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Poe launches the API feature, allowing developers to directly call all AI models and robots on the platform through subscriptions, including image and video processing capabilities. The API is compatible with the OpenAI interface, requiring no additional learning costs, and supports diverse needs such as text generation and creative content creation. The subscription model lowers the entry barrier, enabling developers to quickly integrate Poe's technological capabilities and explore the potential of AI applications. This update marks Poe's transformation from a chat platform to a developer tool.

DeepSeek affiliate company publicly disclosed a patent for deploying large language models, innovatively utilizing a distributed architecture: deploying the prefill and decode stages on high-performance computing and large-memory machines respectively. This method balances the load, reduces computational idle time, significantly lowering latency and increasing throughput. The patent highlights optimizations in system scalability and fault tolerance. Its MoE language model, DeepSeek-V3, has 671 billion parameters, with 37 billion parameters activated per token, which will promote the practical application of AI technology across industries. The core breakthrough lies in combining hardware resources effectively.

Xiaomi Browser upgraded with 'AI Search', integrating Doubao model and Volcano Ark agent, adding AI Q&A, translation, and problem-solving. Xiaomi App Store now supports DIY AI apps via Volcano Engine. The upgrade highlights Xiaomi's AI advancements and partnership with Volcano Engine.....

The Seed team of ByteDance announced the release of the experimental diffusion language model Seed Diffusion Preview, marking a major technological breakthrough in the field of language models. The model aims to validate the feasibility of the discrete diffusion technology route as a foundational framework for next-generation language models through structured code generation experiments. Seed Diffusion Preview has achieved significant improvements in inference speed, reaching 2146 tokens per second, which is 5 times faster than equivalent-scale autoregressive models.

Poe launches a developer API supporting 100+ multimodal AI models, offering subscription plans ($4.99-$249.99/month) and pay-as-you-go credits ($30/1M). Developers can integrate AI into tools, with budget management features coming soon.....

A latest report from Menlo Ventures shows that Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI with a 32% share in the enterprise AI market (25% for OpenAI), achieving a major turnaround. Two years ago, OpenAI held half the market, but now its share is continuously declining. Anthropic has achieved a 42% market share in the programming field with its Claude 3.5/3.7 series models. The report points out that companies tend to prefer closed models, with only 13% using open-source solutions. Although OpenAI maintains an advantage in the consumer segment (processing 2.5 billion requests daily).

Volvo's new XC70 starts pre-sale in August, featuring: 1. Smart voice assistant with 4-zone recognition & AI Q&A; 2. Four 'Comfort Rest Mode' themes; 3. Seven colors, 'Thor's Hammer' headlights, hidden door handles; 4. 1.5T plug-in hybrid, 4815x1890x1650mm, 2895mm wheelbase. Focuses on smart tech & comfort. (240 chars)....

The StepZen team announced that their latest generation foundational large model, Step3, is officially open-sourced. Step3 is a model designed for enterprises and developers who pursue the optimal balance between performance and cost, aiming to create the most suitable model for the inference era. The open-source address of this model includes GitHub, Hugging Face, and ModelScope, allowing developers to freely download and experience it. Step3 adopts an MoE architecture, with a total parameter count of 321 billion and an activated parameter count of 38 billion. It

Volc Engine announced that the daily tokens usage of Doubao Large Model exceeded 1.6 trillion, growing 137 times from last year, with a market share of 46.4%. At the launch event, new products such as Image Editing 3.0 and Simultaneous Interpretation 2.0 were introduced, and the large model was upgraded to version 1.6. President Tan Dai pointed out that AI is shifting from a tool to an intelligent agent, which will significantly change ways of living and working. IDC predicts that the public cloud large model usage in China will reach 114.2 trillion tokens in 2024. Volc Engine expects revenue to exceed 12 billion yuan in 2024. New products...

China's AI applications grow rapidly, with over 3.1B personal user registrations. In 2023, 3,755 global AI models emerged, 40% from China. By March, 346 AI services completed registration, with 80.9% usage in June. Industry scale is projected to exceed ¥700B in 2024, growing over 20% annually.....

