Recently, the competition between Google and OpenAI has intensified again. Just one day after the new GPT-4o topped the AI rankings, Google launched its latest beta model, Gemini-Exp-1121, quickly regaining the championship title. Just a week prior, Google had released Gemini-Exp-1114, indicating a rapid response from Google to OpenAI's developments. Jack Rae, the Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind, stated that

On September 25, Baidu Wenxin Kuai Ma topped the rankings of two major evaluation organizations, Sullivan and SuperCLUE. The '2024 AI Code Generation Market Observation Report - Milestone' published by Sullivan in collaboration with the TOPO Research Institute shows that Baidu Wenxin Kuai Ma ranks first across eight important dimensions, including technological foundation, application implementation, and product maturity, making it the product with the most first-place awards among all participating vendors. On the same day, the domestic evaluation organization SuperCLUE released the 'Chinese Native Code Assistant Evaluation Benchmark List', in which Baidu Wenxin Kuai Ma also achieved high marks.

After WeChat officially supported Live photos, Meitu's video editing app - Wink quickly became popular, achieving the third spot in the App Store in China. Wink meets the growing user demand for Live photo editing with its powerful AI video beautification feature, as well as the 'Convert to Live' and 'AI Animation' functions that allow one-click transformation of images and videos into Live photos. It's reported that Wink's 'Video Beautification' feature enables users to easily edit Live photos just like static images.

OpenAI's new systems have achieved outstanding results in a recent evaluation, securing the top position in chatbot rankings. However, the low number of ratings may distort the evaluation results. According to the published overview, these new systems excelled in all evaluation categories, including overall performance, safety, and technical capability. One system specifically designed for STEM tasks briefly ranked second alongside the GPT-4o version released in early September, leading in the technical field. Chatbot Arena is a platform for

Baidu's 'AI Smart Answer' feature topped the overall list in the July 'AI Product Rankings' upon its debut, thanks to the strong support from the Wenxin Large Model, significantly transforming the traditional search experience. This feature is capable of analyzing, summarizing, and organizing answers in multiple modalities, and provides efficient and comprehensive search results through intelligent agent scheduling, effectively addressing real-world problems. In addition to 'AI Smart Answer', Baidu Search also includes various AI features such as 'Multi-Modal Search AI', 'AI Image Assistant', 'AI Blessings & Creative Short Copy', 'AI Assistant', and more.

Wix has launched a new generative AI tool that can automatically create SEO-optimized blog posts and images, available to English-speaking users. This tool can recommend topics based on past content, automatically gather information to generate specific posts, provide SEO keyword suggestions, and allow users to create images through descriptions. Business users can connect their blogs with the Wix business solutions platform to enjoy services such as promotional emails. While this tool offers convenience, it may raise concerns about the proliferation of AI-generated content online. Wix has a precedent of engaging with AI.

BaiChuan Intelligence has partnered with Tianjin University to launch the "Sibyl System" agent framework, achieving first place on the GAIA Leader Board. GAIA, proposed by Meta, Huggingface, and AutoGPT in November 2023, is a novel evaluation scheme primarily assessing the capabilities and solutions of agents in executing complex tasks. This evaluation scheme reveals the shortcomings of existing models and provides directions for improvement in model and agent development. The test questions of

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Groq has unveiled two open-source language models that outperform tech giants in specialized tool usage capabilities. The new Llama-3-Groq-70B-Tool-Use model has claimed the top spot on the Berkeley Function Call Leaderboard (BFCL), surpassing proprietary products from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Groq's project lead, Rick Lamers, announced the breakthrough in an article on X.com. He stated, "I am proud to announce the Llama3Groq Tool Use

In January 2024, Leonardo.ai surpassed Midjourney to become the number one AI image generation product. In February, Midjourney experienced a decline in traffic. Leonardo.ai demonstrated stronger performance, while Midjourney faced pressure in maintaining traffic. Midjourney has issues with its image generation model and user retention, and its usage costs are relatively high. Leonardo.ai excels in user engagement and session duration, with a steady increase in unique visitors.

Google has announced an update to its search quality policies aimed at combating SEO spam and the manipulation of search rankings using AI. The update is designed to eliminate the high ranking of low-quality or spammy websites in search results. Google will penalize websites that abuse technologies like artificial intelligence, thereby improving the quality of search results. This updated policy will address the issue of low-quality content being excluded from search results. This initiative aims to maintain search quality and user experience, and will affect the rankings of many websites.

The Google Bard GemPro version has successfully surpassed GPT-4 in the LMSYS chatbot rankings, bringing significant changes to the chatbot field. Bard is now the second highest-scoring chatbot on the LMSYS list, gradually catching up to the champion, GPT-4 Turbo. Bard's rise is attributed to its adoption of Google's Gemini Pro large multimodal model, making it the second model on the list to achieve over 1200 points. LMSYS Org states that Bard's surge in the rankings is a remarkable development.

OpenAI leads the AI sector with a $6 million salary, provoking widespread social discussion. Entry-level programmers earn as little as $85 per hour, raising concerns over the pay gap. The compensation rankings reveal that companies like DeepMind and Tesla also offer salaries in the millions. The growing demand for talent in the AI field highlights the disparity in pay and roles within the industry. The future of AI development looks promising, presenting significant opportunities for AI professionals.

OpenAI ranks first with an annual salary of $865,000, attracting top AI researchers worldwide. Competitor Anthropic follows closely with an annual salary of $855,000, amidst rumors of a potential merger with OpenAI. Hugging Face, with its open-source approach, offers a salary of $238,000, landing at the bottom but still attracting many researchers. Amazon offers the highest compensation among large tech companies, with an annual salary of $719,000, and negotiable increments of 38%.

The latest Google 'Helpful Content' update has raised concerns among website owners, with some claiming they have been pushed down in search results and experiencing a sharp decline in traffic. The update allows AI-generated content, which has sparked dissatisfaction among site owners who fear that Google is forcing publishers to produce AI-generated junk content or risk being penalized. Google has simplified its definition of 'helpful content' from 'content written for people by people' to 'content written for people.'

SuperCLUE has released the August rankings for Chinese large models, featuring 5 different ranking evaluations that selected 16 general large language models, utilizing 3,337 new test questions. The performance gap between domestic large models on Chinese tasks and GPT-3.5 is narrowing.