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OpenAI seeks $40B funding for 'Stargate' AI project amid financial crisis. SoftBank's $10B investment may withdraw due to location disputes. With $10B revenue but $5B annual loss, profitability is expected by 2029. Recent $30B Oracle deal and talks with Saudi/Indian investors. Internal issues (failed acquisitions, talent drain) and Meta competition raise market concerns.....

Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder tops Hugging Face's model rankings as the hottest open-source AI coding model, outperforming GPT-4.1 and Claude4 with its MoE architecture, excelling in multi-agent tasks, and surpassing 20M downloads. Tech leaders praise it as a breakthrough for Chinese open-source AI.....

The Qwen-MT machine translation model is officially released. Qwen-MT is based on the powerful Qwen 3 model, and has been trained on a massive amount of multilingual and translation data. It combines reinforcement learning technology to significantly improve the accuracy and fluency of translation results. Developers can experience its fast and accurate translation capabilities directly through the Qwen API (qwen-mt-turbo). The core highlights of Qwen-MT include supporting bidirectional translation between 92 languages, covering more than 95% of the global population, and meeting a wide range of language communication needs.

AI office company PixelBloom completes B3 funding round, led by Yizhuang Guotou, with participation from multiple renowned institutions. The funds will be used for two strategic initiatives: accelerating global expansion and consolidating the leading position of AiPPT.com in international markets; expanding the AI Venture Studio model to incubate innovative office products. This funding round reflects market recognition of its technological capabilities and development prospects. In the future, it will promote the construction of the AI office ecosystem and enhance the intelligent office experience for global users.

Metasearch offers a cost-effective Bing API alternative with multilingual index, multi-modal search, and developer-friendly APIs at $0.03/query.....

Mita AI Search announced the official launch of its search API, offering developers a new alternative to Bing Search API. With the upcoming shutdown of Bing Search API in August 2025, Mita's initiative undoubtedly brings new hope to many enterprises and developers who rely on search APIs. Over the past year, Mita has built a multilingual index database with hundreds of billions of entries, which has been tested through daily millions of calls in Mita AI Search. Now

Hedra introduces Hedra Live Avatars: low-cost ($0.05/min), ultra-low latency (<100ms), AI-compatible video generation from static images. Ideal for content, education, customer service, and gaming. Free trial available, with multi-modal upgrades planned.....

OpenAI partners with Oracle for $30B cloud deal, part of 'Stargate' project with 4.5GW data centers. Oracle's stock hit record high, boosting Ellison to world's 2nd richest. OpenAI's $10B revenue tripled by this deal. Oracle to invest $50B in data centers amid energy/funding challenges.....

Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder, a 48B-parameter MoE-based AI model, excels in complex programming tasks with 256K context support. Trained on 7.5TB data, it outperforms GPT4.1 in benchmarks and is open-sourced on ModelScope and Alibaba Cloud.....

On July 23, Alibaba Cloud officially announced that its latest AI programming large model, Qwen3-Coder, is fully open-sourced, which quickly sparked a buzz in the field of intelligent programming. Qwen3-Coder has achieved top performance among open-source models in agentic coding, agentic browser use, and basic coding tasks, thanks to its outstanding code generation and agent capabilities, marking a new stage in intelligent programming technology. The Qwen3-Coder model series provides

Alibaba collaborates with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications to launch the FantasyPortrait digital human animation project. It employs an innovative expression-enhanced diffusion transformer technology to achieve complex emotional expressions and cross-identity expression transfer in single or multi-person scenarios. The technology supports multimodal driving and can be applied to both human and animal characters, as well as audio-driven functions. The project will open-source its code in the future, providing high-quality digital human animation solutions for fields such as film, gaming, and virtual reality, promoting technological development in the industry.

NTU's 'WORLDMEM' model enhances virtual reality with long-term scene consistency via innovative memory mechanisms and conditional diffusion transformers.....

Recently, ByteDance's Seed team officially launched a new Vision-Language-Action Model (VLA) called GR-3. This model demonstrates breakthrough capabilities in the field of robotic manipulation, not only understanding language instructions that include abstract concepts, but also precisely handling flexible objects. It also has the ability to generalize quickly to new tasks and recognize new objects. This achievement is seen as an important advancement toward a 'general-purpose robot brain'. Traditional robotic manipulation models often rely on large amounts of robotic trajectory data for training.

Alibaba's Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507-FP8 update features non-thinking mode and 256K context length. Open-sourced on ModelScope/HuggingFace, enhancing complex AI tasks and text generation.....

Volc Engine, a subsidiary of ByteDance, is testing its new digital human platform, Chimera, which is based on AI large model technology and offers functions such as digital human generation and picture clothing changes. It is currently in a targeted invitation test phase, and public beta testing is expected to open by the end of the month. Subsequently, it will charge based on usage volume. In recent years, Volc Engine has continuously focused on the digital human field, obtaining digital human system certification in 2022, launching three types of digital human products in 2023, and collaborating with multiple companies to implement solution projects in financial and marketing scenarios in 2024. (140 characters)

WordPecker is an open-source AI language learning tool featuring personalized vocab extraction, 100+ languages, voice chat with OpenAI Agent, and interactive exercises. It represents the future of smart language learning.....

Stability-AI's SPAR3D model revolutionizes 3D reconstruction from single images in 0.7s, combining regression and generative modeling via a two-stage point sampling and meshing architecture. It outperforms traditional methods in geometric accuracy and texture quality on GSO and OmniObject3D datasets. Open-sourced.....

Moonshot AI's open-source model Kimi K2 excels in programming, matching Qwen3-235B-A22B and nearing o3-mini-high & Claude-3.7-Sonnet. With 1T MoE, 128k context, 65.8% accuracy on SWE-bench, and $0.14/M tokens, it's ideal for coding. Supports web generation, workflows, vLLM/Hugging Face deployment, MIT-licensed.....