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Recently, Baidu officially launched its 2026 AIDU Program, an elite recruitment project aimed at cultivating future AI technology leaders. This program has once again become a focal point in the tech community. Baidu hosted an AIDU Program • DeepTalk Open Day event in their campus, attracting many young people who are passionate about AI technology to participate. In this year's AIDU Program, there has been a significant expansion in job recruitment. The scale of recruitment has increased by over 60%, covering 23 core businesses and 11 research directions of Baidu. Positions include large model algorithms and large model infrastructure.

Gongbu Group recently announced a comprehensive and in-depth full-stack AI cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. The two parties will jointly create products based on Qwen large model and AI computing power and other advanced technologies to explore innovative end-side intelligent solutions. This move not only marks another significant breakthrough for Gongbu in the smart home field, but also indicates that its future will accelerate its overseas strategy by relying on Alibaba Cloud's global infrastructure. Gongbu and Alibaba Cloud have a long history of deep cooperation, establishing a close partnership since 2017. Currently, Gongbu's IoT system has been fully running on the Alibaba Cloud platform.

According to a new analysis, the power consumption of artificial intelligence is expected to reach nearly half of the total electricity consumption of global data centers by the end of 2025, meaning AI energy consumption will soon surpass bitcoin mining. The analysis was conducted by Alex de Vries-Gao, a Ph.D. student at the Environmental Institute of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has previously tracked the power consumption and environmental impact of cryptocurrencies and published related data on his website Digiconomist. Currently, AI has already accounted for a significant portion of data center energy usage.

ByteDance's Volcano Engine has officially launched the DouBao · Voice Podcast Model. Built on a streaming model, it can achieve second-level conversion from text creation to two-way conversational podcasts, offering users an entirely new experience of "low cost, high efficiency, and strong interaction." This release not only resolves many challenges in traditional AI podcast creation but also greatly simplifies the production process, making trending content instantly transform into vivid podcasts.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's smart glasses project, codenamed N50, remains in early development and is far from ready. While Apple has a strong track record of creating small, innovative devices, its smart glasses development appears to be progressing slowly. Gurman writes that the N50 glasses aim to leverage "Apple Intelligence" capabilities, analyzing the surroundings and feeding information back to the wearer, but the glasses will not provide a full augmented reality (AR) experience.

At the recent Shanghai Auto Show, Zhuoyu Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Zhuoyu") announced its successful integration of Alibaba's Tongyi large model, marking another significant advancement in the field of intelligent driving. As an intelligent driving solutions provider and service provider, Zhuoyu leverages Alibaba Cloud's powerful computing capabilities to build an end-to-end intelligent driving world model, aiming to enhance the intelligence level of vehicles. In recent years, intelligent driving technology has rapidly developed, with major automakers significantly increasing their investment in this area. Zhuoyu Technology's collaboration with Alibaba's Tongyi large model has...

Following its $32.1 million Series B funding round in October, data governance platform provider Relyance AI has launched its new Data Journeys platform. Designed to address key challenges enterprises face when adopting AI, the platform provides precise visibility into how data flows through complex systems. It tracks how and why data is used across applications, cloud services, and third-party systems, filling gaps left by traditional data lineage methods. Relyance AI CEO and co-founder A...

Xiaopeng Motors chairman He Xiaopeng recently announced that the company's fully self-developed Turing AI chip will be mass-produced and launched in the second quarter of this year. This progress comes as the automotive industry accelerates the application of end-to-end intelligent driving technology and the scale of AI large models continues to expand. Xiaopeng Motors is building its strongest AI brain by simultaneously developing a world base model with 35 times the parameters of mainstream VLA models, and a self-developed chip with computing power equivalent to three Nvidia Orin Xs, which is about to be mass-produced.

Bloomberg reports that Meta is preparing to launch a high-end version of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with a built-in display, potentially as early as the end of this year. Codenamed Hypernova, these glasses will support running apps and displaying photos, controlled via gestures and capacitive touch on the sides of the frames. The screen, according to the report, will only appear in the bottom-right quadrant of the right lens, optimized for viewing when looking downward. Upon startup, the main screen displays icons horizontally, similar to Meta's...

OpenAI is pursuing a massive $400 billion funding round, led by Japan's SoftBank, with a crucial condition: OpenAI must transition to a profitable company by the end of 2025. Success would propel the company's valuation to $300 billion, making it the reigning AI unicorn. However, securing this funding isn't guaranteed. Failure to meet the deadline would slash the funding to $200 billion.

The Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen Qwen team announced the launch of Qwen2.5-Omni, a new generation of end-to-end multimodal flagship model in the Qwen family. Designed for comprehensive multimodal understanding, this new model seamlessly handles various input formats including text, images, audio, and video, and generates text and natural speech synthesis outputs simultaneously via real-time streaming response.