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X-ORIGIN-AI (Xuan Yuan Technology), a consumer-grade AI robot company, recently announced it has completed a Pre-A round of financing totaling nearly 100 million yuan. The round was led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with participation from Kingtop Capital and Lenovo Star, and Renchen Capital served as the financial advisor. This funding accelerates X-ORIGIN-AI's development in AI hardware and affective interaction, showcasing its breakthroughs in the development of emotionally intelligent AI products. X-ORIGIN-AI is dedicated to breaking the limitations of traditional AI tools and pushing human-computer interaction from a 'tool-based' to an 'emotionally intelligent' approach.

According to Artificial Analysis, a third-party AI testing agency, evaluating OpenAI's o1 inference model across seven popular benchmarks costs $2,767.05, while its non-inference model GPT-4o costs only $108.85. This significant disparity sparks discussion regarding the sustainability and transparency of AI evaluation. Inference models, AI systems capable of step-by-step reasoning to solve problems, while excelling in specific domains, incur significantly higher benchmarking costs than traditional models. Arti...

Yuanding Intelligent recently completed a strategic financing round of nearly 1 billion RMB (approximately $100 million USD). This round was led by Fluidra, a major player in the pool industry, with participation from new investor Yunqi Capital and existing investors. This financing marks a strategic turning point for Yuanding Intelligent, enabling it to penetrate global professional pool channels and transition from online leadership to full-channel penetration. Fluidra, with over 50 years of industry experience and operations spanning 47 countries, boasts well-known brands across Europe and America. Its global distribution network and other resources will support Yuanding Intelligent's transformation. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midjourney.

From April 1st to 18th, approximately 100,000 ninth-grade students in Wuhan participated in their physical education entrance examination. This year's exam introduced a new AI intelligent judging system, marking a significant shift in physical examination assessment. Traditionally, physical education exams relied on manual timing and scoring. This year's exam utilized intelligent devices and cloud management to ensure fairness and efficiency. The exam incorporated several AI technologies, including facial recognition, electronic distance measurement, and wireless sensing, covering 14 items across three categories.

Joelle Pineau, Meta's Vice President of AI Research, announced on Tuesday via Facebook that she plans to leave the company in May. A highly respected leader within Meta's AI research lab (FAIR) for over two years, she oversaw the company's innovation and development in AI. Pineau's departure comes at a crucial time for Meta, as the company plans to invest up to $65 billion in AI by 2025.

Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research, announced on Tuesday via a Facebook post that she will be leaving her position at Meta in May. Pineau has served as the head of Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab for the past two years, leading the lab's cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence. FAIR is a core internal research team at Meta, led by renowned scientist Yann LeCun. Pineau's departure comes as Meta...

NetEase Youdao officially launched its new AI hardware product, the Youdao OpenEar open-ear headphones, at the Zhongguancun HardTech Carnival in Beijing. These headphones have attracted significant attention from tech enthusiasts and media outlets alike, thanks to their unique open-ear design, high-value audio quality, and convenient smart interaction features.

According to a recent Bloomberg report, OpenAI is close to finalizing a massive $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, marking the largest funding round in the history of the AI industry. This funding is expected to significantly boost OpenAI's valuation to approximately $300 billion, nearly double its valuation in October 2023. SoftBank will be the lead investor, initially committing $7.5 billion, with several other investment firms participating, including Magnetar Capital.

Tesla held a surprise all-hands meeting this morning at 9:30 AM Beijing time, highlighting recent company achievements. CEO Elon Musk revealed several key advancements during the meeting, sparking widespread interest. Musk announced that the Tesla Model Y has become the world's best-selling car, showcasing its leading position in the electric vehicle market. He also stated that the team is progressing as planned with the construction of the Semi Truck factory, demonstrating Tesla's ambition in the commercial vehicle sector. The meeting was livestreamed, with Musk focusing on the latest developments of the Optimus robot.

After a nearly year-long pause, Meta has announced the return of its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to the European market. Starting this week, Meta AI will be rolled out across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 41 European countries and 21 other regions, but initially only with text-based chat functionality. Meta AI initially launched in the US in 2023. Although Meta had planned to bring the assistant to Europe, it was delayed due to concerns in Ireland.

At Adobe's 2024 MAX Creativity Conference in Las Vegas, Adobe unveiled Project Slide Wow, a groundbreaking generative AI tool designed to revolutionize PowerPoint presentation creation. Users can effortlessly generate compelling presentations directly from raw customer data. Showcased as part of the highly anticipated Adobe Sneaks program, Project Slide Wow promises a seamless and efficient way to produce professional-quality presentations without any coding knowledge.

EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company, has secured almost $500 million in funding to build and operate environmentally friendly data centers specifically designed for the growing demands of artificial intelligence. This investment signifies a major step towards a more sustainable future for the AI industry.

A recent scam involving AI-generated fake videos featuring the YouTube CEO has been exposed. Content creators are urged to be vigilant and aware of this emerging threat.

Alibaba officially announced the launch of its 2026 Spring Internship recruitment drive, opening over 3000 positions. Nearly 50% of these roles are related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some departments show an even stronger AI focus, with approximately 65% in AutoNavi (Amap) and over 80% in Alibaba Cloud. This reflects Alibaba's growing emphasis on AI technology. The recruitment drive spans multiple departments including Alibaba Group Holding, Alibaba Cloud, AutoNavi, Tongyi Lab, Ele.me, and Lynx.

The 360Zhiniao team, in collaboration with Peking University, officially released the medium-sized inference model Tiny-R1-32B-Preview. This model, with only 5% of the parameters, successfully approaches the full performance of Deepseek-R1-671B, demonstrating the enormous potential of small models in efficient inference. The model's performance is particularly outstanding in several key areas. In mathematics, Tiny-R1-32B-Preview...

Recently, AI programming startup Codeium is undergoing a new funding round, with a valuation close to $2.85 billion. According to sources, this funding round is led by investment firm Kleiner Perkins, marking another occasion where Codeium has garnered investor attention after six months. Notably, in the past six months, Codeium completed a $150 million Series C funding round, with a post-funding valuation of $1.25 billion. Although the specific amount for the new funding round has not been disclosed yet.

Recently, Rabbit released a blog post and a video showcasing the features of its 'Versatile Android Agent.' This agent can control applications on Android tablets, demonstrating capabilities that were lacking in the promised Rabbit R1 device from a year ago. While the Humane AI Pin has faced setbacks, Rabbit seems to be moving forward. During this demonstration, engineers did not use the Rabbit R1 device.