AI drug development company Genesis Therapeutics recently announced that it has secured additional investment from Nvidia's venture capital arm, NVentures, though the specific amount remains undisclosed. This move marks a further deepening of the collaboration between the two parties, aimed at accelerating the development of Genesis's AI platform GEMS (Genesis Exploration of Molecular Space), which focuses on utilizing physics-based AI for structure-driven drug design.

AI startup Writer has recently launched its innovative AI model—Palmyra Creative, which aims to completely transform how businesses handle creative tasks. Unlike the rigid outputs of traditional AI models, Palmyra Creative encourages originality through a novel architecture design, avoiding the monotony often associated with generated content, marking a significant breakthrough for businesses in the field of generative AI. The Chief Technology Officer of Writer stated in an interview that the outputs of current AI models often result in

For a long time, Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo have been the leaders in the field of image editing. However, in recent years, the industry landscape has begun to quietly change. Many creators are starting to abandon Adobe products in favor of more affordable alternatives. At the same time, some are embracing image editing tools centered around AI technology. Topaz Labs Photo AI and Photoroom are among the front runners in this shift.

Recently, xAI announced a major upgrade to its Grok AI chatbot, promising significant enhancements in performance, even claiming it can compete with Sonnet3.5, particularly in prompt-following capabilities. The upgraded Grok-2 is now available for free to all X platform users, with paid users benefiting from higher usage limits and additional features. According to xAI, Grok-2 is three times faster than its predecessor and has also seen notable improvements in accuracy and language support.

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in the field of natural language processing (NLP), widely applicable in scenarios such as text generation, summarization, and question answering. However, these models rely on a token-level processing method that predicts word by word, which struggles with contextual understanding and often leads to inconsistent outputs. Moreover, when scaling LLMs to multilingual and multimodal applications, the computational costs and data requirements tend to be relatively high. To address these issues, Meta AI has proposed a novel approach.

The Kimi AI assistant under The Dark Side of the Moon has launched a new feature - the Visual Thinking Edition. This update enables Kimi to perform detailed observations and in-depth analysis of images sent by users, revealing the secrets behind the pictures. Users can now directly ask Kimi questions, utilizing its visual thinking capability to resolve their doubts.

Swiss robotics company Anybotics has recently announced an additional investment of $60 million in its Series B funding, bringing the total raised in this round to $110 million. This follows just 18 months after the company first announced receiving $50 million in Series B funding. Anybotics was spun off from ETH Zurich in 2016, focusing on the development of a quadrupedal autonomous inspection robot called Anymal. Anymal is equipped with various sensors.

In a recent interview, Microsoft's AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed a notable disparity regarding the timeline for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Altman stated in a Reddit Q&A that AGI could be realized with the current hardware conditions, while Suleyman was skeptical, arguing that the current hardware technology is insufficient to support the development of AGI.

The Japanese government is vigorously advancing its strategic layout for the chip and artificial intelligence industries. This fiscal year, the government will allocate an additional 1.5 trillion yen (approximately $9.9 billion) in a special budget targeting cutting-edge technology fields such as next-generation chips and quantum computers. This budget is divided into two important parts: 1.05 trillion yen will be used for the research and development of next-generation chips and quantum computers, while 471.4 billion yen will focus on supporting domestic advanced chip production. Notably, the 'moon landing plan' of Rapidus is drawing attention, although details are still pending.

In the wave of technological innovation, Hong Kong startup Vidi Labs has launched a groundbreaking device—Seekr, a black technology tool poised to completely transform the lives of visually impaired individuals. This device, no bigger than a matchbox, is not just a simple assistive tool but a pair of "smart eyes" that can "speak". Its creation stems from a warm yet somewhat regretful story: during the pandemic in 2020, founder Turzo Bose discovered that his visually impaired grandfather could not receive visits from family and friends due to social distancing restrictions.

Recently, Alibaba announced the open sourcing of its latest image generation model, Qwen2vl-Flux. This model not only features a variety of functionalities such as editing, fusion, and mixing, but it can also generate highly similar new images based on user-input images or text. Qwen2vl-Flux provides powerful image transformation capabilities. Users simply need to input an image without any text prompts, and the model can generate multiple similar images based on the original. For example, if a user uploads a portrait photo, the model can generate multiple angles.

In the vast starry sky of technological innovation, there exists a courageous group of explorers. They have not only won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for predicting protein structures using artificial intelligence but have also redefined our understanding of complex molecular computation in the realm of quantum computing. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) are like "magicians" of the quantum world, using a revolutionary approach to completely overturn the limitations of traditional quantum computing. Their secret weapon? A high-dimensional quantum information unit known as "qudit." Source of the image: Image generated by AI.