On March 6th, Open Source China (Open Source Consensus (Shanghai) Network Technology Co., Ltd.), a leading enterprise in the open-source technology ecosystem, announced the completion of hundreds of millions of yuan in Series C financing. This round of financing was led by Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund (Beijing Information Industry Fund), with Shenzhen Special Zone Daily Equity Investment Fund (Shenzhen Special Zone Daily) and Beijing Shanghe Momentum Private Equity Fund (Shanghe Momentum) following suit. Index Capital acted as the financial advisor. The funding will be used to deepen its AI strategy, expand its product matrix, promote intelligent solutions with software and hardware synergy, and facilitate the implementation of AI in industrial fields. Founder and Chairman

Nvidia today announced that its premier global AI conference, GTC 2025, will be held in San Jose, California from March 17th to 21st. The event is expected to draw 25,000 in-person attendees and 300,000 online viewers, showcasing the latest breakthroughs in AI and accelerated computing. A highly anticipated keynote address from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will highlight the conference.

Tencent has announced the open-sourcing of its newly developed image-to-video generation framework, HunyuanVideo-I2V. This release follows the successful open-sourcing of HunyuanVideo and aims to further advancements within the open-source community. HunyuanVideo-I2V incorporates cutting-edge video generation technology, enabling the transformation of static images into dynamic video content, offering creators expanded possibilities. HunyuanVideo-I2V leverages a pre-trained...

Today at noon, Manus, the world's first general-purpose AI agent, officially joined Weibo, sparking enthusiastic attention and discussion among netizens. According to Weibo's AI official account, Manus is not just a smart assistant, but a "hands-on" super colleague capable of handling various tasks with a single instruction. From resume screening and travel planning to data analysis, PPT creation, and even coding and deploying web games, Manus is poised to become an efficiency powerhouse for office workers, students, and entrepreneurs alike.

On March 6th, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) announced the open-sourcing of its multimodal vector model, BGE-VL. This achievement marks a significant breakthrough in the field of multimodal retrieval. The BGE-VL model achieves state-of-the-art results on various multimodal retrieval tasks, including image-text retrieval and compositional image retrieval, significantly improving the performance of multimodal retrieval.

A groundbreaking AI-powered ultrasound technology has won a million-dollar prize, promising a revolution in heart health diagnostics and paving the way for more accessible and accurate cardiac care.

IBM has released Granite 3.2, a smaller AI model designed for efficient inference and practical applications. This release focuses on delivering strong performance with reduced computational resources.