Recently, Infinix, a brand under Transsion Holdings, announced the integration of its smartphone series with the full version of DeepSeek-R1 AI technology. According to official information, starting from February 26, users of Infinix smartphones running XOS 14.5 and above can experience this new feature through a system upgrade. Additionally, Transsion revealed that the new NOTE series smartphones, set to launch in March, will also be equipped with DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1 is an advanced

Recently, the latest artificial intelligence model Grok3 launched by xAI quickly climbed to the top of the App Store in the United States, becoming a hot topic among users. Behind this achievement, in addition to Grok3's powerful features, are the outstanding contributions of two Chinese scholars. They are Assistant Professor Jimmy Ba from the University of Toronto and Tony Wu, co-founder of xAI. It is worth noting that Tony Wu is not only the only post-95 scholar in the team, but his academic background and development experience are also impressive.

In the field of academic research, literature retrieval is a complex and crucial information acquisition task. Researchers need the capability to handle intricate, domain-specific search queries to meet detailed research requirements. However, existing academic search platforms, like Google Scholar, often struggle to address these complex research queries. For example, queries related to non-stationary reinforcement learning using the UCB method require stronger computational and analytical capabilities. Moreover, researchers typically need to spend a significant amount of time and effort manually browsing extensive academic literature when conducting literature reviews.

The $100 billion Stargate project plans to source some of its electricity from solar energy and batteries. According to Bloomberg, the renewable energy facilities for this project will be constructed by SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank, but this is not the only energy source for the project. Stargate is a collaboration between OpenAI, Oracle, and the SoftBank Group aimed at establishing a large number of new data centers to accelerate the rapid development of artificial intelligence applications. Image source note:

Recently, Felix Hill, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, tragically passed away at the age of 41 due to mental health issues. This news has sparked widespread attention and mourning within the AI community. Felix had been struggling with severe mental health problems since early 2023, exhibiting significant depression and suicidal tendencies. Despite his notable achievements in academia, he ultimately could not overcome his internal struggles. Felix Hill was an outstanding AI scholar who contributed to the creation of natural language processing.

Douyin Group recently released the 2024 Live Streaming Governance Report, showcasing the platform's governance philosophy, methods, and achievements in the live streaming field. Over the past year, Douyin has committed to building a safe, trustworthy, and clean online live streaming environment by improving anchor management mechanisms, enhancing content identification technology, coordinating online and offline governance, and protecting key groups, resulting in significant achievements.

The fusion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing science is radically transforming the advertising industry. Despite some hesitation, more and more brands are beginning to recognize the immense potential of AI in creativity and operations. Iconic brands like Coca-Cola have already taken the lead by incorporating AI into their advertising campaigns. Coca-Cola used AI to remake its iconic ad "The Holidays are Coming," showcasing the technological advancements achieved in a short period of time. PetSmart Charities utilized AI to create vivid profiles of adoptable animals.

Recently, the Italian data protection authority announced a €15 million fine on OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT. This decision was made following an investigation launched in March 2023, which found that OpenAI violated privacy protection regulations in multiple areas. Image source note: the image is generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. The investigation indicated that OpenAI made significant errors in handling personal data. Firstly, the company failed to promptly report data breach incidents.

WeChat's Coral Security recently issued a statement emphasizing the platform's determination to combat the improper marketing behavior that uses AI technology to impersonate notable figures. The announcement mentioned that WeChat is committed to creating a safe, healthy, and green online environment. In response to the recent phenomenon of using AI technology to impersonate celebrities for marketing purposes, WeChat has quickly taken action and seriously dealt with a number of violations.

A research team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has recently unveiled an AI technology called SOLAMI, which can create lifelike 3D virtual characters that not only interact with you in real-time in the VR world but also understand your voice and movements, allowing for chatting, dancing, and even boxing! This is simply a blessing for gaming, virtual socializing, and singles alike! SOLAMI is an end-to-end social vision-language-action (VLA) modeling framework that leverages deep learning technology to translate user voice and movements into a form understandable by virtual characters.

Recently, Alibaba DAMO Academy (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.'s model open-source community, ModelScope, announced a significant breakthrough: the release of the InternVL 2.5 model. This open-source multimodal large language model has achieved exceptional performance, becoming the first open-source model to exceed 70% accuracy on the Multimodal Understanding Benchmark (MMMU), rivaling commercial models like GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet.

The Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP) recently issued a warning to local media group GEDI, indicating that its collaboration agreement with OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, may violate EU privacy protection laws. According to this agreement, GEDI plans to provide its Italian language news content to ChatGPT subscribers, while OpenAI may use GEDI's news archives to enhance the accuracy of its products. The GPDP stressed that GEDI's digital archive contains a significant amount of personal information, including numerous details and even sensitive data.

Coca-Cola recently launched a Christmas advertisement generated by artificial intelligence, which faced strong opposition from netizens. The ad features a fleet of cherry-red trucks driving along a snow-covered road, delivering ice-cold Coke to customers in a festively decorated town. While the campaign showcases the future of commercial advertising, many consumers did not feel the festive spirit, criticizing the beverage brand's ad as 'garbage,' 'ugly,' and 'lazy.' The ad utilized Coca-Cola's artificial intelligence software, Real Magic AI, and included small print in the video.