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Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has announced the formation of a large model team focused on e-commerce recommendations, further strengthening its commitment to AI in the sector. According to recent posts on X, the team is led by a former core member of Baidu's Phoenix Nest (Baidu's advertising system), whose salary is reportedly multiple times higher than at Baidu, demonstrating Pinduoduo's significant investment in talent acquisition. While Pinduoduo has not officially disclosed the leader's identity, an X user @TechBitDaily revealed in a February 23rd post that the team has already recruited numerous individuals from Baidu.

Duolingo, the acclaimed language learning app, announced two major new features at the recent virtual Duocon conference: Adventure Mode and AI Video Calls. This initiative marks a significant step for Duolingo in leveraging advanced technology to enhance the user learning experience. Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn stated, "Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally accessible. These innovations are just the beginning of what we aim to achieve."

Alibaba is fully committed to AI e-commerce by establishing the Taotian Group AI team. Pinduoduo's remarkably high efficiency raises concerns for Alibaba, prompting an urgent need to enhance efficiency. Pinduoduo's social e-commerce model disrupts traditional practices, presenting significant challenges for Alibaba. Both Alibaba and Pinduoduo highly value the application of large models in e-commerce. AI e-commerce has become a new battleground with intense competition between Alibaba and Pinduoduo.

Pinduoduo has established a large model team consisting of dozens of members to explore applications of large models in customer service and dialogue scenarios, extending to intelligent customer service, search, and recommendation in its cross-border e-commerce platform TEMU. Pinduoduo is starting to recruit talent in the large model field, with numerous positions offering annual salaries of over a million. The applications of large models aim to enhance shopping experiences and sales conversion rates, as well as improve operational efficiency and management levels.

GitLab has recently launched Duo Chat, integrating conversational AI into the workflow to simplify the developer experience. Duo Chat allows for natural language conversations within the GitLab platform, providing code explanations, generating tests, and simplifying coding tasks. GitLab emphasizes privacy, using advanced technologies to support the backend of Duo Chat to ensure that user data is not used for AI model training. This tool aims to boost developer productivity by offering comprehensive AI-driven features within a unified platform, streamlining the development workflow.

Google has released its latest English tutoring tool aimed at competing with Duolingo. The tool will be gradually rolled out on Android devices across multiple countries. It offers personalized English speaking practice, grammar, and semantic feedback. Utilizing AI and machine learning technologies, the content is created with the help of linguists and teachers. Google plans to expand it to more countries and languages.

Baidu Pan launched the Yun Yiduo Smart Assistant at the Baidu World 2023 Conference. Yun Yiduo enables voice search and extracts video voice to text, and possesses multimodal information understanding. The number of users has reached 20 million, with technology leading globally. This move will enhance user experience and further elevate the intelligence level of Baidu Pan.

Baidu Cloud Drive has launched the 'Yun Yiduo' intelligent assistant based on the Wenxin large model. 'Yun Yiduo' can quickly search for files and videos, summarize knowledge, translate documents, and meet content creation needs. Users can use voice commands to translate, summarize, convert formats for files, and quickly search for files and videos.