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1. Volcano Engine launches Doubao 2.1 Pro: Daily functions confirmed free, will launch a professional office mode
Doubao's large model received a major upgrade at the FORCE Original Power Conference hosted by Volcano Engine, with the release of multiple new model versions. It clearly outlined a dual strategy of free daily functions and paid professional versions, marking further expansion in the field of AI commercialization.
AiBase Highlights:
🧠 Doubao Large Model 2.1Pro achieved significant upgrades in Coding, Agent, and VLM directions.
💼 Launched a "Doubao Professional Edition" office task mode for professionals, offering high-end productivity services.
💰 Doubao launched a dual layout of "free for general use, paid for professional scenarios," accelerating its commercialization process.
2. Volcano Engine launches Doubao Seedance 2.5 video model, and the Ark large model has served over 1.1 million users
Volcano Engine released the Doubao Seedance 2.5 video model at the FORCE Original Power Conference in the summer of 2026, showcasing its applications in embodied intelligence and industrial manufacturing. At the same time, Volcano Engine also launched multiple multimodal models and Agent-related tools, further solidifying its leading position in the AI field.
AiBase Highlights:
🎥 Seedance 2.5 can directly generate a 30-second native video segment, supporting the joint generation of 50 full-modal materials.
🎨 Seedream 5.0Pro has interactive precise editing and the ability to generate editable layered design diagrams.
🔊 Seed-Audio 1.0 supports multi-character dialogue and sound effect generation without any samples.
3. Shengshu Vidu Q3 launched on Huawei Cloud, creating a "made for drama" video generation solution
The article introduces the Vidu Q3 multimodal large model launched by Huawei Cloud in collaboration with Shengshu Technology. The model has significant advantages in the field of video generation, enabling efficient video creation and meeting the needs of various business scenarios.
AiBase Highlights:
🔥 Vidu Q3 supports 16-second synchronized audio-visual generation with 1080P high-definition quality.
💡 Offers Turbo and Pro versions, catering to rapid creative prototyping and top-quality projects respectively.
🌟 Integrates multilingual text rendering and output functions, aiding in the professionalization of film production.
4. Baichuan Intelligent releases M4 model, achieving "real doctor" style proactive diagnosis
Baichuan-M4, a medical large model developed by Baichuan Intelligent in collaboration with Tsinghua University, performed exceptionally well in the HealthBench evaluation, demonstrating medical expertise exceeding GPT-5.5. Through proactive diagnosis, full medical history memory, and evidence anchoring technology, the model significantly improves the efficiency and accuracy of medical diagnosis, providing reliable diagnostic references for areas with scarce medical resources and promoting the popularization of AI+healthcare applications.
AiBase Highlights:
🧠 Baichuan-M4 enhances the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis through proactive questioning.
🔄 The full medical history memory function integrates patient history information, ensuring continuity in treatment.
🔗 Evidence anchoring technology enables accurate referencing of medical conclusions, enhancing decision-making rigor.
5. MiniMax's first restricted share unlocking on July 9th, Alibaba and MiHoYo confirm no selling
MiniMax will have its first restricted share unlocking on July 9, 2026. Alibaba and MiHoYo have committed to long-term holding without selling. The founding team voluntarily set a 12-month share lock-up period, higher than industry standards. At the same time, the long-term holding commitments from industry shareholders and the extended lock-up period of the founding team form synergy, building a stable equity structure.
AiBase Highlights:
📅 MiniMax will have its first restricted share unlocking on July 9, 2026.
🤝 Alibaba and MiHoYo have pledged to hold shares long-term without selling, showing confidence in the company.
🔒 The founding team voluntarily set a 12-month share lock-up period, exceeding the industry standard.
6. Google DeepMind invests $75 million to sign A24, jointly develop AI tools for Hollywood movie production
Google's DeepMind has reached a $75 million strategic partnership with A24 to jointly develop AI tools for film production. This move marks that tech giants are accelerating the integration of AI technology into the core creative processes of Hollywood and bringing new changes to the film industry.
AiBase Highlights:
🚀 Google DeepMind and A24 have reached a $75 million strategic partnership to jointly develop AI film production tools.
🎬 As a well-known film company, A24's artistic genes will provide strong endorsement for the practicality of AI tools.
💡 This collaboration will further reshape the boundary between technology and traditional audiovisual art, driving the film industry into a new stage of industrialization.
7. FastTech AI chip company "Lingchuan Technology" secures tens of millions in Series A+ funding, SL200 chip sales near 100,000 units
Lingchuan Technology, a hardware infrastructure software company focused on the underlying computing power of multimodal large models such as intelligent video and generative video, recently announced a Series A+ funding round worth tens of millions. Its core SoC chip SL200 has won the commercial encoder sub-category for three consecutive years in the global video encoding competition, and it improves compression efficiency by 30%–35% compared to NVIDIA's latest AV1 solution. Currently, SL200 has sold nearly 100,000 units and is fully deployed on mainstream internet companies such as Kuaishou, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Cloud, and Bilibili. It has also completed multi-scenario solutions with Huawei and Superchip.
AiBase Highlights:
🧠 Lingchuan Technology introduced an innovative delay-deterministic DiPU architecture and a unified computing platform LUCAS.
🚀 SL200 chip has won the commercial encoder sub-category for three consecutive years in the video encoding competition.
💡 Lingchuan Technology, through soft-hardware collaborative optimization capabilities, has become an important force in promoting domestic AI inference and intelligent video computing power autonomy and control.
8. Jia Yulang's Futurist Embodied Intelligence Robot officially goes on sale
Jia Yulang's Futurist embodied intelligence robot officially went on sale, priced at $89,900, supporting the Nvidia Sonic system, redefining the cost-performance benchmark for full-size humanoid robots and promoting the progress of academic research and technological application.
AiBase Highlights:
🤖 The full-size humanoid robot Futurist officially goes on sale, priced at $89,900, including a $10,000 Skills package.
🧠 Supports the Nvidia Sonic full-size humanoid robot whole-body motion control system, featuring high-level computing power and control capabilities.
📊 Redefines the cost-performance benchmark for full-size humanoid robots, promoting research and technological application in embodied intelligence in universities and research institutions.
