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.

On January 7, 2025, Beijing Zero One Everything Technology Co., Ltd. refuted recent online rumors regarding 'Alibaba acquiring Zero One Everything'. The company clearly stated that these rumors are untrue and denied the related false statements. Zero One Everything emphasized that its collaboration with Alibaba Cloud is based on deep cooperation in technology, computing power, business, and talent, rather than an acquisition relationship.

According to the '2024 AI Usage Trends Report for Young People', the application of AI is no longer limited to specific fields; it has permeated various aspects of life, from work reviews to personal side jobs, creative video production, and even roles as cyber friends or partners. The report highlights that compared to 2023, those born after 1995, women, and business managers have the highest interest in AI. Overall, over 80% of respondents expressed a strong interest in AI tools such as text, graphics, audio, and video. Additionally, nearly half of the respondents reported using AI tools daily.

Recently, Google updated its terms of use for generative AI, clearly stating that customers can deploy its generative AI tools for 'automated decision-making' in 'high-risk' areas such as healthcare, provided there is human oversight. According to the updated 'Generative AI Prohibition Policy' released by Google on Tuesday, customers can use Google's generative AI to make 'automated decisions' that may have a 'significant adverse impact' on individual rights, as long as there is some form of human oversight involved.

On December 18th, at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the new Doubao Visual Understanding Model. This model processes both text and image-related information simultaneously, providing more accurate answers. The new model excels in content recognition, understanding, and reasoning capabilities, featuring more nuanced visual description abilities, which brings stronger intelligent processing capabilities to enterprise users. Tan Dai revealed at the conference that the Doubao Visual Understanding Model has achieved significant technological breakthroughs and has also seen a dramatic reduction in pricing.

Recently, the ChatGPT chatbot encountered an unusual situation where it could not respond properly to the name 'David Mayer'. Users repeatedly attempted to get ChatGPT to mention this name, but regardless of direct reference or modifying prompts, ChatGPT responded with error messages or prevented users from continuing to ask questions.

Recently, five major Canadian media organizations have jointly filed a lawsuit against the AI company OpenAI, accusing it of using their copyrighted content without authorization to train ChatGPT. These media organizations include Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada. According to the lawsuit, OpenAI used their content in the development of its GPT model.

A recent study indicates that generative AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), can be used to create a framework that accurately simulates human behavior across various scenarios. This finding provides a powerful new tool for social science research. The researchers initially recruited over 1,000 participants from diverse backgrounds in the United States and conducted in-depth interviews lasting up to two hours, collecting information about their life experiences, opinions, and values. Subsequently, they utilized these interview records along with a large language model to construct.

At the 2024 Baidu World Conference held at the Shanghai Expo Center, Li Yanhong, founder, chairman, and CEO of Baidu, announced an impressive achievement: the daily call volume of the Wenxin large model has exceeded 1.5 billion, a figure that has grown by more than 7.5 times in the past six months.