Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai submitted its red herring prospectus to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 14, Eastern Time, officially starting the initial public offering (IPO) process. Pony.ai plans to list on NASDAQ under the stock code 'PONY' with the goal of becoming the 'first global Robotaxi stock.' This IPO will issue 15 million American Depositary Shares (ADS), with a pricing range of $11 to $13 per ADS. If the underwriters fully exercise their over-allotment option...

The artificial intelligence research organization Nous Research has recently launched the Nous Chat chatbot, which provides access to its large language model Hermes3-70B. Nous Chat offers a familiar interface similar to ChatGPT and allows users to interact with the model without having to run their own code. The Nous Chatbot features long-context memory, multi-turn dialogue, complex role-playing, and self-monologue capabilities.

Sequoia Capital partner Pat Grady stated that future billion-dollar AI companies are more likely to emerge from application software rather than foundational model development. Although Sequoia has invested about $150 million in foundational models like OpenAI and xAI, its application layer investments are significantly higher. Grady emphasized the need for AI startups to design products atop models to meet market demands, expressing optimism abo....

Not Diamond is an innovative AI model router designed to automatically determine the most suitable LLM for responding to specific queries. By combining multiple LLMs into a meta-model and learning when to invoke each model, Not Diamond significantly improves processing efficiency while ensuring high-quality responses. This automated intelligent routing mechanism reduces the time needed for manual model selection, ensuring optimized responses for every query. Key features of Not Diamond include multi-model support, high

Amazon plans to launch a new paid version of Alexa called 'Remarkable Alexa' or 'Project Banyan' in October, aimed at competing with companies like OpenAI and Google through more advanced AI features. This upgraded voice assistant will have smarter conversational and interaction capabilities, able to recognize different voices, proactively ask users for preferences, and provide personalized assistance. One key feature is 'Smart Briefings', which offers users customized daily news summaries, although it has raised concerns about

Midjourney, an early leader in the AI text-to-image generation field, has recently faced challenges from new competitors like xAI, Grok2, and Ideogram2. In response to competitive pressure, Midjourney announced that its official website is now open to all users, providing a daily allowance of 25 free AI image generation services. This initiative aims to expand its user base and attract new users. The new website supports registration using Google and Discord accounts, making the sign-up process simple and convenient. Users can access it through the top of the website.

OpenAI has announced that third-party developers can fine-tune the newly introduced multimodal large model GPT-4o. This feature allows developers to adjust the model's behavior based on specific needs, such as changing the tone, following instructions, or improving the accuracy of technical tasks. Fine-tuning can achieve significant performance improvements with only a small amount of training data and is easy to operate. OpenAI is providing developers with a free allowance of 1 million tokens daily until September 23, as well as a daily free allowance of 2 million tokens for the GPT-4o mini model.

Peach-9B-8k-Roleplay is an AI model specifically designed for roleplay tasks, fine-tuned from the powerful 01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B model, with a wealth of experience accumulated from over 100,000 dialogue syntheses.

OpenAI has announced the launch of GPT-4o mini, offering daily free fine-tuning with 2 million training tokens until September 23rd, aimed at advancing AI technology and fostering developer innovation. This model boasts performance on par with GPT-4o but is priced at only 1/20th of the latter, with significant advantages in training costs, context length, and intelligence levels. After the free period, services will continue to be offered at discounted rates. The fine-tuning capabilities of GPT-4o mini will be initially available to enterprise clients and specific developer tiers, with future expansion planned.

Baidu Wenxin Yiyan is offering users a free 'Member Experience Card', allowing them to experience its latest large model 4.0 Turbo for up to 7 times. The offer is limited by time and instances, applicable to users who have received other experience cards. This model significantly enhances speed and effectiveness through technological innovation, integrating data, foundational models, alignment technology, and is jointly optimized with PaddlePaddle Wenxin, showcasing potential close to general artificial intelligence.

The Zhiyin Mini Program has launched a new feature called "AI Video," which allows users to easily convert ordinary videos into stylized videos with a focus on anime style, making the content more engaging. This service is currently offered for free during a limited-time promotion, aiming to help users enhance the beauty and fun of their videos effortlessly. The features of the Zhiyin AI Video feature include:One-click operation: Users can quickly get started and even beginners can easily create

BD announced that the Wenxin Intelligent Agent Platform (AgentBuilder) has now opened its latest Wenxin Large Model 4.0 version to the public free of charge. Developers can choose to use either the Wenxin Large Model 3.5 or 4.0 version when creating intelligent agents on the platform. The launch of Wenxin 4.0 has greatly expanded the functionality and application range of the platform. Since the release of Wenxin Large Model 4.0 in October 2023, it has achieved significant progress in understand

Recently, Sun Yat-sen University and the BytePlus Digital Human Team made a big splash by proposing a virtual try-on framework called MMTryon. This isn't just any technology; with just a few images of clothes and a few instructions on how to wear them, you can generate a model wearing the clothes with a single click, and the quality is exceptionally high.Imagine selecting a coat, a pair of pants, and a bag, and then "wham!" they automatically appear on the human figure. Whether you're a real per