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Recently, Musk made this assertion on his social media account and @-ed the chatbot Grok under his xAI, sparking industry热议. The report he cited showed that Google's search market share fell below 90% for the first time in a decade. According to the report, Google's global search engine share has dropped to 89.71%, the lowest point since 2015. The report pointed out that users are gradually getting tired of the traditional search experience full of SEO optimization and ad interference, driven by AI.

According to Yicai Business News, Honor has completed personnel adjustments in 38 key positions in the Chinese region. This is an important part of the organizational transformation called the Eagle Plan implemented throughout the company. It was revealed that this competition is open to all employees of Honor domestically and internationally, using the method of re-competition for positions. 45% of the position holders have been adjusted, with the proportion of employees born in the 90s reaching 24%, and the youngest manager being only 27 years old. The entire competition process was live-streamed within the company, reflecting the employment concept of promoting capable individuals and demoting mediocre ones. At the same time as the organizational structure adjustment, the strategic direction is also clarified.

Zhipu BigModel's open platform has adjusted prices for several of its model offerings. GLM-4-FlashX, for example, is now priced at just 10 RMB per 100 million tokens. Built on a powerful pre-trained base, this model boasts exceptionally fast inference speeds and functional capabilities comparable to GPT-4, excelling in data extraction, generation, and translation.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, stated at a U.S. Council on Foreign Relations forum that he believes AI will handle 90% of coding within the next 3-6 months. Amodei's prediction that AI could potentially write nearly all code within 12 months has garnered significant attention. The statement was made during a discussion with Mike Froman, President of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alibaba has open-sourced Babel, a powerful multilingual large language model capable of supporting 25 languages and impacting nearly 90% of the world's population. This release aims to democratize access to advanced AI technologies globally.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the release of Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip that significantly reduces the cost of error correction by approximately 90%. This breakthrough promises to accelerate advancements in the field of quantum computing.

A collaborative team from Ant Group, Zhejiang University, University of Liverpool, and East China Normal University presented ScaleOT, a novel cross-domain fine-tuning framework, at AAAI 2025. This framework achieves a 50% improvement in privacy protection and a remarkable 90% reduction in computational cost compared to knowledge distillation, without compromising model performance. ScaleOT offers a highly efficient and lightweight solution for cross-domain fine-tuning of billion-parameter models. The innovative nature of the paper secured it an oral presentation at AAAI.

According to CNBC, Perplexity, the AI search engine developer, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund. The fund is largely capitalized by limited partners, with Perplexity contributing a portion of its previous funding as cornerstone capital. In December, Perplexity successfully raised $500 million, valuing the company at $9 billion. This investment fund is managed by two...

According to reports, Alibaba recently announced a large-scale recruitment drive, aiming to open hundreds of job positions, with 90% of the roles related to artificial intelligence (AI). This initiative primarily focuses on Alibaba's AI To C business, which is the consumer-facing artificial intelligence business system, covering multiple products and teams, including Quark, Tongyi, a spin-off from Alibaba Cloud, and the Tmall Genie team. The recruitment will specifically target talents in cutting-edge technologies and applications such as text processing, multimodal large models, and AI agents.

Recently, the World Government Summit (WGS) grandly opened in Dubai, UAE, attracting attention from elites around the globe. During the summit, Baidu founder Li Yanhong engaged in an in-depth dialogue with the UAE's AI minister to explore the latest development trends in the AI field. In the conversation, Li Yanhong specifically mentioned Baidu's innovative achievements in AI inference—DeepSeek. He stated that innovation is not limited to the AI field or the IT industry, but is widespread across various sectors, with the core of most innovations closely related to cost reduction.

During today's Baidu AI Open Day event, Baidu's Vice President and Head of the Wenku and Baidu Cloud Business Units, Wang Ying, revealed the latest developments in the application of AI technology by Baidu Wenku. It was introduced that the monthly active users of Baidu Wenku's AI features have surpassed 90 million, with daily active users increasing by 230% year-on-year, and the number of paid users exceeding 40 million, demonstrating the platform's strong appeal in the application of AI features. In the past year, Baidu Wenku has added over 100 AI features, including various innovative tools to meet user needs in document processing.

Recently, the DeepSeek team in China has launched its latest open-source large model R1, which has gained widespread attention. The performance of the R1 model is exceptionally outstanding, surpassing OpenAI's o1 model in multiple tests, especially excelling in assessments related to mathematics and programming. In the latest AIME2024 test in the United States, R1 scored 79.8, outperforming o1's score of 79.2. In the MATH-500 test, R1 achieved a score of 97.3, again leading over o1.

According to Sina Technology, Baidu Wenku's AI functionality has achieved remarkable results worldwide. As of the end of December, the monthly active users (MAU) of Baidu Wenku's AI function have surpassed 90 million, second only to ChatGPT's 310 million, ranking second globally. Since the comprehensive restructuring of Baidu Wenku, over 100 new features have been launched, including Smart PPT, Smart Documents, Research Reports, and AI Universal Search. The introduction of these features has greatly enhanced user experience and work efficiency, attracting a large number of users.