According to The Wall Street Journal, ChatGPT Plus has demonstrated remarkable user stickiness among all AI subscription services, achieving a paid user retention rate of 71% after six months, ranking first in the industry. Data provided by Earnest Analytics shows that the Claude Pro service from Anthropic follows closely with a retention rate of 62%. Google's Gemini Advanced ranks third with a retention rate of 60%.

Beijing Zhiyuan Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced on January 16, 2025, the launch of a series of new models and their availability on bigmodel.cn. Following the release of 'Zhiyuan Qingtalk' in August, the company has delved deeper into the understanding and generation of language, speech, images, and videos, introducing multimodal models such as GLM-Voice, GLM-4V, CogView, and CogVideoX.

Since Microsoft first launched the C o p i l o t Plus laptop based on Arm architecture in June, there has been anticipation about whether the features of C o p i l o t Plus could be applied to desktop computers. Six months later, the upcoming mini PC from Microsoft will bring AI capabilities to Windows 11, such as smart reminders, click-to-do lists, and AI image generation and editing. These mini PCs are expected to help Microsoft compete with Apple's latest Mac.

Recently, Zhipu Company successfully completed a new round of financing, raising 3 billion RMB, attracting participation from multiple strategic investors and state-owned institutions, with existing shareholders such as Guanjun Capital also increasing their investment. The funds will primarily be used for the research and development upgrades of Zhipu's base large model, further enhancing its capabilities in complex reasoning, multimodal task solving, and promoting innovation and development in the industry ecosystem. This marks Zhipu's second round of financing this year. Previously, in September, Zhipu received funding support led by Zhongguancun Science City, becoming the first large model startup to achieve a valuation exceeding 20 billion RMB.

OpenAI has officially released its new hyper-realistic AI video generation software, Sora Turbo, nearly ten months after its initial demonstration. Sora Turbo has undergone several significant upgrades. It is now available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers, who need to pay a monthly fee of $20 or $200. The service covers the United States and most non-EU and UK regions. Sora Turbo allows users to generate videos through text input or static images.

Apple recently announced that it will integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into the upcoming iOS 18.2 version. This update is expected to be officially released in December, at which point users will be able to experience a smarter Siri and other features. According to the latest news, the beta version of iOS 18.2 has added an option to directly upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in the settings, providing users with an easy way to subscribe to OpenAI's paid service, which costs $20 per month.

The Zhipu technology team announced an exciting piece of news today: their latest text-to-image model CogView3 and its upgraded version CogView3-Plus-3B have officially been open-sourced and successfully launched on the 'Zhipu Qingyan' App. The debut of these two models marks a new phase in AI-assisted artistic creation. CogView3 is a cascade diffusion-based text-to-image model, and its generation process is exquisite. The model first generates a low-resolution image of 512x512 pixels, and then...

Recently, Zhipu AI announced that the video call API: GLM-4-Plus-VideoCall is now open for applications on the platform. This API is based on the model behind Qingyan video calls, capable of enabling video calls and multi-turn voice interaction across modalities, and is expected to become a new paradigm pushing the innovation of human-computer interaction.

Recently, Zhichu AI has open-sourced its latest creation—CogView3 and its upgraded version CogView-3Plus-3B, injecting new vitality into the field of text-to-image generation. The debut of CogView3 is undoubtedly a significant milestone. As the first model to achieve relay diffusion in the text-to-image generation domain, it employs a unique cascade diffusion method. This innovative approach first generates low-resolution images and then completes the final output through relay-based super-resolution technology. This not only greatly enhances...

Zhipu AI announced today that since being showcased at KDD 2024, its flagship language model GLM-4-Plus and the first dynamic video understanding model GLM-4V-Plus have received widespread recognition, achieving outstanding results on authoritative evaluation lists, breaking the monopoly of foreign models in the top three and positioning themselves at the international elite level.

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it will roll out the advanced voice mode (AVM) for ChatGPT to more paying customers. This upgrade aims to make conversations more natural and fluid, with the initial beneficiaries being ChatGPT Plus and Teams tier customers. Educational and enterprise clients will gain access starting next week. As part of this update, the interface design of AVM has also been optimized. The user interface now features a blue animated sphere to represent the functionality, replacing the previously displayed animated black dot. When AVM becomes available,

Volkswagen announced that its voice assistant 'Plus Speech', developed in collaboration with Cerence, will officially launch in the United States this week, integrated into the 2025 Jetta, Jetta GTI, and ID.4 (82kWh battery) models. This feature can execute in-car commands, answer questions unrelated to driving, and provide more natural and fluent responses using various data sources, including ChatGPT, via the internet. The 'IDA' feature allows drivers and passengers to express their needs by saying 'Hi IDA'.

Recently, Zhipu AI launched its foundational large model GLM-4-Plus, showcasing visual capabilities that rival OpenAI's GPT-4, and announced that it would be available for use starting August 30. This model has made significant advancements in language foundation, text-to-image, image/video understanding, and video generation, becoming the first general video understanding model API in the country, contributing over 20 million downloads to the open-source community. GLM-4-Plus excels in language parsing, instruction execution, and long text processing.

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced a series of significant technological updates on August 29, 2024, including the release of a new generation foundation model and new application services. At the KDD2024 conference, Zhipu introduced new foundation models including the language model GLM-4-Plus, the text-to-image model CogView-3-Plus, the image/video understanding model GLM-4V-Plus, and the video generation model CogVideoX. These models have achieved international leading standards in their respective fields.

Microsoft plans to launch the controversial Recall AI feature for Windows Insiders in October, originally scheduled for release in June alongside Copilot Plus PC, but delayed due to security issues. The Recall feature allows users to screenshot content on their computers, making it easier to search and review history, and includes a timeline functionality. Although Microsoft claims the feature is secure and private, security personnel discovered that the database was not encrypted, raising privacy concerns. In response to these risks, Microsoft will implement measures requiring users to choose to enable Recall.

OpenAI recently announced that free users can now generate two images per day using its DALL-E 3 model, a service that was previously limited to paid subscribers of ChatGPT Plus.

The futuristic scenario depicted in the movie 'Her' is becoming a reality, as OpenAI's GPT-4o model has launched a gradual testing phase for its voice feature, providing users with a more natural and real-time conversational experience. This feature allows users to interrupt freely, can sense and respond to user emotions, and includes 'face-to-face' communication via video and screen-sharing capabilities. GPT-4o's output capability has significantly increased, allowing for an output range of 4000 to 64000 tokens in one go, equivalent to about 200 pages of a novel. During testing, users can use it to tell jokes.