Alibaba's stock has shown remarkable performance recently, continuously climbing and attracting widespread attention from investors. The well-known e-commerce giant released an unexpectedly positive financial report last week, exceeding market expectations and further solidifying its position in the industry. The company not only achieved revenue growth but also demonstrated strong profitability, showcasing its robust market competitiveness. Notably, Alibaba announced a partnership with Apple in the Chinese market to support AI services for the iPhone. This news undoubtedly boosted its stock price.

Chipotle Mexican Grill recently announced plans to hire 20,000 new employees as the 'Burrito Season' approaches. This recruitment drive aims to address the upcoming peak dining season. The company's Chief Human Resources Officer, Ilene Eskenazi, stated that these positions offer applicants a great career starting point and help them achieve their career goals within the company. Eskenazi pointed out that many current...

With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence technology, OpenAI has demonstrated strong growth momentum in the market. OpenAI's COO, Brad Lightcap, revealed in an interview that as of February this year, the weekly active user count for the popular product ChatGPT has reached 400 million, a 33% increase from 300 million users in December last year. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. Lightcap stated that ChatG

At the recent 'Invest Karnataka 2025' conference held in Bangalore, numerous leaders from the technology industry gathered to discuss the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in India and its impacts. Manish Gupta, Senior Director at Google DeepMind, delivered a key speech at the conference, emphasizing the need to establish corresponding regulations alongside technological innovation to ensure responsible development. Note: Image generated by AI, image courtesy service provider Midjourney.

Amid the increasing importance of industrial automation and smart manufacturing, the startup Augury has announced the successful raising of $75 million, achieving a valuation of over $1 billion. This funding will be used to attract new customers and further develop its core technology. Augury specializes in using artificial intelligence to monitor machine operating conditions, promptly identifying equipment failures and maintenance needs by measuring various factors such as vibration, sound, and temperature. Since its establishment, Augury has monitored over 500 million hours of machine operations, covering a wide range of equipment manufacturers and processing methods.

Recently, Google announced the release of a brand new Vision-Language Model (VLM) called PaliGemma 2 Mix. This model combines image processing and natural language processing capabilities, allowing it to understand visual information and text input simultaneously, generating corresponding outputs as needed. This marks a significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology for multi-task processing. PaliGemma 2 Mix boasts powerful features, integrating image description and optical character recognition.

Recently, UK-based AI and robotics startup Humanoid unveiled its versatile humanoid robot HMND01 in a new video. This robot features a bipedal design that mimics human movement and actions, equipped with a head, torso, arms, and legs, along with fingered hands that possess high-speed and precise operational capabilities, enabling it to perform complex tasks. This is made possible by its numerous high-torque and high-speed actuators. Humanoid's founder and serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov stated, 'The greatest achievement of humanoid robots is to...'

Recently, Meta officially announced a major project named Project Waterworth. This initiative represents a multi-billion dollar investment spanning several years, aimed at constructing an undersea cable exceeding 50,000 kilometers to support global AI infrastructure. Once completed, this undersea cable project will become the longest in the world, capable of withstanding damage from ship anchors and other hazards. According to the project plan, the cable will extend from the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast, with depths reaching up to 7,000.

Recently, the Arc Institute partnered with NVIDIA, along with researchers from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, to jointly release the world's largest biological artificial intelligence model — Evo2. This model is based on data from over 128,000 genomes, training on 93 trillion nucleotides, making its scale comparable to the most powerful generative AI language models. Evo2's deep learning capabilities enable it to rapidly identify sequences of genes across different organisms.

Crunchbase announced that it will abandon its role as a historical data provider and transform into an AI-driven prediction engine. This new platform will be able to predict startup funding rounds, acquisitions, and growth trajectories with an accuracy of up to 95%, marking a significant strategic shift for Crunchbase. Crunchbase CEO Jagger McConnell stated in an interview that the traditional historical data industry is in decline. He believes that data companies relying solely on historical data...

