Against the backdrop of Trump's return to the White House, top entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley are quietly becoming key technological advisors to the president. Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks are among those strategizing for Trump, with their most notable point being their strong criticism of AI regulation. This group of tech elites believes that AI chatbots are emerging as a new ideological battleground. Their core concern is that large tech companies may use AI systems to propagate specific political positions, achieving a more covert and effective form of 'regulation'.

The artificial intelligence community is buzzing again, this time focusing on rumors about the possible upcoming release of GPT-4.5. AI developer Tibor Blaho discovered potential clues regarding a 'Limited Preview' version of GPT-4.5 in the ChatGPT code, suggesting that OpenAI may plan to offer it first to Teams subscribers. This is not the first time rumors about GPT-4.5 have surfaced in the industry. As early as last March, discussions about this potential new model version were widespread. At that time, OpenAI's blog even...

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.

The Alibaba International AI team has recently released a new reasoning model called Marco-o1, which focuses on solving open-ended questions, extending beyond traditional subjects with standard answers such as programming and mathematics. The research team is dedicated to exploring whether such models can be effectively adapted to fields that are difficult to quantify and lack clear rewards.

Recently, research teams from Peking University announced the release of an open-source multimodal model called LLaVA-o1, which is claimed to be the first visual language model capable of spontaneous and systematic reasoning, comparable to GPT-o1. The model excels in six challenging multimodal benchmark tests, with its 11B parameter version outperforming competitors such as Gemini-1.5-pro, GPT-4o-mini, and Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct.

The rapid development of deep learning relies on the scale of datasets, models, and computational power. In the fields of natural language processing and computer vision, researchers have already discovered a power-law relationship between model performance and data scale. However, in the field of robotics, especially in robot manipulation, such scalable patterns have yet to be established. A research team from Tsinghua University recently published a paper exploring data scaling laws in robot imitation learning and proposed an efficient data collection strategy that collected sufficient data in just one afternoon, enabling...

Recently, the globally renowned robot vacuum manufacturer iRobot announced it will lay off approximately 105 employees, which accounts for 16% of its total workforce. This news was disclosed in the company's financial report, where iRobot's CEO Gary Cohen stated during the earnings call that this move, while challenging, fundamentally changes the way the company works with its partners, improving the efficiency of robot research and development as well as production. Cohen emphasized that iRobot has already...

According to 36Kr, former Meituan co-founder Wang Huiwen has officially returned to Meituan and will serve as the head of the AI team, focusing on exploring applications of artificial intelligence. This team, named GN06, concentrates on areas such as emotional companionship and chatbots. Wang Huiwen will play a key role within the team, overseeing interviews and vetting the recruitment for product and operations positions. Reports indicate that the GN06 team's working status is relatively independent and does not fall under any of Meituan's business groups, allowing them to focus on developing new directions outside the core business.

Recently, research teams from several Chinese scientific institutions have launched the super large-scale multimodal dataset named Infinity-MM, and based on this dataset, they have trained an outstanding AI model called Aquila-VL-2B. This breakthrough injects new momentum into the development of multimodal AI. The Infinity-MM dataset is astonishing in size, containing four major types of data: 10 million image descriptions, 24.4 million general visual instruction data, 6 million selected high-quality instruction data, and 3 million generated by G

The Walt Disney Company is exploring applications in its film, television, and theme park divisions and is currently forming a new team to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality. The newly established technology support office will be led by Jamie Voris, the Chief Technology Officer of Disney Studios, who was responsible for developing Disney applications for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality device. Eddie Drake will