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.

Today, the Central Cyberspace Administration announced that the 2025 'Clear' series of special actions will further consolidate and enhance governance effectiveness. It will focus on prominent issues strongly reflected by the public, work on breaking through difficult bottlenecks, and strengthen source management and basic management. Efforts will also be made in governance innovation, with targeted and refined measures for each special operation; with respect to netizen rights, there will be a severe crackdown on various types of infringement and illegal behavior to create a clearer and more orderly online environment.

OpenAI is exploring a new plan aimed at protecting its control after transitioning to a for-profit entity. This decision is primarily in response to possible hostile takeovers, particularly threats from billionaire Musk. OpenAI was originally a nonprofit organization; in the context of rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology, it decided to shift to a for-profit model to attract more investment and funding. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, with image licensing provided by Midjourney, for which OpenAI is considering special voting rights for its nonprofit board.

On February 17, Baidu announced the official launch of the Ernie Bot free rights card, which will be fully open for free use starting April 1. This news marks another significant move by Baidu in the field of artificial intelligence, aimed at further lowering the barrier for users to access AI technology and promoting the popularization and application of artificial intelligence.

In the U.S. legal community, copyright disputes related to artificial intelligence (AI) are escalating, and Thomson Reuters has recently won a preliminary victory in this copyright battle. The company sued the now-defunct legal research firm Ross Intelligence in 2020, accusing it of using materials from Thomson Reuters' legal platform Westlaw to train its AI model without authorization. According to the 3rd U.S. Circuit...

On February 8, Tencent Cloud announced a major innovation by integrating the DeepSeek R1 and V3 original models via API into its large model knowledge engine, supporting online search functionality. This move makes Tencent Cloud the first cloud service provider in the country to achieve such capability, providing a new solution for the rapid construction and deployment of enterprise-level AI applications.

According to Changjiang Daily, the court in Wuhan's East Lake High-tech Zone heard a notable copyright dispute case, becoming the first case in Wuhan involving copyright protection for AI-generated images. The key point of the case was that Wang, the creator of AI-generated content, successfully upheld his copyright and received 4,000 yuan in economic compensation. The incident began when Wang published a note on the Xiaohongshu platform about his image works created using a 'certain AI' app. According to statistics, this note garnered widespread attention.

The UK government is considering amending laws to allow AI companies to use creators' online content to train their models unless creators explicitly opt out of the system. This move has sparked strong opposition from the music industry, with former Beatles member Paul McCartney openly expressing his concerns, warning that it could lead to a 'Wild West' scenario where creative works lose the copyright protections they deserve. In an interview with the BBC, McCartney urged the government to reconsider this approach and emphasized the potential threat it poses to emerging artists: 'Young boys, girls...'

Recently, the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI challenged a ruling by the Delhi High Court in India, arguing that the court does not have the authority to demand the deletion of ChatGPT's training data. This case originated from a lawsuit filed by the Indian news agency ANI last November, claiming that OpenAI used its published content to train ChatGPT without authorization. ANI requested the removal of its content from the model's training dataset and accused OpenAI of copyright infringement. The submission was made to the Delhi High Court on January 10.

A research team from the United States and the United Kingdom has recently succeeded in reviving a chatbot code known as ELIZA, which is considered the first electronic chatbot in history. According to their paper published on the arXiv preprint server, this code was originally written by the late MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. In 2021, an MIT archivist named Miles Crowley discovered printed copies of this code in a box containing Weizenbaum's personal belongings. The revival of this code marks an important milestone in the history of artificial intelligence.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently defended the company's use of copyrighted data in AI training by referencing YouTube's battle against pirated content in a legal lawsuit. The case, titled 'Kadrey v. Meta', is one of numerous copyright lawsuits against AI companies currently in U.S. courts, with plaintiffs including notable authors Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates. According to recently released excerpts from Zuckerberg's testimony, he pointed out that while there may be instances of...