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, an increasing number of local governments are beginning to incorporate AI into their administrative services, aiming to enhance service quality and efficiency through intelligent means. Recently, the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone and Shenzhen Futian District have launched smart government assistants based on the DeepSeek large model, marking an important step in the application of AI in the government sector. In the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the new smart government assistant has officially been put into use after testing by multiple enterprises. This assistant can not only handle consulting tasks but also perform...

According to reports, Alibaba recently announced a large-scale recruitment drive, aiming to open hundreds of job positions, with 90% of the roles related to artificial intelligence (AI). This initiative primarily focuses on Alibaba's AI To C business, which is the consumer-facing artificial intelligence business system, covering multiple products and teams, including Quark, Tongyi, a spin-off from Alibaba Cloud, and the Tmall Genie team. The recruitment will specifically target talents in cutting-edge technologies and applications such as text processing, multimodal large models, and AI agents.

In the field of artificial intelligence, the DeepSeek team recently released their latest research成果, introducing an innovative sparse attention mechanism named NSA (Native Sparse Attention). The core objective of this technology is to enhance the speed of long context training and inference, particularly optimized for modern hardware, significantly improving the efficiency of training and inference. The launch of NSA technology brings significant changes to the training of artificial intelligence models. Firstly, it utilizes a series of advancements tailored for modern computational hardware.

OpenAI is exploring a new plan aimed at protecting its control after transitioning to a for-profit entity. This decision is primarily in response to possible hostile takeovers, particularly threats from billionaire Musk. OpenAI was originally a nonprofit organization; in the context of rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology, it decided to shift to a for-profit model to attract more investment and funding. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, with image licensing provided by Midjourney, for which OpenAI is considering special voting rights for its nonprofit board.

xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, unveiled its latest flagship AI model Grok3 on Monday evening, along with new features for iOS and web applications. Grok is xAI's response to models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini, equipped with capabilities to analyze images and answer questions, offering multiple features on Musk's social network X. The development of Grok3 took several months, although it was initially expected to be released in 2024.

In the field of artificial intelligence, the rise of DeepSeek has sparked widespread attention and concern in the West. However, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch has welcomed this emerging force, believing that DeepSeek's new models will promote the development of the open source ecosystem. Mistral, dubbed the 'European OpenAI,' has consistently advocated for open source principles, emphasizing the importance of openness and collaboration since its establishment in 2023. In an interview with Business Insider,

According to reports, The New York Times recently announced that it will allow its product and editorial teams to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools, marking an important step for the media in technological innovation. The news was conveyed to employees through an internal email, which introduced a new internal AI summarization tool - Echo. In this email, The New York Times also shared a series of AI products for employees to use in building web products or developing editorial concepts. Additionally, the newspaper has established relevant editorial guidelines for using AI tools and encourages the editorial team.

According to media reports, the Foshan Artificial Intelligence Application Empowerment Center has successfully completed the deployment of DeepSeek, further enhancing the center's service capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence. According to the Foshan Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, this deployment relies on the technological strength of Guangdong Unicom, ensuring seamless adaptation of DeepSeek to domestic and mainstream computing architectures. The empowerment center supports the localized deployment of two fully functional models, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3, leveraging strong technical capabilities.

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, especially driven by countries like the United States and China, has made AI a focal point of global technological competition. To this end, the EU recently announced a funding program of up to 200 billion euros to promote development in this field. Despite Germany's strong capabilities in AI research, why hasn't a single successful AI enterprise emerged? Source: Image generated by AI, image courtesy of service provider Midjourney according to Professor Bjorn from the University of Munich.

Recently, Goldman Sachs announced in a report that it has raised the target price for Chinese stocks, expecting that the widespread application of artificial intelligence (AI) will drive corporate profit growth and could lead to $200 billion in capital inflow. Goldman Sachs believes that as AI technology continues to advance, Chinese tech companies are regaining the attention of investors. In the past week, Chinese tech stocks have experienced a strong rebound, achieving their best consecutive rise in over two years. One of the driving forces behind this surge is the AI leadership from DeepSeek.