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On June 30, Baidu officially open-sourced its latest ERNIE Bot Large Model 4.5 series, which includes a total of 10 models, including a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 47B and 3B activation parameters, as well as a dense model with 0.3B parameters. This open-source release allows developers to use these powerful models for free and provides pre-trained weights and inference code, making it easy for developers to apply them in various scenarios. During this release, Intel also demonstrated its strong technical support. By leveraging the OpenVINO toolkit, Intel provided efficient optimization for the ERNIE Bot Large Model.

Baidu officially released the ERNIE Bot 4.5 series models and made them fully open source. Users can experience this latest open-source technology immediately through ERNIE Bot (https://yiyan.baidu.com). This series includes multiple parameter configurations, such as Mixture of Experts (MoE) models with activated parameters of 47B and 3B, as well as dense models designed with 0.3B parameters, totaling ten different models. In terms of training and inference, the ERNIE 4.5 series models use PaddlePaddle deep learning.

Recently, Telegram has reached a partnership with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI to distribute the latter's chat bot Grok through Telegram and integrate it into available applications on the chat application platform for one year. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that as part of the deal, xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat application. Durov said, Te

Baidu recently launched its latest Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1 large models, both available for free trial on the Ernie Bot official website. Ernie 4.5, Baidu's first native multimodal large model, excels in multimodal understanding and logical reasoning, outperforming GPT-4.5 in various benchmark tests. Its API price is only 1% of GPT-4.5's, attracting significant attention from developers and businesses. Ernie 4.5 demonstrates remarkable advancements in multimodal understanding, showcasing...

Baidu recently quietly launched an emotional companion app called "Yuexia." The app centers around high-freedom AI dialogue and immersive script interactions, aiming to explore new directions in the entertainment and social fields.

Delta Electronics recently unveiled its D-Bot series of collaborative robots (Cobots) and several new products for the smart manufacturing market at ELECRAMA2025 in India. The event, held in Noida, northern India, aims to promote automation in smart factories. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provider Midjourney. The D-Bot series robots are specifically designed for automated tasks in smart factories and feature advanced safety mechanisms. These 6-axis collaborative robots boast a payload capacity of up to 30 kg.

On February 17, Baidu announced the official launch of the Ernie Bot free rights card, which will be fully open for free use starting April 1. This news marks another significant move by Baidu in the field of artificial intelligence, aimed at further lowering the barrier for users to access AI technology and promoting the popularization and application of artificial intelligence.

Recently, Baidu's Ernie Bot officially announced that starting from 12:00 AM on April 1, 2024, its services will be fully available for free to all PC and app users. This means that users will not need to pay any fees to experience the latest features of the Ernie Bot series models.

It is reported that with the continuous iteration and cost optimization of the Ernie Bot large model, Ernie Bot will be completely free starting from midnight on April 1st. At that time, users will be able to experience the latest models in the Ernie Bot series without any barriers, whether on PC or APP. This initiative will undoubtedly further enhance the user coverage and market influence of Ernie Bot.

The 2025 Spring Festival Gala was broadcast live on multiple television channels by the China Central Broadcasting Television. Unitree Technology from Hangzhou brought their humanoid robots to the Spring Festival stage, presenting a unique performance titled 'Yang Bot'. Directed by the famous director Zhang Yimou, the show perfectly integrated traditional culture with robotics technology. In the performance, multiple humanoid robots from Unitree donned red floral jackets and danced the Yangko while holding handkerchiefs. These robots demonstrated extremely smooth walking and were able to interact seamlessly with the dancers, accurately performing complex movements such as twirling the handkerchief.

Autonomous truck technology company Bot Auto has announced the completion of its Pre-A funding round, raising $20 million. This significant investment will accelerate Bot Auto's development of next-generation autonomous truck technology, focusing on safety and operational efficiency. Bot Auto is based in Houston, Texas, and is led by CEO and Founder Dr. Hao Xiaodi. The company comprises a team of experienced executives from the autonomous vehicle sector and top engineering talent dedicated to development.

Shen Dou, Executive Vice President of Baidu Group, announced the upgrade of the Baike Computing Platform 4.0 at the 2024 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference held today. This new version supports multi-core hybrid training and multi-core adaptation, achieving over 99.5% effective training duration on a ten-thousand-card cluster, significantly improving computing power usage efficiency. In the context of current computing power shortages, the upgrade of Baike 4.0 will help enterprises utilize computing resources more effectively and reduce operational costs. The focus of the upgrade is to enhance the capability of 'multi-core hybrid training', enabling it to achieve 9.

WechatFerry is an open source framework designed for WeChat bot development, aimed at simplifying the development process and providing comprehensive SDK encapsulation and a rich plugin ecosystem. Its core advantages lie in its efficient and highly customizable solutions, supporting a full range of WeChat operations, including message listening, sending, group chat management, and more. The framework includes multiple components and modules suitable for personalized function implementation in different scenarios. The WCF SDK client offers extensive support for WeChat operations, ensuring efficiency and stability in operations. The Agent library provides a simple and user-friendly...

This article reports on a rare case in the music industry, where North Carolina musician Michael Smith is accused of fraudulently using artificial intelligence and bot accounts to generate over ten million dollars in illegal income from streaming platforms. He collaborated with an accomplice to purchase AI-generated songs and artificially inflated play counts on platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music to reach billions of plays. Smith registered bot accounts under fake names to distribute traffic.

At the 2024 World Robot Conference, Zhi Ping Fang (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. launched its new universal intelligent robot, Alpha Bot 1S. This robot is equipped with Zhi Ping Fang's self-developed universal embodied intelligent system, AI2R Brain, providing high flexibility, perception capabilities, and operational range. Through an innovative combination of wheeled design, folding lift structure, and high-degree-of-freedom robotic arms, Alpha Bot 1S shows significant improvements over its predecessor in terms of joint count, sensor count, and battery life. Alpha Bot 1S acts as an AI2

Anthropic's ClaudeBot web crawler frequently accessed the iFixit website within 24 hours, allegedly violating terms of use by unauthorized content usage and consuming development resources. iFixit has added a crawl-delay extension in robots.txt to limit crawler access. This incident also affected other websites, such as Read the Docs and Freelancer.com. AI companies like OpenAI refuse crawler access through robots.txt.

During the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Baidu's Vice President Xie Guangjun announced the full opening of the Wenxin Yiyan 4.0 Turbo model to enterprise users, and introduced its pricing strategy. The input pricing for Wenxin Yiyan 4.0 Turbo is 0.03 yuan per thousand Tokens, while the output pricing is 0.06 yuan per thousand Tokens. Xie Guangjun pointed out that, based on a 3:1 input-output ratio, the new model's price is 70% lower than that of the previous Wenxin Yiyan 4.0 Gen