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Traini, an AI-powered pet language translation app, has quickly gained popularity in the English mobile market since its launch. Developed in collaboration with animal behaviorists, Traini utilizes photo, video, and sound analysis to bridge the communication gap between humans and dogs, offering pet owners a revolutionary way to interact with their beloved companions.

Amap announced the launch of the world's first map-based AI navigation agent, officially launching nationwide. This innovative initiative marks a transformation of navigation services from traditional travel tools to intelligent travel companions that can think, predict, and are empathetic.

Kingsoft Cloud announced that its StarStream training and inference platform has fully integrated with Zhipu's GLM series inference models, becoming one of the first platforms to integrate this series. This move marks Kingsoft Cloud's further expansion in the AI field, providing users with more efficient, intelligent, and cost-effective model services.

AMD's advancements in AI are noteworthy, particularly its latest optimizations for the Stable Diffusion model. Recently, Stability AI released an ONNX-optimized version of Stable Diffusion, resulting in significantly improved performance for AMD Radeon GPUs and Ryzen integrated graphics in AI tasks, with speed increases up to 3.8 times faster. This progress narrows the gap with NVIDIA's ecosystem...

As the challenges and pressures faced by the banking industry in digital transformation intensify, more and more banks are beginning to integrate large model technology into their core businesses, rather than simply relying on chatbot applications. The latest financial reports show that some major domestic banks have made significant progress in technology investment and large model applications, but also reveal a trend of differentiated investment. According to an analysis of ten major banks by Titanium Media App, including the six major state-owned banks and several joint-stock banks, six of them have seen a reduction in technology investment. For example,

Blender-MCP (Model Context Protocol) has been officially open-sourced, enabling seamless integration of Anthropic's Claude AI with Blender. This breakthrough allows users to create complex 3D scenes using natural language prompts. According to AIbase, the tool allows users to generate sophisticated 3D models with text descriptions alone, such as a scene depicting a low-poly dragon guarding treasure, significantly lowering the technical barrier to entry for 3D modeling. Blender-MCP

In Chengdu's sunny April, a significant breakthrough in China's AI technology development was quietly unveiled. The 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit Chengdu Conference grandly opened on April 18th, with Wang Wei, Tencent Cloud Intelligent Regional Solution Director, delivering exciting news: Tencent Cloud's large model knowledge engine has become the industry's first platform to officially integrate with MCP. This technological breakthrough means developers and enterprise users will enjoy an unprecedentedly convenient experience when building AI applications. Through Tencent Cloud's large model knowledge engine, users can easily access...

According to Qichacha APP, Hangzhou Unitree Robotics Co., Ltd. recently published a patent for "a robot and a robot control method." The abstract shows that this invention includes a robot body and a rotating performance component; the robot body is equipped with an arm for assembling the rotating performance component and an ejection motor for throwing performance props; the rotating performance component is assembled at the end of the arm, and the ejection motor provides the ejection power and kinetic energy for the outward flight of the performance props, allowing the robot to perform at least rotating and throwing dance movements, resulting in rich movements and impressive demonstrations.

Li Auto recently announced the major upgrade of its in-car intelligent assistant, Li Xiang, with the launch of its MindGPT 3.0 model. This upgrade not only marks another significant advancement for Li Auto in the field of artificial intelligence but also brings a more intelligent and efficient user experience.

At the grand opening of the 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference in Chengdu, Tencent announced its latest enterprise-grade AI application – the Tencent Cloud Large Model Knowledge Engine. This innovative tool aims to provide businesses with more flexible atomic capabilities and application development models, helping them build their own knowledge management systems. The Tencent Cloud Large Model Knowledge Engine has reportedly been successfully implemented in various sectors, including finance, energy, transportation, retail, healthcare, government, education, and tourism. Numerous companies, such as Sichuan Wen...

With the upcoming May Day holiday, travel is once again a hot topic. Feizhu's AI product, "Ask," has recently generated buzz on Xiaohongshu, with scalpers even selling invitation codes. This seemingly ordinary chat assistant boasts powerful capabilities, enabling users to quickly book flights and hotels, achieving an ideal 'what you see is what you get' travel planning experience. Unlike previous travel AI, Feizhu's "Ask" not only provides interactive communication but also completes the process from communication to transaction in a short time.

Midjourney has announced a major update to its image editor, introducing a revamped user interface (UI), layers functionality, a smart selection tool, and a more intelligent moderation system. This update not only optimizes the user experience but also significantly enhances the flexibility and precision of AI image editing, further solidifying Midjourney's leading position in the AI art generation field. Revamped UI: More Intuitive User Experience. A major highlight of this Midjourney image editor update is the newly designed user interface.

Recently, BMW Brilliance Lynk & Co Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Lynk & Co) and ByteDance's Volcano Engine have partnered to innovate automotive marketing services with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. This collaboration leverages AI to achieve precise product matching and purchase recommendations, optimize content guidance, and enhance the user car-buying experience and dealer operational efficiency. BMW Group President and CEO in Greater China, Gao Xiang, stated that AI is key to BMW's creation of smarter and more considerate mobility solutions, and is being rapidly integrated into R&D, production, supply chain, product, service, and operations.

OpenAI recently released a practical guide to building agents, a true handbook for AI practitioners! This guide will demystify the process of creating your own AI agents in a fun and accessible way. Get ready to learn the essentials! But first, what exactly is an Agent...?

At the recently concluded 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit Chengdu Forum, Tencent Cloud Vice President Wang Qi delivered a compelling speech on how enterprises can effectively implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. He highlighted that combining large models with knowledge bases is currently the optimal path for enterprises to achieve AI implementation. Wang Qi emphasized that Tencent Cloud adheres to a "core technology self-research + embracing advanced open source" multi-model strategy, a philosophy that permeates Tencent's comprehensive layout across underlying computing power, foundational large models, model development platforms, and intelligent applications. Image source note:

Amidst the rapid growth of the AI industry, Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced AI benchmarking project, is expanding its reach by officially launching a new company, Arena Intelligence Inc. According to Bloomberg, Chatbot Arena aims to leverage this new entity to secure more resources, significantly enhancing the platform's functionality and services. Founded in 2023, Chatbot Arena is primarily spearheaded by the University of California, Berkeley...