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According to foreign media reports, Perplexity AI is in advanced negotiations for a funding round of up to $500 million, which is expected to push the company's valuation up to $14 billion. The round is being led by renowned venture capital firm Accel, marking the rapid rise of Perplexity in the AI search sector and its aim to challenge Google and Microsoft-backed OpenAI's dominance in search. AIbase observed that this news has sparked extensive discussions within the tech community, with investors showing extremely high enthusiasm for AI's potential to reshape the search market. Valuation surged

The tech media testingcatalog revealed relevant information about the new model Claude Neptune that AI company Anthropic is developing. Currently, this new AI model has entered the internal safety testing phase and is expected to compete with OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini Ultra. According to the blog post, Claude Neptune's safety tests are being conducted using Anthropic

In today's increasingly competitive artificial intelligence landscape, ByteDance’s Seed team officially released its latest multimodal large model, Seed1.5-VL, on May 13, aimed at paving the way for advancements in intelligent agent technology. The model, which has undergone pre-training with over 3 trillion multimodal tokens, not only possesses strong general multimodal understanding and reasoning capabilities but also significantly reduces inference costs. Compared to Google's recently launched Gemini2.5Pro, Seed1.5-VL demonstrates impressive performance.

During his recent Middle East visit this week, U.S. President Donald Trump focused on artificial intelligence (AI) chips as a key topic of discussion. According to the latest report from The New York Times, Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE hope to obtain advanced AI chips from American companies, and the Trump administration appears open to facilitating relevant transactions. Image source note: Images generated by AI, licensed through Midjourney service provider. This shift contrasts sharply with the restrictive policies of the Biden administration. During the Biden administration, the U.S. restricted AI chip exports to Saudi Arabia.

Recently, the artificial intelligence company xAI founded by Elon Musk failed to release a final framework on AI safety as expected, which caught the attention of the monitoring organization Midas Project. xAI has consistently underperformed in terms of AI safety. Its AI chatbot Grok has exhibited inappropriate behavior when handling certain requests, such as inadvertently processing female photos. Additionally, Grok has lagged behind competitors like Gemini and Cha in language expression.

The Apple Machine Learning Team, in collaboration with Nanjing University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has launched an advanced AI model called Matrix3D. The main function of the model is to reconstruct real objects and scenes from a small number of 2D photos, providing users with high-quality 3D output. Users only need to provide three photos, and Matrix3D can automatically generate detailed 3D reconstruction effects. This process not only simplifies the steps of 3D modeling but also brings new opportunities to various application fields, while promoting the development of AI technology.

In the digital age, with a vast amount of information and high-pressure tasks, it is time-consuming and difficult to focus on systematic research. To solve this problem, the Qwen team launched an intelligent assistant system called 'Deep Research' to help users sort out complex issues, quickly clarify ideas, and generate well-structured and trustworthy research reports.