According to Daily Economic News, the DeepSeek App has achieved an astonishing milestone by surpassing 100 million downloads within its first month of launch. The app was officially released on January 11, 2025, and data from QuestMobile indicates that as of February 9, the total downloads of the DeepSeek App exceeded 110 million, with peak weekly active users approaching 97 million. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image provided by Midjourney.

According to several sources close to ByteDance, the company's AI core department Seed is undergoing rapid strategic adjustments and personnel changes. Dr. Wu Yonghui, a prominent AI expert who recently joined ByteDance from Google and was involved in the development of Gemini, will replace the original head of the LLM team and Seed, Zhu Wenjia, becoming the new head of the Seed department. Currently, the team is restructuring and adjusting reporting relationships.

The renowned AI art tool Midjourney today announced a range of important organizational feature updates for its website platform, aimed at significantly enhancing user management and the efficiency of organizing images. The core of this update lies in the introduction of a more sophisticated folder system. Users can now enjoy improved folder grouping capabilities and can create new content directly within folders. This improvement makes it more intuitive and convenient to classify and archive images. Additionally, Midjourney has optimized the workflow for handling images across different pages.

With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence technology, OpenAI has demonstrated strong growth momentum in the market. OpenAI's COO, Brad Lightcap, revealed in an interview that as of February this year, the weekly active user count for the popular product ChatGPT has reached 400 million, a 33% increase from 300 million users in December last year. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. Lightcap stated that ChatG

At the recent 'Invest Karnataka 2025' conference held in Bangalore, numerous leaders from the technology industry gathered to discuss the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in India and its impacts. Manish Gupta, Senior Director at Google DeepMind, delivered a key speech at the conference, emphasizing the need to establish corresponding regulations alongside technological innovation to ensure responsible development. Note: Image generated by AI, image courtesy service provider Midjourney.

Recently, Netflix sparked widespread controversy for its use of AI technology to recreate the voice of the late social media influencer Gabby Petito in its new true crime documentary, 'American Murder: The Family of Gabby Petito.' Gabby was tragically murdered by her fiancé Brian Laundrie in August 2021. At the beginning of the documentary, viewers noticed a notice stating that Petito's diary and text messages would be rendered through voice reproduction technology in her voice. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Mid.

The autopsy report of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji has recently been handed over to his family. However, Balaji's relatives express skepticism regarding the conclusion of suicide and have stated that they submitted a strange hair sample found in his apartment to the laboratory for testing. Note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is licensed by Midjourney. According to the reports released jointly by the city coroner and police, investigators found no evidence or information at the scene that could definitively determine the cause and manner of Balaji's death.

OpenAI is exploring a new plan aimed at protecting its control after transitioning to a for-profit entity. This decision is primarily in response to possible hostile takeovers, particularly threats from billionaire Musk. OpenAI was originally a nonprofit organization; in the context of rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology, it decided to shift to a for-profit model to attract more investment and funding. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, with image licensing provided by Midjourney, for which OpenAI is considering special voting rights for its nonprofit board.

According to media reports, the Foshan Artificial Intelligence Application Empowerment Center has successfully completed the deployment of DeepSeek, further enhancing the center's service capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence. According to the Foshan Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, this deployment relies on the technological strength of Guangdong Unicom, ensuring seamless adaptation of DeepSeek to domestic and mainstream computing architectures. The empowerment center supports the localized deployment of two fully functional models, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3, leveraging strong technical capabilities.

Dark Side of the Moon researcher Flood Sung recently published a lengthy article, revealing for the first time the development ideas behind the k1.5 model and deeply reflecting on the technological insights brought by the OpenAI o1 model. According to Flood Sung, the importance of Long-CoT (Long Chain of Thought) was actually validated over a year ago by Tim Zhou Xinyu, co-founder of the Dark Side of the Moon. By training small models for multi-digit calculations and transforming the fine-grained calculation processes into Long Chain of Thought data for SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning).

According to a message released by the 'Baidu Search' public account on February 16, Baidu Search and the Wenxin Smart Agent platform will integrate DeepSeek and the deep search capabilities of the Wenxin large model to provide users with a higher quality search experience. The DeepSeek deep search function officially launched on February 13, featuring powerful planning and tool-calling capabilities. This new functionality aims to provide users with expert-level content responses and can handle multi-scenario task requirements, including support for multi-modal inputs and outputs. This means that users not only can...