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According to investment industry sources, on April 21, 01VC announced the first close of its new RMB 500 million fund, receiving strong support from state-owned assets, market-oriented mother funds, and listed companies across multiple regions. This is the first RMB fund raised by the middle-generation managing partners of 01VC, continuing its focus on smart manufacturing and cross-border expansion. Investment rounds will be between Angel and Series B, with single investments ranging from RMB 5 million to RMB 50 million. The new fund will continue to follow 01VC's strategy of early-stage and small-scale investment, and provide post-investment empowerment and...

China's AI industry is accelerating its journey to the global stage. AIbase learned from social media that the National Supercomputing Internet Platform has officially launched MiniMax's domestic AI large models, including MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01, and they have joined the supercomputing internet AI open-source community. Simultaneously, MiniMax's ChatBot dialogue service has also been integrated into the platform, providing users with a highly efficient intelligent interaction experience. The following is AIbase's in-depth analysis of this significant development.

Recently, UK-based AI and robotics startup Humanoid unveiled its versatile humanoid robot HMND01 in a new video. This robot features a bipedal design that mimics human movement and actions, equipped with a head, torso, arms, and legs, along with fingered hands that possess high-speed and precise operational capabilities, enabling it to perform complex tasks. This is made possible by its numerous high-torque and high-speed actuators. Humanoid's founder and serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov stated, 'The greatest achievement of humanoid robots is to...'

Shanghai Xiyu Technology Co., Ltd. announces the global launch of its newly upgraded T2A-01 series voice models under the MiniMax brand, along with the release of the Conch Voice product. The T2A-01 series includes two models, T2A-01-HD and T2A-01-Turbo, available for users. The API services are now live on the MiniMax open platform, allowing enterprises to choose based on their needs for audio quality and generation speed.

On January 15, 2025, MiniMax announced the open sourcing of its new series of models, MiniMax-01, which includes the foundational language model MiniMax-Text-01 and the visual multimodal model MiniMax-VL-01. The MiniMax-01 series features bold innovations in its architecture, implementing linear attention mechanisms on a large scale for the first time, breaking the limitations of traditional Transformer architectures. With a parameter count reaching 456 billion and 45.9 billion activations per instance, its overall performance competes with international standards.

Recently, Shenzhen introduced a humanoid robot that attracted a large audience while strolling on the streets and quickly gained popularity overseas. This robot, named SE01, has a walking style, speed, and stability that closely resembles that of a human, even moving as gracefully as a model on a runway over a distance of several meters. Nvidia scientist Jim Fan expressed skepticism, suggesting that its gait seemed to be artificially generated, but upon verification, it was proven that this robot is indeed real. Zhongqing Robotics' emergence in the robotics field is remarkable.

The Open Interpreter team announces a strategic shift with the launch of the 01App software application, replacing the previously planned production of the 01Light hardware device. The 01App is a free iOS and Android application that focuses on remote controlling Mac, Windows, and Linux systems through voice commands, integrating the core functionalities of the 01Light. Key features include open-source characteristics that encourage user and developer participation in enhancements and innovations, support for multiple mainstream development platform SDKs, and utilization of WebRTC.

Peach-9B-8k-Roleplay is an AI model specifically designed for roleplay tasks, fine-tuned from the powerful 01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B model, with a wealth of experience accumulated from over 100,000 dialogue syntheses.

AI startup Seele, founded by former NetEase Cloud Music Vice President Wang Shimu, has launched the emotional companion robot Koko AI, based on its self-developed 3D multimodal large model EVA-01. Koko AI offers users a new experience of face-to-face interaction with virtual characters by integrating 3D modeling, animated performance, and voice chat technologies. The product makes virtual characters more vivid, enables natural human-computer interaction, and supports users in communicating with characters through text or voice, providing intelligent and empathetic responses. Users can also customize the experience according to their personal preferences.

Recently, Yi API under Zero One Everything 01AI announced the launch of the Yi-Large-FC model with Function Call capability. This new feature enables the model to determine when to call external tools based on user input and respond in JSON format, compatible with OpenAI's interface design, achieving a smooth alternative to GPT's capabilities.

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Geely Automobile will launch the world's first AI automotive robot - Geely 01, which will officially debut and open for limited pre-orders at 15:00 on September 19. The Geely 01 will be the first model in China to feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 smart cabin chip and is equipped with a 35.6-inch integrated screen. According to the filing information from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Geely 01 is powered by CATL's ternary lithium battery or Honeycomb Energy's lithium iron phosphate battery, featuring a rear-wheel drive 200kW single motor and a four-wheel drive setup with dual 200kW motors. The Geely brand is a high-end division under Geely Automobile.