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Amazon Cloud Technology Shanghai AI Research Institute announced its disbandment on July 23. This institute was the last overseas research institute of AWS. Chief Applied Scientist Wang Minjie confirmed the news on his Moments and reflected on her six-year leadership experience. An Amazon spokesperson stated that this was a personnel reduction decision based on organizational evaluation and strategic adjustments, aiming to optimize resource investment in innovation. The news has attracted widespread attention in the industry.

On April 21, 2025, Shenzhen University officially unveiled its Artificial Intelligence Institute, marking a significant step forward in the university's AI education and research. According to Shenzhen TV's Deep Vision News report, the institute will establish a basic research center and a computing platform, and will collaborate with Tencent Cloud to build an industry academy, promoting deep integration of industry, academia, and research. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image authorization service provider Midjourney. Currently, the Artificial Intelligence Institute boasts a strong team of approximately 80 teachers and researchers.

OpenAI's recently released o3 AI model has sparked controversy over its benchmark test performance. While OpenAI confidently claimed in December that the model could correctly answer over a quarter of the highly challenging FrontierMath math problems, this assertion starkly contrasts with recent independent test results. The Epoch Institute's independent testing revealed the model achieved only a 10% success rate, significantly lower than advertised.

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a leading international arbitration institution, recently released guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in arbitration. This initiative aims to provide legal professionals and arbitrators with practical advice on the ethical use of this emerging technology in arbitration proceedings. With rapid technological advancements, AI is increasingly being integrated into various industries, including law and arbitration. AI can play a significant role in document review, evidence analysis, and decision-making support, but its application also raises a number of ethical considerations.

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has led to concerns about the true performance of these models, despite continuous improvements by developers. To address this, the Vector Institute, founded by Geoffrey Hinton, has released a research study, "Assessing the State of the Art," which provides a comprehensive evaluation of 11 leading open-source and closed-source models through an interactive leaderboard. The evaluation covers mathematics, general knowledge, and coding.

The Tony Blair Institute (TBI), a think tank founded by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, has published a report recommending that the UK relax copyright laws for AI companies to facilitate the development of new products. The report suggests that stricter copyright measures could strain UK-US relations, particularly given the looming threat of US tariffs on British goods. Image credit: Image generated by AI, using Midjourney.

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) recently unveiled its latest large language model, OLMo2 32B. This model boasts a significant advantage: it's fully open-source, directly challenging proprietary models. The most notable feature of OLMo2 32B is its completely open nature. AI2 has generously released all data, code, weights, and detailed training processes. This transparency sets a new standard.

Following its latest financial report, Alibaba Group announced a significant forum to be held on February 28th. Hosted by its research arm, DAMO Academy, the event, titled "2025 XuanTie RISC-V Ecosystem Conference," will feature a keynote speech by DAMO Academy's chief scientist on "Opportunities for RISC-V from DeepSeek Innovation." The conference will also see the launch of the XuanTie RISC-V series of chips. Notably, Alibaba Group CEO, Wu Yongming, announced yesterday that the company plans to invest significantly over the next three years.

According to multiple media reports, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to lay off up to 500 employees, a decision that further threatens the newly established U.S. Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (AISI). Axios reported that AISI and the 'U.S. Chip Plan' will face 'significant' layoffs targeting probationary employees, who are typically new hires with one to two years of service. Bloomberg noted that some employees have already received verbal notifications of impending layoffs.

Recently, the Arc Institute partnered with NVIDIA, along with researchers from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, to jointly release the world's largest biological artificial intelligence model — Evo2. This model is based on data from over 128,000 genomes, training on 93 trillion nucleotides, making its scale comparable to the most powerful generative AI language models. Evo2's deep learning capabilities enable it to rapidly identify sequences of genes across different organisms.

The UK government recently announced the renaming of the institution originally called the 'AI Security Institute' to 'AI Security Academy', marking a significant shift in the government's strategy in the AI sector. The new name not only reflects changes in the institution's functions but also indicates the UK government's firm commitment to promoting the development of the AI industry. Image source note: The image is AI-generated, with licensing provided by Midjourney. This change was announced by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the new AI Security Academy will focus on cybersecurity, aiming to ...

Recently, Meitu Image Research Institute (MT Lab) and Beijing Jiaotong University jointly proposed a technique called MEMatte (Memory Efficient Matting), which is a super high-resolution matting technology successfully selected for the top-tier conference in the field of artificial intelligence, AAAI 2025. The main highlight of the MEMatte technology is that it is a memory-friendly natural image matting framework that effectively reduces the computational overhead of the model. This innovation allows for operations in memory-constrained environments, such as commercial graphics cards and edge devices.

On December 18, 2024, ZhiYuan Research Institute signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent Group, aiming for in-depth collaboration in several areas, including large model research and development, exploration of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, and open-source ecosystem construction. According to the cooperation agreement, ZhiYuan Research Institute and Tencent will leverage their respective strengths to promote the deep integration of large model technology and industrial scenarios, and explore technological solutions for large model training and inference optimization in diverse computing environments. Both parties are also committed to building an open and innovative hardware and software ecosystem to foster the development and application of technologies.

In the vast universe of artificial intelligence, mathematics has long been considered the last bastion of machine intelligence. Now, a new benchmarking test named FrontierMath has emerged, pushing AI's mathematical reasoning capabilities to unprecedented limits. Epoch AI has collaborated with over 60 top minds in mathematics to create this challenge, which can be described as the 'Olympics of Mathematics' for AI. This is not just a technology test; it is the ultimate interrogation of artificial intelligence's mathematical wisdom. Imagine a laboratory filled with the world's top mathematicians, meticulously designing...