Li Liang pointed out that an article titled 'Byte's AI Team Major Restructuring' contains multiple instances of misinformation. Claims in the article regarding the technology vice president Yang Zhen's impending retirement and Feng Jia's departure to start a business are all due to erroneous sources. Additionally, reports about Zhang Yiming visiting Wang Junyu, the founder of Wandoujia, and the Shanghai Mosu Space startup company are also inconsistent with the facts.

What Worth Buying recently announced that its smart assistant has officially joined the 'Brand Zone' of Doubao, an AI assistant under ByteDance. As a smart shopping assistant, this smart entity will provide users with services such as reputation summaries, product comparisons, and comprehensive price comparisons across the internet, helping consumers enhance decision-making efficiency. According to Wang Yunfeng, CTO of Worth Buying Technology, the company is advancing the deep integration of AI technology. The DeepSeek-R1 model has already been integrated into specific business scenarios, significantly enhancing AIGC creative capabilities. In terms of partners, the company has collaborated with partners like Moon's Dark Side and Zhicheng.

On February 19, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its multimodal creation platform 'Qingying' has formed a strategic partnership with the AI character creation platform 'NianTa'. Together, they will explore a complete path from AI character design to animation creation, and promote the technological realization of IP consistency. This collaboration aims to deeply explore the needs of secondary dimension users and AI application scenarios, providing users with higher quality generation effects and faster inference speeds.

Today, Baidu's Xiaodu officially announced its integration with DeepSeek. Previously, Baidu Maps, Baidu Search, Baidu Apollo Smart Cabin Model, Wenxin Yiyan, and Wenxiaoyan App have successively integrated with DeepSeek.

Today, Baidu officially released its financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year ended December 31, 2024. The data shows that in the fourth quarter of 2024, Baidu achieved revenue of 34.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year decline of 2%; total annual revenue reached 133.1 billion yuan, down 1% year-on-year. The net profit attributable to Baidu for the fourth quarter was 5.2 billion yuan, with a non-GAAP net profit of 6.7 billion yuan; the total annual net profit attributable to Baidu was 23.8 billion yuan, with a non-GAAP net profit of 27 billion yuan.

Recently, Shenzhen Futian District and Guangzhou announced the launch of 'AI Civil Servants' (Smart Employees) based on the DeepSeek large model, marking a significant step forward in smart governance development for both regions. According to the 'Happy Futian' public account, Futian District has introduced AI smart employees developed based on DeepSeek and upgraded its governance large model to version 2.0. These 'smart employees' not only possess the general capabilities of DeepSeek but also offer personalized adaptations to the actual business processes of various departments.

Today, Baidu announced an important plan: in the coming months, it will gradually launch the new Ernie Large Model 4.5 series, which is scheduled to be officially open-sourced to the public on June 30. This initiative marks Baidu's continued dedication and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.

On February 12, Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform launched several heavyweight AI models, including DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B, among six models in total, further enriching its AI model matrix. At the same time, Tongyi Lingma also announced the launch of a new model selection feature, supporting the full-version 671B models of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 based on the Bailian platform, injecting new vitality into the field of AI programming.

Recently, Baidu's Ernie Bot officially announced that starting from 12:00 AM on April 1, 2024, its services will be fully available for free to all PC and app users. This means that users will not need to pay any fees to experience the latest features of the Ernie Bot series models.

At the recent 360 Nano AI search event for new energy vehicles, Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Group, shared in-depth insights on the widely-discussed DeepSeek. He highly praised its open-source spirit and its positive role in advancing the industry.

Recent reports indicate that Alibaba will collaborate with Apple to develop new artificial intelligence features for iPhone users in the Chinese market. This initiative is seen as an important strategy for Apple to address declining sales in China, aiming to provide a more appealing software experience for users. Insiders reveal that Apple has been testing various AI models from well-known Chinese developers since 2023. After a series of evaluations, Apple partnered with Baidu last year, becoming its primary AI technology supplier.

Recently, Yikatong (Hubei) Technology Co., Ltd. has attracted widespread attention both inside and outside the industry by applying for multiple trademarks related to 'AutoGPT' in bulk. These trademark applications cover various fields including scientific instruments, communication services, and advertising sales, indicating that Yikatong is actively positioning itself in AI-related businesses. From market trends, this move not only reinforces the company's existing technological capabilities but also represents an important part of its future strategic planning. In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology...

Recently, Huggingface, the world's largest open source AI community, released the latest Open LLM Leaderboard. The results show that all ten of the top-ranked open source large models are derivative models that have been fine-tuned based on Alibaba Tongyi Qwen's (Qwen) open-source model. This achievement marks Qwen's dominant position in the open-source AI field and further enhances its global influence. The Open LLM Leaderboard is widely...

Recently, Tongyi Laboratory officially open-sourced its innovative music generation technology - InspireMusic. This technology aims to create an open-source AIGC toolkit that integrates music, song, and audio generation capabilities, providing researchers, developers, and music enthusiasts with a comprehensive creative platform. InspireMusic offers researchers and developers rich tools for training and fine-tuning music/song/audio generation models, as well as efficient models to optimize generation results. Meanwhile, this toolkit...

Recently, the purebred version of Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT received a significant update, with its built-in XiaoYi assistant app successfully integrating with the artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek. At the same time, the Intelligent Agent Plaza has officially launched the Beta version of DeepSeek-R1, bringing users a smarter and more convenient experience.