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.

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.