On February 8, Tencent Cloud announced a major innovation by integrating the DeepSeek R1 and V3 original models via API into its large model knowledge engine, supporting online search functionality. This move makes Tencent Cloud the first cloud service provider in the country to achieve such capability, providing a new solution for the rapid construction and deployment of enterprise-level AI applications.

On January 15, 2025, Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd. announced the official release of the new multimodal image understanding model moonshot-v1-vision-preview. This model enhances the multimodal capabilities of the moonshot-v1 model series, helping Kimi better understand the world. The Vision model boasts powerful image recognition capabilities, accurately identifying complex details and subtle differences in images, distinguishing similar yet different objects, whether they are food or animals.

Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that its self-developed visual generation large model, Kling AI, version 1.6, has now opened its API. This announcement marks a further enhancement in the quality of generation, providing users with a more stable and high-quality content creation experience. The Kling AI V1.6 model performs exceptionally well in responding to text descriptions related to motion, sequential actions, and camera movements, significantly improving text responsiveness, which greatly increases the success rate of generating advertising video materials. Additionally, the model excels in maintaining style and color rendering.

During a continuous 12-day live event, OpenAI released the O1 model API to developers on the 9th day and announced significant upgrades to the real-time API, supporting WebRTC technology. Starting from the release date, OpenAI will provide access to the O1 API for developers at usage level 5. Compared to the previous preview version, this updated O1 model API achieves a 60% reduction in thinking costs and adds advanced visual processing capabilities. Meanwhile, GPT-4o has improved in audio processing.

Recently, Kimi Open Platform launched the moonshot-v1-auto Model API, which automatically selects the optimal model to save costs. Additionally, it has updated features such as account password login, phone number replacement, and balance warning functions to enhance user experience. In the future, a connected search function will be introduced to strengthen API capabilities and provide developers with more innovative opportunities.

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that it will provide the API interface for its GLM-4-Flash large language model free to the public to promote the popularization and application of large model technology. The GLM-4-Flash model shows significant advantages in speed and performance, particularly in inference speed, by employing adaptive weight quantization and parallel processing technologies.