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.

In August 2024, Baidu Cloud Drive launched a solution tailored for the photography industry, integrating storage backup, AI photo editing, and efficient delivery. The aim is to help photography studios improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance business growth. Through research conducted with hundreds of photography studios, Baidu Cloud Drive identified common issues such as management difficulties, low efficiency, and high costs, and developed this targeted solution.

Mastercard has launched an innovative approach utilizing generative AI and graphical technology to significantly enhance the identification of stolen payment cards, doubling its detection rate and allowing for risk identification before cards are maliciously used. This technology has a profound impact on both online and brick-and-mortar retailers, helping to reduce fraud losses, improve transaction security, and enhance customer experience. By quickly scanning vast amounts of card data and transaction information, the system can identify new fraud patterns, predict and infer partial visible card information, reconstruct complete card details, promptly alerting banks and protecting cardholders against fraud.

In the continuous development of the AI field, people are beginning to worry about the impact of AI on Earth, particularly its high energy consumption and carbon emissions. The latest research shows that generative AI queries consume much more energy than traditional search engine requests, up to four to five times the energy of traditional operations. Especially, the energy required for image generation tasks is much higher than that of text-based operations. According to research by Morgan Sta

Kaedim has completed a $15 million Series A funding round to promote AI-driven 3D asset creation solutions. They launched an AI-driven marketplace offering 10,000 pre-generated 3D assets, aiming to expand their platform and market share. New tools have been released to assist creators in building 3D assets, integrating with existing workflows such as Unreal and Blender. The CEO stated that the company is committed to driving innovation in 3D technology applications, providing creators with efficient tools and services.

Huawei unveiled three innovative data storage solutions at MWC24 Barcelona, including AI Data Lake, All-Scenario Data Protection, and DCS Full-Stack Data Center, aimed at building a leading data infrastructure for the AI era.

Lenovo Group unveiled the new ThinkPad and ThinkBook business AI PCs at MWC 2024. The new AI PCs feature the latest Intel Core Ultra processors and come with the Windows 11 operating system. The company introduced software solutions, including Lenovo Identity Advisor and Smart Connect. Lenovo also showcased the latest concept product, the ThinkBook Transparent Screen Laptop, revolutionizing user experience.