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April 9, 2025: AI research tools have reached a critical breakthrough. Google announced a major upgrade to its highly anticipated Deep Research feature, now powered by the experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro. This model has demonstrated superior performance in industry reasoning benchmarks and Chatbot Arena evaluations, considered by professionals to be one of the most powerful AI models globally. This technological advancement has sparked widespread interest among researchers, technical experts, and industry observers.

Amidst growing global concerns about cybersecurity, Tampa, Florida-based security operations company ReliaQuest announced it has secured over $500 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $3.4 billion. The funding round, led by EQT, KKR, and FTV Capital, marks ReliaQuest's rapid ascendancy in the cybersecurity landscape. This significantly increases ReliaQuest's valuation from the $1 billion valuation achieved in December 2021, demonstrating substantial growth in just a few years.

Zhipu has released CogView4, a groundbreaking open-source image generation model that excels at understanding and responding to Chinese prompts. Users can now generate images using Chinese characters and phrases, marking a significant advancement in multilingual AI image generation.

On February 27, 2025, Trae's official Twitter account @Trae_ai announced the highly anticipated launch of Claude 3.7 on the Trae platform. The news, shared via tweet at 6:30 AM PST, quickly garnered attention from AI enthusiasts and users alike. The tweet read: Claude 3.7 is now available on Trae! Upgrade Trae to the latest version to enhance your AI experience.

On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined his vision for the future of AI-driven technological advancements and global prosperity in a new personal blog post titled 'The Era of Intelligence.' The article paints a picture of artificial intelligence accelerating human progress, with Altman believing that superintelligent AI could emerge within the next decade. Altman stated, 'We may see the emergence of superintelligence in thousands of days; while it may take longer, I am optimistic about achieving this goal.'

The fourth-generation CodeGeeX model, developed by ZhiPu AI, has been officially released and made open source.This model is the most powerful and versatile code generation large model with parameters below 10B, having been updated every six months since the first generation was released in 2014, and is dedicated to improving code generation capabilities. CodeGeeX offers basic functions such as code completion, comments, fixes, and translation, as well as advanced features like connected Q&A, co

The domestic artificial intelligence sector is witnessing new fluctuations as Zhipu AI announces a special migration plan for OpenAI API users, offering a massive token giveaway and comprehensive technical support to encourage developers to transition to its platform. This initiative not only showcases Zhipu AI's ambitions in the domestic AI market but also signifies potential changes in the global AI competitive landscape.

Recently, Zhihua, Tsinghua University, and Peking University collaborated to launch a long video understanding benchmark project called LVBench. While existing multimodal large language models have made significant progress in understanding short videos, they still face challenges when dealing with long videos that can last for hours. LVBench was created to fill this gap.

Zhipu has announced the launch of the GLM-4-9B series models, which include base models, Chat models with varying context lengths, and vision models, fully surpassing LLaMA 3 8B. The GLM-4-9B series models have been open-sourced on GitHub, attracting significant attention from developers and researchers. The release of this series is considered another important breakthrough for Zhipu in the field of artificial intelligence.

AI researchers generally believe that the development of superintelligent AI poses an insignificant yet very small risk of human extinction. The largest survey of AI researchers shows that about 58% of them believe there is a 5% chance of leading to human extinction or other extreme negative AI-related outcomes. Researchers have a wide range of disagreements over the timeline for future AI technological milestones and feel uncertain about the social consequences that AI may bring. The survey also reveals the urgent concerns AI researchers have regarding AI-driven scenarios such as deepfakes, manipulation of public opinion, and weaponization.

The President of Microsoft stated that there will be no superintelligent AGI in the near term, emphasizing the importance of AI safety. Concerns have been raised regarding OpenAI's pursuit of breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence. Brad Smith denied claims about dangerous breakthroughs, stressing the need to focus on AI safety issues at this stage.

Royal Astronomers in the UK warn that alien life may be more artificially intelligent than we expect. Extraterrestrial intelligent life could be non-organic intelligence, explaining why the universe lacks life similar to ours. Alien beings may be remote electronic descendants of other organic life forms, making them difficult to detect.

SambaNova has launched its intelligent AI chip SN40L, which can run models with up to 50 trillion parameters while maintaining model accuracy. The SN40L chip is manufactured by TSMC and provides over 256k sequence length for a single system node, enhancing model quality and inference speed through integrated technology. SambaNova's full-stack large language model (LLM) platform will be powered by the SN40L chip, addressing the challenges enterprises face in deploying generative artificial intelligence. The uniqueness of the SN40L chip lies in its simultaneous processing capabilities.