On January 23, 2025, the world's first publicly accessible, ready-to-use computer intelligent agent, GLM-PC, was upgraded again, attracting widespread attention. GLM-PC is based on the multimodal large model CogAgent, capable of 'observing' and 'operating' the computer like a human, assisting users in efficiently completing various computer tasks.

On January 22, 2025, Volcano Engine, a subsidiary of ByteDance, officially announced the release of Doubao Large Model 1.5, which is now fully available on the Volcano Ark platform. The newly released Doubao Large Model 1.5 has achieved significant performance improvements across multiple domains, reaching a globally leading level of comprehensive capabilities, marking another important breakthrough for ByteDance in the field of artificial intelligence.

In today's development of artificial intelligence (AI), the speed of data transmission has become a significant bottleneck hindering its progress. To break through this barrier, a research team led by the University of Michigan (U-M) is developing a brand new chip connection system that uses optical waves instead of traditional cables for data transmission. This innovation is expected to address the 'memory wall' problem that limits computational speed and promote further growth of AI models. The project has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Future Semiconductor program, with participation from the University of Washington and Penn State.

Google Research recently announced the innovative 'Titans' series model architecture, achieving a groundbreaking 2 million token context length through bionic design, with plans to open-source related technologies in the future. The core innovation of this architecture is the introduction of a Deep Neural Long-Term Memory Module, inspired by the human memory system. Titans cleverly combines the rapid response capability of short-term memory with the persistence characteristics of long-term memory, while utilizing an attention mechanism to handle immediate context, forming an efficient information processing system.

Recently, Doubao Company announced the launch of its new real-time voice large model, claiming to achieve a "cliff-like lead" in Chinese dialogue, marking a significant enhancement in AI conversational capabilities. This model is fully available in the Doubao App (version 7.2.0 New Year Edition), providing users with a richer and more authentic voice communication experience. According to reports, Doubao's real-time voice large model has achieved a deep integration of speech understanding and generation, forming an end-to-end voice dialogue system. This technological breakthrough allows the model to excel in vocal expressiveness, control, and emotion.

Recently, researchers at Concordia University launched a new research project called 'Abundant Intelligences,' aimed at reexamining the development direction of artificial intelligence (AI). The project points out that the current development model of AI has inherent biases against non-Western conceptions of intelligence, particularly in relation to indigenous cultures. The goal of the project is to integrate indigenous knowledge systems to construct an inclusive and comprehensive concept of intelligence and intelligent behavior, thereby promoting the development of future technologies.

Recently, Nvidia announced the addition of three safety features on its NeMo Guardrails platform, aimed at helping businesses better manage and control AI chatbots. These microservices target common challenges in AI safety and content moderation, offering a range of practical solutions. Among them, the Content Safety service can review content before the AI responds to users, detecting any potential harmful information. This service helps prevent...

Nvidia has recently released three new NIM (Nvidia Infrastructure Microservices) designed as an extension of the NeMo Guardrails open-source toolkit, aimed at providing more refined security control capabilities for enterprise AI agent applications. Each of these new services has distinct features: the first focuses on content safety to prevent harmful or biased content generated by AI; the second ensures that conversations are limited to approved topics; and the third prevents AI agents from circumventing system restrictions or jailbreaking.

Beijing Zhiyuan Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced on January 16, 2025, the launch of a series of new models and their availability on bigmodel.cn. Following the release of 'Zhiyuan Qingtalk' in August, the company has delved deeper into the understanding and generation of language, speech, images, and videos, introducing multimodal models such as GLM-Voice, GLM-4V, CogView, and CogVideoX.

Today, iFLYTEK officially launched its latest research and development achievement, the Starfire simultaneous translation voice model, marking the debut of the first domestic large model with end-to-end speech simultaneous translation capabilities. This innovative technology has significantly improved the translation performance across all scenes compared to iFLYTEK's previous translation technologies, and has greatly shortened the end-to-end response time.

Recently, Alibaba Damo Academy launched a multi-modal large language model named Valley 2, designed for e-commerce scenarios. It aims to enhance performance across various fields and expand the application boundaries of e-commerce and short video scenarios through a scalable vision-language architecture. Valley 2 utilizes Qwen 2.5 as its LLM backbone, paired with the SigLIP-384 visual encoder, incorporating MLP layers and convolution for efficient feature transformation.

Microsoft has recently upgraded its classic Paint app with a new AI-powered eraser feature, making it easier for users to work with images. The core of this feature lies in the ability for users to simply circle the elements they want to delete, and the AI will automatically recognize and erase them, significantly simplifying the traditional image processing workflow. After two months of testing, this new feature has been officially rolled out to all users. Users can enjoy this feature for free by upgrading to the latest version in the Microsoft Store. However, it is worth noting that because the AI model requires