Ollama launches a desktop client, bidding farewell to the single command-line mode, supporting macOS system. The new version offers a graphical interface, multimodal recognition, and document drag-and-drop features, simplifying the model management process, and supporting local large language models such as Llama3. The client strengthens the advantages of local operation, ensures data privacy, and optimizes performance. The open-source community actively expands the ecosystem, with future plans to release cross-platform versions. This upgrade makes local AI tools more user-friendly, providing developers and general users with more diverse application scenarios.

Volc Engine launched new models and service upgrades in the Dabao series at the Xiamen AI Innovation Tour: 1) Introduced the Image Editing 3.0 model, supporting natural language photo editing; 2) The Simultaneous Interpretation 2.0 model reduces latency to 2-3 seconds and supports voice replication; 3) Upgraded the Dabao large model 1.6 series, with the ultra-fast version TPOT taking only 10ms and reducing costs by 70%; 4) Open-sourced core capabilities of the Kousi development platform, which received over 10,000 stars in three days; 5) Launched an enterprise-owned model hosting solution, simplifying the deployment process. These upgrades provide full-stack support for enterprise AI applications, accelerating implementation.

Kunlun Wildfire releases the open-source multimodal pre-training model Skywork UniPic, integrating three functions: image understanding, text-to-image generation, and image editing. The model uses an autoregressive training approach, trained on large-scale high-quality data, and has strong generalization and transfer capabilities. Its open-source nature facilitates secondary innovation by developers and can be widely applied in content creation and industry scenarios. This is a significant move by Kunlun Wildfire in the AI field, which will promote the development and popularization of multimodal technology.

Li Auto launches i8, a 6-seat electric SUV with Pro/Max/Ultra variants (¥321,800-369,800), delivering Aug 20. Features: dual-motor AWD, 5C battery (670-720km range), LiDAR, VLA AI system, 9 airbags. Offers 3 interior colors, 20-inch wheels, ¥10k discount.....

CAS-SIAT's HYPIR model restores 8K images in 1.7s with advanced text reconstruction, outperforming traditional methods through optimized algorithms. Applied in photo restoration and heritage conservation.....

Shenzhen Institute develops HYPIR model, restoring old photos to 8K in 1.7s with AI, advancing image processing for heritage and film restoration.....

The Douchou Gynecology Large Model, trained by Yisheng Jankang on the DingTalk AI platform, passed the national gynecology and obstetrics senior professional examination, becoming the first clinical-level medical AI developed by a start-up company in China. The model was trained in just over a month, achieving an accuracy rate of 90.2%, marking a breakthrough from prototype to professional application. The CTO of DingTalk stated that this verifies the platform's ability to support enterprises in building customized large models, providing a model for AI development in industries such as healthcare and education. The Douchou model will be initially applied in scenarios such as gynecological knowledge Q&A and clinical decision support, promoting the implementation of vertical field AI solutions.

Shanghai AI Lab releases the open-source scientific multimodal large model Intern-S1, surpassing existing top models in scientific research fields such as chemistry and materials. The model has cross-modal scientific analysis capabilities, able to interpret complex data such as molecular formulas and protein structures, and also launches a dedicated scientific discovery platform called Intern-Discovery. Intern-S1 will promote the development of multi-agent disease research systems and continue to open-source to support scientific progress.

Ant Group announced the financial reasoning large model Agentar-Fin-R1 at the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Built upon Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen, the model focuses on the professionalism and security of the financial industry. It has shown excellent performance in evaluations such as FinEval1.0, offering 32B and 8B parameter versions. CEO Zhao Wenbiao pointed out that financial large models are key to the integration of AI and finance, and a corpus covering six major categories and 66 subcategories of financial scenarios has been built. The model is currently applied in a bank's AI mobile banking app, leading to a 25% increase in monthly active users.

Step Star releases the next generation Step 3 large model, which will be open-sourced on July 31st. This 321B parameter multi-modal reasoning model performs outstandingly in intelligence and reasoning efficiency, supporting cross-domain knowledge understanding and visual analysis. The company has established the Model Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance in cooperation with chip manufacturers and reached a strategic cooperation with Shanghai State Capital, promoting the application of large models. Step 3 achieves 300% reasoning efficiency of competing products on domestic chips, with over 70% improvement in throughput, and has established a 1+N model matrix covering multiple fields. The model has achieved SOTA on multiple rankings.