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Hangzhou-based medical AI company, MeiYin Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., recently announced it has secured millions of yuan in seed funding. The funding will primarily be used for R&D and commercialization of its core product. The round was led by Zhuoyuan Asia, with participation from Xihu Government Direct Investment Fund. MeiYin Intelligence focuses on leveraging AI to predict disease risk and promote health management. Its core product, based on its self-developed DP-LLM large model, supports the processing of multimodal medical data to accurately quantify an individual's future disease risk, covering hundreds of diseases and more.

New York-based AI startup 1Fort announced a $7.5 million seed funding round to improve the process of small businesses obtaining commercial insurance through its AI-powered platform. The company, which saw 200% revenue growth in 2024, aims to automate cumbersome and outdated manual processes, helping millions of underserved small businesses address insurance gaps. The funding round was led by Bonfire Ventures, with participation from Draper Associates.

The ByteDance Doubao large model team announced the open-sourcing of UI-TARS-1.5, an open-source multimodal agent built on a vision-language model capable of efficiently executing various tasks in a virtual world. The model achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on seven typical GUI (Graphical User Interface) benchmark evaluations and demonstrated, for the first time, its long-term reasoning capabilities in games and interactive capabilities in open spaces. This open-source project marks a significant advancement in multimodal agent technology for GUIs.

Scout AI, a startup focused on autonomous vehicle manufacturing and autonomous software development, has emerged from stealth mode after announcing a successful $15 million seed funding round. Founded in August of last year by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis, the company aims to apply AI and robotics to defense missions. On the same day as the funding announcement, Scout AI proudly revealed that they have secured multiple contracts with the US Department of Defense and launched their

ByteDance's Seed team has officially released the technical report for its Seedream 3.0 text-to-image model. This model boasts significant performance improvements, representing a native high-resolution, bilingual (English and Chinese) foundational image generation model. It achieves breakthroughs in resolution, structural accuracy of generated images, and more, showing significant advantages over the previous version. The report details Seedream 3.0's performance across various dimensions. Data in the charts are normalized using the best indicator as a reference. Seedream 3.0 natively supports...

According to AI Technology Review, ByteDance's AI Lab is reportedly merging into its Seed team. This significant restructuring marks a major shift in ByteDance's internal AI R&D structure. Established in 2016, the AI Lab, previously a core part of ByteDance's AI research under Ma Weiying and reporting directly to Zhang Yiming, boasted a team of 150 researchers. Their work encompassed cutting-edge AI technologies, contributing significantly to the success of products like Douyin (TikTok) through advancements in recommendation algorithms and video effects. The AI Lab played a crucial role in ByteDance's growth.

Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly pursuing one of the largest seed funding rounds in history. According to Business Insider, the company has doubled its seed funding target to $20 billion. If successful, this round would value the company at least $10 billion. Thinking Machines Lab has only recently emerged from stealth mode and currently has no publicly available products.

Dyna Robotics, a startup emerging from stealth mode, announced a $23.5 million seed funding round led by CRV and First Round Capital. The company aims to provide affordable embodied AI robots for businesses of all sizes. Dyna Robotics co-founders Lindon Gao and York Yang previously founded the hardware AI company Caper.AI.

Arcade.dev announced a $12 million seed funding round to build a secure authentication and integration platform for AI agents. The round was led by Laude Ventures with participation from Flybridge Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Neotribe, and several angel investors. Arcade.dev aims to solve the security challenges of AI interacting with the real world. Image attribution: Image provided by

Amidst the booming development of the artificial intelligence field, Bytedance's Doubao large model team (Seed) recently held an all-hands meeting, marking a significant decision regarding the team's future direction. The meeting was co-hosted by Zhu Wenjia and the newly appointed head of AI fundamental research, Wu Yonghui. This was the first time the two leaders appeared together, attracting widespread attention from the industry. At the meeting, Zhu Wenjia and Wu Yonghui clearly stated that the Seed team's primary goal is to "explore the upper limit of intelligence," which will serve as the core guidance for the team's future work. They pointed out that exploring...

Still struggling with sound effects for your short videos? Still searching for the perfect BGM that always falls short? Now, ByteDance is releasing a blockbuster AI technology that breaks the final silent spell of video creation! Their newly launched SeedFoley sound effect generation model is like injecting life into your videos. With just one click, it intelligently matches professional-level sound effects to your videos, instantly transforming your work from a silent film into a vibrant cinematic experience. The effect is stunning! Even more exciting, this AI sound effect technology has quickly launched on ByteDance's platform.

Today, the Doubao Large Model team officially released a technical report on its text-to-image technology, publicly disclosing for the first time the technical details of the Seedream2.0 image generation model. This encompasses the entire process, from data construction and pre-training framework to post-training RLHF, marking a significant breakthrough in the text-to-image field. Since its launch on the Doubao app and Jimeng in early December 2024, Seedream2.0 has served over 100 million C-end users and has become a favorite among professional designers. Compared to mainstream models like Ideogram2.0 and Midjourney V6.1, it...

According to CNBC, Perplexity, the AI search engine developer, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund. The fund is largely capitalized by limited partners, with Perplexity contributing a portion of its previous funding as cornerstone capital. In December, Perplexity successfully raised $500 million, valuing the company at $9 billion. This investment fund is managed by two...

According to several sources close to ByteDance, the company's AI core department Seed is undergoing rapid strategic adjustments and personnel changes. Dr. Wu Yonghui, a prominent AI expert who recently joined ByteDance from Google and was involved in the development of Gemini, will replace the original head of the LLM team and Seed, Zhu Wenjia, becoming the new head of the Seed department. Currently, the team is restructuring and adjusting reporting relationships.