2025 has brought continuous surprises to China's humanoid robot sector. On March 11th, Zhiyuan Robotics officially launched the bipedal intelligent interactive humanoid robot, Lingxi X2, capable of riding scooters, balance bikes, bicycles, and even sewing grapes. Furthermore, at the 2025 Embodied AI Robot Development Conference, Wang Tianyou, Vice President of Tianjin University, stated that the global humanoid robot market is expected to see an annual growth rate exceeding 30% over the next five years. By 2030, China's humanoid robot market is projected to approach a trillion yuan scale. Qichacha data shows that currently in China...

Alibaba has open-sourced Babel, a powerful multilingual large language model capable of supporting 25 languages and impacting nearly 90% of the world's population. This release aims to democratize access to advanced AI technologies globally.

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) large language model technology in recent years has led to a price war intensifying market competition. DataBao's latest statistics indicate this downward price trend will continue in 2025. Recently, companies like ByteDance and Alibaba Cloud have announced price reductions for their AI large language models, attracting significant industry attention. For example, ByteDance's Doubao large language model announced a price cut in December last year, reducing the price of its visual understanding model to 0.003 yuan/thousand tokens.

In the AI industry, Together AI recently announced the completion of a $305 million Series B funding round, which has garnered widespread attention. The company's rise is closely related to its newly launched deep reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1. Contrary to initial concerns, many industry experts believe that advancements in deep reasoning have not diminished the demand for infrastructure; rather, they are continuously enhancing this demand. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjourney since its establishment in 2023.

On February 17, the Opera team under Kunlun Wanwei integrated the DeepSeek R1 series models into Opera Developer, achieving local personalized deployment. This move marks a further expansion of Opera in the application of AI technology, providing users with more powerful local AI capabilities.

According to reports, Alibaba recently announced a large-scale recruitment drive, aiming to open hundreds of job positions, with 90% of the roles related to artificial intelligence (AI). This initiative primarily focuses on Alibaba's AI To C business, which is the consumer-facing artificial intelligence business system, covering multiple products and teams, including Quark, Tongyi, a spin-off from Alibaba Cloud, and the Tmall Genie team. The recruitment will specifically target talents in cutting-edge technologies and applications such as text processing, multimodal large models, and AI agents.

Today, Baidu officially released its financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year ended December 31, 2024. The data shows that in the fourth quarter of 2024, Baidu achieved revenue of 34.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year decline of 2%; total annual revenue reached 133.1 billion yuan, down 1% year-on-year. The net profit attributable to Baidu for the fourth quarter was 5.2 billion yuan, with a non-GAAP net profit of 6.7 billion yuan; the total annual net profit attributable to Baidu was 23.8 billion yuan, with a non-GAAP net profit of 27 billion yuan.

The graphics card market is about to enter a new round of intense competition. Nvidia has high hopes for its upcoming RTX5070 graphics card, claiming its performance can rival the RTX4090, with a price tag of only $549. However, whether this claim holds true remains to be seen in the market. Nvidia initially planned to release the RTX5070 in February, but according to the latest information revealed on its product page today, the release date has been postponed to March 5. Nevertheless, Nvidia still intends to launch sales on February 20, one week before AMD's scheduled event.