Generating charts that accurately reflect complex data remains a subtle challenge in today's data visualization landscape. Charts require not only precise layout, color, and text placement, but also the translation of these visual details into code to reproduce the intended design. However, traditional methods often rely on directly prompting vision-language models (VLMs), such as GPT-4V, which frequently struggle to translate complex visual elements into grammatically correct Python code. Even minor errors can result in charts failing to meet their design objectives.

On February 25th, Baidu announced that its no-code development tool, "Miaoda," has officially opened its user invitation test. Users can access the Miaoda homepage through the invitation email they received and experience features including H5 page development and website development. Baidu stated that more features will be opened to users in the future. As of now, the number of enterprise users queuing up for the test has surpassed 20,000.

According to foreign media reports, Apple may be planning to integrate Google's Gemini AI model into its Apple Intelligence system. This news comes from firmware analyst Aaron Perris's research of the code in the first beta of iOS 18.4, where he discovered new references in the backend code that include "Google" as a third-party model option. This finding aligns with Apple's previous strategic layout. According to 9to5Mac, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi,

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.

On February 18th, Shanghai Mita Network Technology Co., Ltd. announced the launch of its latest research mode - 'Shallow Research'. This feature aims to quickly gather information and conduct preliminary analysis using AI technology, helping users obtain valuable research results in a short amount of time.

Baichuan Intelligent announced today that its 'AI Pediatrician', developed in collaboration with Beijing Children's Hospital and Pediatric Health Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., has officially entered clinical application after nearly a month of internal testing and expert approval. This milestone development marks an important step in the in-depth application of AI technology in the medical field. Image Source Note: Image generated by AI, authorized by Midjourney, was first launched yesterday by the National Children's Medical Center at Capital Medical University affiliated Beijing Children's Hospital featuring 'AI Pediatrician + Multidisciplinary'.

Today, at the World Governments Summit 2025 held in Dubai, UAE, Joe Tsai, co-founder and chairman of Alibaba, officially responded to recent rumors about Alibaba's collaboration with Apple. He revealed that Apple was looking for a partner in China that could provide localized support for its phone services. Throughout this process, Apple exhibited very high selection criteria and engaged in in-depth discussions with several Chinese companies. Ultimately, Alibaba stood out and became Apple's partner.

Recently, reports have emerged indicating that Google has entered into close cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) following the outbreak of conflict with Hamas. This information comes from internal company documents obtained by The Washington Post, which reveal that employees from Google Cloud responded directly to requests from the Israeli military for AI tools in the weeks following the conflict. It is understood that after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7th, Google Cloud employees established contact with the IDF and emphasized the urgent need for responses in internal discussions.

Recently, Tencent Meeting announced a significant product upgrade with the official launch of AI Assistant Pro, and it has comprehensively optimized its organizational collaboration features. This news has attracted widespread attention. It is reported that AI Assistant Pro is an intelligent tool built on Tencent's trillion-parameter model. It can deeply understand and quickly respond to meeting information, providing users with more precise and targeted answers based on historical and real-time meeting content. This smart assistant not only supports online searches but can also handle questions related to documents or images, and assist in content creation and reporting.

On December 12, Peking University and ByteDance officially announced the establishment of the Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Laboratory, marking a new milestone in the collaboration between industry, academia, and research in China's AI field. The research work of the joint laboratory will be based on the Doubao large model independently developed by ByteDance. Researchers from universities and enterprises will conduct in-depth research on key technologies such as model training and inference within the laboratory. With the construction and development of the laboratory, a large number of Peking University students will also enter the laboratory for internships, working side by side with industry researchers.