According to Bloomberg, developer tool company StackBlitz Inc. is in discussions with investors and plans to raise funds at a valuation of $700 million. The company's CEO Eric Simons stated that the deal will be led by Emergence Capital and GV (formerly Google Ventures), with StackBlitz expecting to raise $83.5 million. The funding will also involve Madrona Venture Group, Con.

Recently, ByteDance launched an AI integrated development environment (IDE) called Trae, aimed specifically at Chinese developers. This product is designed to compete with internationally renowned tools such as Cursor and Windsurf, particularly focusing on the user experience of Chinese developers. In their daily programming, many developers often need to switch between English and Chinese. This mixed-language working mode, while common, poses inconveniences for many Chinese developers. Existing IDEs such as

In recent years, the programming capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been continuously evolving, but they have not yet reached perfection. Recently, Max Woolf, a senior data scientist at BuzzFeed, discovered through experiments that if continuous prompts for 'writing better code' are provided to large language models (LLMs), AI can indeed generate higher quality code. This finding has garnered widespread attention, with renowned AI scientists emphasizing the importance of iteration and prompt design. In Woolf's experiment,

In the field of artificial intelligence, ByteDance's commercial technology team presents the latest achievement, the Infinity model, which has become a new leader in the auto-regressive text-to-image generation domain with its outstanding performance and innovative technology. This newly open-sourced model not only surpasses Stable Diffusion 3 in image generation quality but also demonstrates significant advantages in inference speed. The core innovation of the Infinity model lies in its use of a Bitwise Token auto-regressive framework, which predicts the next level of resolution by +1 or -1.

The highly anticipated Deepseek V3 is finally open source! This brand-new AI model has achieved significant breakthroughs in multilingual programming capabilities, even outperforming competitors like Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2 in the aider multilingual programming assessment, attracting widespread attention in the industry. It is reported that Deepseek V3 has made a qualitative leap in performance compared to previous versions. Deepseek V2.5 had a success rate of only 17% in the aider assessment, while V3 has surged to 4.

After 12 days of technical sharing livestream events, OpenAI released its next-generation inference model o3 on the final day. This is an upgrade following the earlier release of the o1 inference model. The o3 model series includes o3 and o3-mini, with o3-mini being a smaller, streamlined version fine-tuned for specific tasks. OpenAI stated that the o3 model could approach the realization of artificial general intelligence (AGI) under certain conditions, meaning artificial intelligence capable of performing any task that a human can accomplish.

Well-known AI assistant Grammarly recently announced its acquisition of productivity platform Coda, marking an important step for Grammarly towards becoming an AI productivity platform. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed through provider Midjourney. Coda's CEO and co-founder Shishir Mehrotra will take over as the new CEO of Grammarly. This acquisition will combine Coda's flexible and powerful AI.

In a recent series of Threads posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri emphasized the need for social media users to be vigilant in the face of the growing prevalence of AI-generated content. He pointed out that the images and information users see online may not be real, as AI technology is now capable of creating content that closely resembles reality. To help users better assess the authenticity of information, Mosseri mentioned that users should consider the source of the content, and social platforms also bear responsibility.