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The 2025 Gaokao volunteer application service has concluded, with data from the Quark platform showing that its AI service has set multiple records: serving over 40 million users, generating 12 million volunteer reports, and answering 330 million questions. The three core features launched this year are based on a self-developed Gaokao large model, achieving intelligent assistance throughout the entire process from consultation to decision-making. Notably, students' questions have shown a trend towards deeper personalization, with complex questions doubling in proportion. The platform has also extended its AI services to rural areas through the Warm Light Project, serving a cumulative total of 160 million users over five years, demonstrating

Shanghai has introduced 17 measures to promote the high-quality development of the software and information services industry. From January to May 2023, the industry's revenue exceeded 690 billion yuan, representing a year-on-year growth of 20.4%. The policy highlights include rewards for enterprises with revenue exceeding 2 billion yuan and meeting growth targets; small and medium-sized enterprises can receive up to 30 million yuan in tiered rewards; small enterprises can receive growth rewards of 300,000 to 500,000 yuan. Priority is given to the AI field, with computing vouchers to reduce model application costs, and excellent AI projects can receive subsidies of up to 30%-50%. Meanwhile, it promotes the innovation and development of high-end software and digital content.

In August 2024, iFlytek officially launched the Starfire Ultra Human-like Interactive Technology. Through end-to-end speech modeling and multi-dimensional emotional disentanglement training, it achieves three core breakthroughs: response speed, emotional resonance, and controllable speech expression. This technology can accurately detect emotional fluctuations in user speech and respond with appropriate tone in real time, while supporting dynamic adjustment of speech rate, voice, and character settings. It marks a significant leap from 'functional implementation' to 'emotional connection' in voice interaction. Currently, the Super Human-like Interactive API has been officially launched on the iFlytek Open Platform, allowing developers to access the technology at a low cost.

Since July, Xiaomi App Store will gradually open AI intelligent agent distribution services to users. After opening the Xiaomi App Store APP, users can click on the newly added 【Intelligent Agent】 entry at the bottom to directly access the special zone and browse and experience various practical and interesting AI intelligent agent products. At the same time, users can also quickly locate the desired service through the search function. The entire process does not require downloading or installing, truly achieving the convenient experience of "instant use." This innovative model not only lowers the threshold for users to access AI services, but also enhances the efficiency of service delivery through scenario-based recommendations. It is worth noting that

Recently, Google announced that the API of its flagship AI model, Gemini2.5Pro, has been reintroduced to the free tier of Google AI Studio. This news has triggered widespread attention and enthusiastic discussions within the developer community. According to AIbase, this move marks another important advancement in Google's efforts to popularize AI technology, offering developers lower barriers to innovation. As the most advanced AI model from Google so far, Gemini2.5Pro is known for its exceptional multimodal capabilities and strong reasoning power.

OpenAI announced the official opening of API access to its deep research models, providing developers with a powerful set of tools including automatic web search, data analysis, MCP (Model Communication Protocol), and code execution. The models opened include the deep research versions of o3 and o4-mini, which have already been used in ChatGPT. Now, developers can directly call these models via API. These models are particularly suitable for complex tasks that require obtaining the latest information and performing advanced reasoning. In terms of function expansion, o3,

Recently, Google officially launched its latest text-to-image model **Imagen4** through the Gemini API, marking an important milestone in the field of generative AI (AIGC). According to Google's official blog and community feedback, Imagen4 has achieved breakthroughs in generating text within images, solving a long-standing technical bottleneck in AIGC, and providing developers with a tool for creating high-quality visual content. It is reported that the model comes in two versions: **Imagen4** and **Imagen4Ultra**, with respective pricing details yet to be fully disclosed.

Recently, a media outlet revealed that the user growth team at ByteDance developed an AI product called 'Tante Fan'. This product uses the large model

Recently, AI Infrastructure company SiliconBase Flow officially announced a strategic cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. SiliconBase Flow has joined the "Alibaba Cloud Flower Program" and entered the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. This collaboration marks the beginning of deep cooperation in the AI field, working together to promote the development of large model services. According to the cooperation content, the core API services of SiliconBase Flow's large model inference platform, SiliconCloud, will fully integrate into Alibaba Cloud Bailian Platform, supported by Alibaba Cloud Lingjun Intelligent Computing Clusters, providing convenient and efficient large model services for cloud customers.

The plan's advancement has triggered dissatisfaction among developers. According to VentureBeat, OpenAI's current API deprecation involves the GPT-4.5 Preview version, which is an intermediary model launched between GPT-4 and GPT-5. Multiple developers have stated that this sudden change has disrupted their development plans, forcing significant adjustments to applications already built based on this API. A developer who wished to remain anonymous commented: We understand the necessity of technological iteration, but the lack of sufficient buffer time in the schedule has brought additional pressure to development teams.

Google Cloud services experienced a severe outage worldwide, causing many large internet services to become paralyzed or interrupted. The wide impact of this outage left many users frustrated. According to Google Cloud's status page, the fault occurred at 10:51 AM Pacific Time, after which the Google Cloud team immediately initiated an investigation into the issue. Image source notes: The image is generated by AI, and the image license service provider Midjourney was affected after the incident. Google engineers stated that they are continuously making efforts to restore the service. However, as time went on...

Recently, a serious global outage occurred in the Google Cloud service, affecting several large internet platforms including OpenAI and Shopify. This downtime impacted users in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with 13 core services from Google Cloud experiencing failures, causing many users to be unable to access these services normally. This has caused significant disruptions to business operations. The specific cause of the outage is currently unclear, and Google has stated it is investigating the issue and working to restore services, but no specific repair timeline has been provided yet. This incident has triggered concerns among users.

Recently, Alibaba Cloud officially announced that BYD successfully integrated the Alibaba Qwen large model. This means that in the future within BYD's smart cockpit, users will be able to easily achieve online services such as ticket booking and meal ordering with just one sentence. This new technology will greatly enhance the driving experience and provide more convenient services. This innovation is called Mobile-Agent and adopts a full visual solution. It relies on BYD's open cockpit application ecosystem and combines the visual recognition and reasoning capabilities of Alibaba Qwen-VL to build a multi-modal system.

Recently, Amazon announced a major investment plan to expand its data center infrastructure by investing at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania, USA. This move is not only a continuation of Amazon's ongoing investment in the field of artificial intelligence but also a forward-looking layout for future technological development. Amazon’s investment background is closely related to industry trends. With the rapid development of generative AI technology, an increasing number of enterprises realize the importance of improving data processing capabilities for innovation and competition. Therefore, Amazon hopes to expand its data centers to...

Against the backdrop of artificial intelligence (AI) gradually permeating various industries, Thrive Holdings — established by renowned venture capital firm Thrive Capital — joins hands with ZBS Partners to invest $100 million in a new platform aimed at bringing AI technology into the IT services sector. This entity named Shield Technology Partners has successfully acquired four IT service companies, including

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, ChatGPT's influence in enterprise users is also increasing. OpenAI recently announced that ChatGPT can now connect to multiple external services, further enhancing its application effectiveness in the business field. This move aims to provide users with richer and more real-time contextual information, making its responses more precise and useful. Currently, the external connection services supported by ChatGPT include Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams.