According to Intelligent Eruption, embodied intelligent agent operating system developer Yunjinwei recently announced the completion of an angel round financing of several million yuan, led by iFlytek. This round of financing will be used for core technology product development and market ecosystem construction. Founded in June 2021, Yunjinwei focuses on the development of embodied intelligent agent operating systems. The company was founded by Dr. Wang Wenyu, former general manager of the hardware division of Yitu Technology, and co-founder Dr. Zhou Chang was formerly responsible for visual large model development at Alibaba's DAMO Academy for the Urban Brain. The team has received support from Ningbo's Yaojiang Talent Plan and Yongjiang Talent Engineering Plan.

Recently, the location data and technology platform HERE Technologies, based in the Netherlands, announced a ten-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) worth a total of $10 billion. This collaboration aims to revolutionize the development of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and drive innovation in the automotive industry. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, and the image licensing provider Midjourney.

AliCloud and leading large model enterprise Zero One Technology have announced an important strategic cooperation to jointly establish the "Industrial Large Model Joint Laboratory," marking deep collaboration between two tech giants in the field of AI. This cooperation will accelerate the transformation of large model technology into practical application scenarios and promote further integration of the industrial large model ecosystem. The newly established joint laboratory will cover three core areas: technology, business, and talent. By integrating the R&D advantages of both parties in the field of large models, the laboratory will focus on exploring next-generation foundational model technologies and will utilize AliCloud's capabilities.

In a significant innovation in the digital payment realm, payment solution provider iWallet has pioneered a voice AI payment system. This groundbreaking technology marks the official entry of the payment industry into the era of intelligent voice interaction. Currently, the payment industry still commonly uses traditional technologies such as Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF), which not only hinder user experience but also pose challenges in terms of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. Addressing this pain point, the voice AI system developed by iWallet ensures PCI compliance.

Li Liyun, head of intelligent driving at Xpeng Motors, recently disclosed the company's autonomous driving development timeline for the first time, announcing plans to offer pseudo-autonomous driving capabilities on the Max series models by 2025, making Xpeng the first domestic car manufacturer to set a clear timeline for the rollout of autonomous driving. Li stated that Xpeng is currently on the 'eve of unmanned driving'. Based on a firm belief in the Scaling Law of autonomous driving, Xpeng has chosen a pure vision technology route for intelligent driving. He believes that with the accumulation of massive amounts of data and continuous improvement in cloud and vehicle computing power, the transition will be feasible.

As one of the most watched AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, Cohere was valued at $5.5 billion in July. One of the company's co-founders is an author of the paper 'Attention Is All You Need,' which is considered critical to sparking the revolution of large language models (LLMs). Headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, Cohere focuses on providing AI solutions for enterprise clients, rather than pursuing a similar path as other companies.

Today, Deepfake is ubiquitous. With the rise of generative AI, the amount of false content online has exploded. According to identity verification platform Sumsub, the number of Deepfakes globally has increased fourfold from 2023 to 2024. By 2024, Deepfake will account for 7% of all fraud incidents, involving everything from identity impersonation and account theft to complex social engineering attacks. To effectively combat Deepfake, Meta...

Recently, Visual China announced a strategic partnership with Beijing Vidu Technology Co., Ltd. to jointly explore and establish a 'Visual Industry Large Model Platform and Applications.' This collaboration aims to deepen the application of artificial intelligence technology in the visual content industry and promote the intelligent upgrading of the industry, with the goal of providing more efficient and intelligent services for global visual content creators and users.

On October 30, Mianbi Intelligence announced a strategic partnership with Baidu Intelligent Cloud, aiming to jointly develop collaborative solutions for large models. According to the partnership agreement, the two parties will leverage Baidu Intelligent Cloud's Qianfan Large Model Platform, Wenxin series large models, as well as Mianbi's MiniCPM series edge large models and cutting-edge technology accumulation across multiple terminals and different scenarios, to collaboratively develop and promote edge-cloud collaborative technology solutions that further enhance the performance of large models in practical applications such as embodied intelligence, smart terminals, and edge computing, while reducing the inference costs of large models.

Healthcare startup Pharos has recently launched an innovative AI solution aimed at streamlining the cumbersome process of submitting quality reports to external clinical registries by hospitals. The company has just completed a $5 million seed funding round led by Felicis, with participation from General Catalyst, Moxxie, and Y Combinator. In the current healthcare system, submitting quality reports to institutions such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is an extremely time-consuming task.

Vienna-based AI governance and compliance solutions provider Daiki GmbH today announced the completion of a €1.5 million seed funding round. The funds will be used to support the company's expansion into the European market and product development, marking a significant step for Daiki in promoting the responsible deployment of AI by European enterprises. Daiki offers SaaS compliance solutions tailored to the EU AI Act and ISO standards, including ISO 13485 certification for medical device manufacturers. The product, developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts, includes integrated documentation and quality management.

Boston-based startup Smartcat has raised $43 million in Series C funding to advance its AI translation platform. Founded just six years ago, Smartcat has served over 1,000 enterprises, including 20% of the Fortune 500 companies. Co-founder and CEO Ivan Smolnikov, a former physicist, aims to disrupt the traditional translation model by providing efficient multilingual content processing. The Smartcat platform supports translation in 280 languages and uses a 'matching engine'.

At a recent Gartner IT symposium, analysts predicted that by 2027, 40% of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions will achieve multimodal integration, significantly up from 1% in 2023. The integration of multimodal GenAI can capture relationships between different data streams and expand benefits across various data and applications, supporting human multitasking in different environments. Gartner's report indicates that multimodal GenAI and open-source large language models will have a profound impact, benefiting enterprises in the next five years.

Dell Technologies Group's second-quarter fiscal report for 2025 demonstrates strong performance, with total revenue reaching $25.026 billion, a year-over-year increase of 9%. The Infrastructure Solutions Group performed impressively, generating $11.6 billion in revenue, a 38% increase, with server and networking revenue jumping 80% to $7.7 billion. However, the storage business reported revenue of $4 billion, down 5%. The Client Solutions Group's revenue was $12.4 billion, reflecting a 4% year-over-year decline. Demand in the AI sector continues to climb, with demand for AI-optimized servers at $3.2 billion, a 23% quarter-over-quarter increase.