Baidu recently quietly launched an emotional companion app called "Yuexia." The app centers around high-freedom AI dialogue and immersive script interactions, aiming to explore new directions in the entertainment and social fields.

Manus, an AI Agent product from Chinese startup Monica, has recently gained traction on X. Its founder, Ji Yichao, today shared further technical details via social media. According to Ji, Manus is built upon Alibaba's Qwen large language model and leverages various fine-tuned models to achieve its unique functionalities. This revelation has sparked industry discussion regarding Manus's technological origins and further ignited global AI community interest in its potential.

GPU cloud services company CoreWeave recently announced a five-year, $119 billion strategic partnership agreement with OpenAI. Under the agreement, CoreWeave will provide OpenAI with the necessary computing power to support the training and delivery of its AI models. This significant deal marks a deepening collaboration between the two companies in the field of artificial intelligence. As part of the collaboration, CoreWeave will also issue $3...

At the recent Human [X] conference, Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at AI startup Anthropic, revealed the company has no plans to enter the hardware or consumer entertainment market. Instead, Anthropic is concentrating on developing general foundation models for enterprise use. As the developer of Claude AI, Anthropic, backed by Amazon and Google, aims to provide practical AI solutions across various industries. Krieger stated that Anthropic...

The artificial intelligence market is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. According to a recent comprehensive report from the Poe platform, the competitive landscape in the AI field has shifted significantly in early 2025, with emerging companies rapidly eroding the market share of established giants. Poe, a platform hosting over 100 AI models, leverages interaction data from millions of users over the past year, offering a unique perspective on usage patterns for text, image, and video generation technologies. This typically protected usage data provides invaluable market insights for technology decision-makers. Market fragmentation and the rise of...

According to recent posts on X, DeepSeek's next-generation AI model, DeepSeek R2, is potentially launching on March 17th. This news has generated significant industry buzz, with many believing it could pose a strong challenge to existing AI giants such as Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.7. A post by X user tanvitabs early this morning suggests DeepSeek R2 boasts breakthroughs in several key areas, including improved...

ByteDance's Doubao large model team recently announced a breakthrough in addressing key bottlenecks in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, open-sourcing a significant optimization technology called COMET. This technology dramatically improves large model training efficiency, achieving a remarkable 1.7x speedup and a 40% reduction in training costs. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provider Midjourney. COMET has been deployed in ByteDance's multi-thousand-GPU cluster training, resulting in millions of GPU hours saved.

On March 10th, Zhiyuan Robotics officially launched its first general-purpose embodied base large model – Genie Operator-1 (GO-1). This announcement has garnered significant attention, particularly regarding its potential in home service robots and the new hope it offers for future household management. According to Zhiyuan Robotics' official introduction, the GO-1 large model, trained on a vast amount of human video data, demonstrates excellent performance in executing various household tasks such as delivering cups, preparing meals, and greeting guests. In terms of technical performance,

Recently, the Modelers community officially launched Step-Video and Step-Audio, two open-source multimodal large models developed by Step-Star. These models are designed for video generation and voice interaction, respectively, aiming to provide developers and enterprise users with more powerful AI tools. Step-Video, formally known as Step-Video-T2V, is a 30-billion parameter model, making it the world's largest open-source video generation model. This model can directly generate 20...

Reports indicate that the National Supercomputing Internet Platform has integrated Alibaba's Qwen large language model, officially providing the QwQ-32B API service. Users can access up to 1 million tokens free of charge, offering a valuable opportunity for developers and researchers. QwQ-32B is the latest open-source inference model from Alibaba's Tongyi team, demonstrating excellent performance. According to multiple authoritative benchmark tests, QwQ-32B's capabilities rival those of a fully-fledged 671B model.

According to Qichacha APP, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. recently published a patent for "A Method and Apparatus for Generating AI Models." The patent abstract indicates that this technology, related to the field of artificial intelligence, can improve the efficiency of generating AI models and reduce resource consumption. The method involves: the first processor, based on the execution time of each operator in the multiple operators of the AI model, the memory occupancy of the second memory of the second processor during the operation of each operator, and the memory offloading time, constructs a target optimization with the operation instruction information as the optimization variable.

In a recent podcast, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that AI models are increasingly becoming standardized and commoditized as language models mature. He noted this shift is driving a strategic change in enterprise AI development, moving the focus from model research to system integration and product development. Nadella emphasized that models alone are insufficient; companies need to focus on complete system architecture and successful product creation. He believes the current AI industry is experiencing a "wave-like activity" since November 2022.

Recently, developer scraed released LanPaint on GitHub, a zero-shot image inpainting tool. This tool aims to help users achieve high-quality image inpainting results on any Stable Diffusion (SD) model, including custom-trained models. LanPaint achieves this by iteratively prompting the model to 'think' before denoising, resulting in more seamless and accurate inpainting. A key feature of LanPaint is its zero-shot capability; users can start using it immediately without any training.

2024 was a landmark year for the AI industry. According to TechCrunch, 49 startups secured over $100 million in funding, with seven raising over $1 billion and three securing multiple mega-funding rounds. This momentum continues into 2025. Despite it being early in the year, the number of US AI companies receiving over $100 million in funding is nearing double digits, with at least one round exceeding $1 billion. The following are the companies that have secured over $100 million in funding so far in 2025...

On March 7th, QQ Browser announced the launch of its AI Q&A feature—Yuanbao Quick Answer—designed to provide users with faster and more concise search results. This feature leverages Tencent's HunYuan 'Fast Thinking' model Turbo S, incorporating search enhancement technology to quickly retrieve real-time information from across the web, including high-quality content from official accounts, and automatically extracts key information to deliver clear and concise answers to users.

AI21 Labs has announced the release of Jamba 1.6, a significant upgrade to its large language model that enhances its capabilities in handling long-form text and expands its support to multiple languages.