This morning, at the first representative channel of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, Lei Jun, a national people's congress representative, founder, chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi, and chairman of Kingsoft, answered reporters' questions. Lei Jun elaborated on Xiaomi's role in manufacturing, technological innovation direction, and globalization strategy.

Lei Jun pointed out that AI terminals, as important platforms for the implementation of AI technology, are constantly expanding their application scope, extending from smartphones, smart cars, and wearable devices to smart homes and robots. This trend not only injects new vitality into the consumer market but also provides key impetus for the high-end and intelligent upgrading of the industrial chain. However, in the early stages of the rapid development of AI terminals, it is still necessary to overcome core technological bottlenecks, build a collaborative innovation ecosystem, and promote industry standardization, collaboration, innovation, and high-quality development.

In the context of the rapid rise of the global artificial intelligence sector, OpenAI is undertaking an important strategic restructuring aimed at transforming its charitable division PBC (Public Benefit Corporation) into a profit-making entity. According to insiders, OpenAI has initially valued this newly established charitable division at $30 billion, but there remains no clear answer regarding the stake Microsoft's $14 billion investment will represent. During these negotiations, the OpenAI board is busy discussing.

Against the backdrop of the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry, AI voice technology company Sibichi recently announced the successful completion of a financing round totaling 500 million yuan. Participants in this financing include several well-known industrial funds, state-owned platforms, and private equity funds, marking a significant boost in Sibichi's support in the capital market. Founded in 2007, Sibichi is one of the early companies focusing on the AI field in China, initially centered around AI voice technology and has since expanded into integrated software and hardware solutions and AI hardware products. In the future, Sibichi will ...

In the field of artificial intelligence, ByteDance's commercial technology team presents the latest achievement, the Infinity model, which has become a new leader in the auto-regressive text-to-image generation domain with its outstanding performance and innovative technology. This newly open-sourced model not only surpasses Stable Diffusion 3 in image generation quality but also demonstrates significant advantages in inference speed. The core innovation of the Infinity model lies in its use of a Bitwise Token auto-regressive framework, which predicts the next level of resolution by +1 or -1.

The highly anticipated Deepseek V3 is finally open source! This brand-new AI model has achieved significant breakthroughs in multilingual programming capabilities, even outperforming competitors like Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2 in the aider multilingual programming assessment, attracting widespread attention in the industry. It is reported that Deepseek V3 has made a qualitative leap in performance compared to previous versions. Deepseek V2.5 had a success rate of only 17% in the aider assessment, while V3 has surged to 4.

Beijing Mianbi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced the completion of a new financing round of hundreds of millions of RMB. This round was jointly led by Loongson Venture Capital, Dinghui Baifu, Zhongguancun Science City Fund, and Sequoia Capital. The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund and Qiming Venture Partners participated as co-investors, with Wanjia Capital acting as the exclusive financial advisor. Mianbi Intelligence plans to use this funding to accelerate the commercialization of terminal-side AI large models, aiming to provide high-performance, low-energy consumption, and faster large model services under the same parameters to deeply serve the industry and create tangible value for users.

The Ministry of Education recently announced that the expert committee of the inter-ministerial joint conference on foreign language Chinese translation standards has reviewed and approved the 16th batch of 18 groups of recommended Chinese translations for foreign terms. These translations primarily relate to the fields of artificial intelligence and information technology. This initiative aims to standardize the new terms that frequently appear in the AI field, providing the public with clear official explanations to eliminate confusion.

On December 8, 2024, Jack Ma delivered an outstanding speech at the 20th anniversary celebration of Ant Group, reflecting on the opportunities of the Internet era and envisioning the tremendous changes of the AI era. Jack Ma stated that 20 years ago, when the Internet was just emerging, he and his peers were very fortunate to seize this historical opportunity. However, in his view, the next 20 years will see the arrival of the AI era, bringing unprecedented changes that exceed everyone's imagination. Jack Ma emphasized that AI will be a greater era that will change everything, but he also pointed out that AI will not decide.

A seemingly absurd hacker experiment once again sounds the alarm for AI security. In a competition called Freysa, an AI chatbot security challenge, a hacker using the alias 'p0pular.eth' successfully 'scammed' $47,000 worth of cryptocurrency simply through well-crafted text prompts. This shocking case reveals serious security vulnerabilities present in current AI systems. The hacker's attack process can be described as textbook social engineering: first, the hacker impersonated an administrator, cleverly bypassing...

Tesla recently confirmed through a job posting that it plans to establish a 'remote operations' team to remotely control its upcoming fleet of robotaxis. This move is an important step for Tesla in achieving its robotaxi service, while also drawing on the experiences of market leader Waymo. There are significant differences in autonomous driving strategies between Waymo and Tesla. Waymo employs various sensors, including cameras and LiDAR, to operate its already commercialized autonomous rideshare services in multiple markets.