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Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming protein discovery and design in biotechnology. Recently, a collaborative team from UC Berkeley and Caltech developed ProteinDT, a novel multimodal framework leveraging text descriptions to aid in protein design. This innovative approach integrates protein sequence and structural information with a wealth of biological knowledge represented in text, opening a new chapter in protein design.

OpenAI's recently launched image generation feature for ChatGPT has garnered significant attention and usage. However, this popularity has presented challenges. OpenAI founder Sam Altman revealed that the surge in demand has nearly overwhelmed the company's GPU capacity, stating that the GPUs are "smoking." This has led to rate limits being implemented on the image generation feature.

On March 27th, Alibaba launched its first multimodal large model, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B. This model boasts powerful capabilities, handling various input modalities such as text, images, audio, and video, and generating text and natural speech outputs in real-time. This innovative technological breakthrough marks another significant advancement for Alibaba in the field of artificial intelligence. In the authoritative OmniBench multimodal fusion task benchmark, Qwen2.5-Omni achieved...

The Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen Qwen team announced the launch of Qwen2.5-Omni, a new generation of end-to-end multimodal flagship model in the Qwen family. Designed for comprehensive multimodal understanding, this new model seamlessly handles various input formats including text, images, audio, and video, and generates text and natural speech synthesis outputs simultaneously via real-time streaming response.

Alibaba is making waves in the AI field with the recent open-source release of its latest multimodal model, Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct. This model is part of the Qwen2.5 series, which also includes 3B, 7B, and 72B versions. The 32B version prioritizes convenient local execution while maintaining performance. Enhanced through reinforcement learning, Qwen2.5-VL-32B excels in several areas. Notably, its responses are more aligned with human expectations.

In geoscience, geological maps are crucial tools for understanding the Earth's surface and subsurface structures. However, interpreting these complex diagrams requires specialized knowledge and extensive experience. To enhance intelligence in this field, Microsoft Research Asia recently introduced GeoMap-Bench, a new benchmark dataset for evaluating the performance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in understanding geological maps. The launch of GeoMap-Bench marks a significant step forward in AI applications for geological map interpretation. Microsoft researchers, in collaboration with...

Chongqing No.1 Social Welfare Institute, in collaboration with the Chongqing Ma Shang Technology Development Foundation, has launched the nation's first large-model elderly care robot. Officially deployed on March 10th, this marks a new step for Chongqing in smart elderly care and special group care services, ushering in a new era of "human-computer collaboration." This care robot integrates advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and AI psychology, constructing a comprehensive service system encompassing five modules and ten functions. These modules cover intelligent emotional companionship and digital literacy enhancement.

Transforming complex documents into structured data has long been a challenging problem in computer science. Previous approaches involved cumbersome multi-model pipelines or massive, hallucination-prone, and expensive multimodal models. However, IBM and Hugging Face have recently introduced SmolDocling, a lightweight 256M parameter open-source Vision-Language Model (VLM)...

Kunlun Wanwei has open-sourced its Skywork R1V multimodal reasoning model, marking a significant advancement in Chinese AI capabilities. This powerful model represents a major leap forward in the field.

Kunlun Wanwei has officially released Skywork R1V (referred to as "R1V"), the world's first industrial-grade multimodal reasoning model. This 3.8 billion parameter model's performance is close to the well-known closed-source model DeepSeek-R1, and even surpasses it in several benchmark tests, outperforming a series of current state-of-the-art (SOTA) technologies. Kunlun Wanwei's decision to open-source R1V aims to promote technology sharing and progress, injecting new vitality into the global AI open-source community. R1V is distinguished by its superior multimodal reasoning capabilities.

Another chapter in the expansion of Silicon Valley tech giants! Elon Musk's xAI company today announced the acquisition of Hotshot, a startup focused on AI-powered video generation. This strategic acquisition will inject new vitality into xAI's multimodal AI technology. Hotshot CEO Aakash Sastry officially announced the news on the X platform, but did not disclose the specific transaction amount. Previously backed by investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and SV Angel...

Baidu recently launched its latest Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1 large models, both available for free trial on the Ernie Bot official website. Ernie 4.5, Baidu's first native multimodal large model, excels in multimodal understanding and logical reasoning, outperforming GPT-4.5 in various benchmark tests. Its API price is only 1% of GPT-4.5's, attracting significant attention from developers and businesses. Ernie 4.5 demonstrates remarkable advancements in multimodal understanding, showcasing...

Android Studio now integrates Gemini, enabling developers to upload images and receive corresponding UI code. This new multimodal functionality simplifies UI development by leveraging AI-powered image processing and code generation.

Alibaba has announced the launch of its flagship AI application, New Quark. Built upon Alibaba Tongyi's leading reasoning and multimodal large models, New Quark is a comprehensively upgraded, boundless "AI Super Box." New Quark boasts powerful reasoning capabilities and enables multimodal interaction, allowing users to interact with AI in real-time. The AI will think and act based on user needs, continuously adjusting strategies to ensure task completion. This innovative design provides users with both convenience and an engaging experience.

On March 13th, Alibaba officially launched its AI flagship application—New Quark. This newly upgraded Quark, built upon Alibaba Tongyi's leading reasoning and multimodal large models, creates a boundless AI Super Box, offering users a brand-new AI experience.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at a launch event that Google has open-sourced its latest multimodal large model, Gemma-3. This model is attracting significant attention for its low cost and high performance. Gemma-3 offers four different parameter scale options: 1 billion, 4 billion, 12 billion, and 27 billion parameters. Surprisingly, the largest 27 billion parameter model only requires a single H100 GPU for efficient inference, while similar models often require ten times the computing power.

According to Phoenix Technology, Luo Yihang recently joined Shengshu Technology as CEO, assuming full responsibility for the company's R&D, product development, commercialization, and team management. Holding a doctorate in Automation from Tsinghua University, he has over a decade of experience in cloud computing and AI, possessing a strong technical background and commercialization expertise. Before joining Shengshu Technology, Luo served as the head of ByteDance's Volcano Engine AI application product line, reporting directly to the president of Volcano Engine. It's understood that he built this product line from the ground up, overseeing numerous AI-related products and managing a team of hundreds. Previously, he also participated in...