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Apple's Q3 fiscal year 2025 revenue grew by 10% exceeding expectations. CEO Cook announced a significant increase in AI investment, focusing on developing personalized Siri features, expected to launch next year. Cook stated that AI is the most transformative technology and revealed that seven companies have been acquired this year, expressing openness to acquisitions that accelerate technological development. Facing the gap with competitors such as OpenAI, Apple may consider collaborating with companies like Anthropic and could possibly acquire Perplexity, which is valued at 14 billion dollars.

Shenzhen Leju Robotics has secured a new round of funding, with its registered capital increased to 2.27 million yuan, and investors including Dongfang Jinggong. The company, established in 2016, has accumulated over tens of millions in financing. It has transitioned from educational robots to the industrial field. Its Aelos educational robot has been adopted by more than 4,000 schools. In 2023, it launched a humanoid robot based on open-source HarmonyOS, and collaborated with Huawei Cloud and China Mobile to develop 5G-A robots, enhancing application capabilities in industrial scenarios. The company plans to deliver 1,000 humanoid robots by 2025, addressing labor shortages in manufacturing and promoting intelligent production.

Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree has launched the world's first full-size humanoid robot R1 priced below $6,000, at only 39,900 yuan. This 25-kilogram robot features 26 joints and can perform high-difficulty movements such as backflips, equipped with a multi-modal AI system. Compared to similar products, the R1 is only one-third the price of Tesla's Optimus, thanks to China's supply chain advantages and lightweight design. Unitree's move comes as it prepares for an IPO, potentially triggering a price war in the industry. Although the R1 is not yet suitable for home use,

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.

Tencent launches the world's first open-source 3D world generation model, Hunyuan 3D 1.0, supporting 360° high-precision scene generation and interactive exploration. This model significantly lowers the barrier to 3D creation through AI technology, enabling immersive scenes to be generated quickly from a single image or text. It offers 20 free experiences per day. Its open-source nature empowers developers worldwide and is applicable to multiple fields such as gaming, VR, and film. The project has over 12,000 stars on GitHub. This technology advances 3D generation from object-level to world-level, redefining content production processes. It has the potential to drive innovations in gaming and digital worlds in the future.

At the Tencent Forum of the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held on July 27, 2025, Tencent officially released the first version of the HuanYuan 3D World Model and announced that the model will be fully open-sourced. This move marks the birth of the industry's first open-source world generation model that supports immersive roaming, interaction, and simulation, opening up new possibilities for fields such as game development, virtual reality (VR), and digital content creation.

Tencent unveiled the 1+3+NAI comprehensive system at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, with the Hunyuan large model as its core, launching innovative technologies such as the Hunyuan 3D World Model and the embodied intelligence platform Tairos. The system includes three platforms: an intelligent agent development platform for B/C ends, an embodied intelligence platform in the robotics field, and an AI application matrix covering multiple industries, comprehensively showcasing Tencent's AI strategic upgrade. By driving with core models and combining with diverse applications, it provides a complete solution for AI industrialization.

Kuaishou opensources the KAT-V1 autonomous thinking large model, which includes two versions: 40B and 200B. The 40B version performance is close to DeepSeek-R1, and the 200B version outperforms several flagship models. The model innovatively adopts a mixed training paradigm of short and long-term thinking and the Step-SRPO reinforcement learning algorithm, which can automatically adjust the thinking mode based on the complexity of the question, solving the problem of overthinking. Based on Qwen2.5-32B, it achieves excellent performance in fields such as science and code through an heterogeneous distillation framework and pre-training with 10 million examples.

Stability-AI's SPAR3D model revolutionizes 3D reconstruction from single images in 0.7s, combining regression and generative modeling via a two-stage point sampling and meshing architecture. It outperforms traditional methods in geometric accuracy and texture quality on GSO and OmniObject3D datasets. Open-sourced.....

Trump announces $90B AI investment in PA with Google, Blackstone. Focus on data centers and energy, creating thousands of jobs, positioning PA as an AI hub.....

Anthropic launches 'Claude', an AI solution for finance, adopted by Visa and PwC. It boosts audit efficiency, cuts research time from 4-5 hours to 30 mins, ensures compliance, and provides real-time data via partners like S&P Global.....

Zhiyuan Robotics secures strategic investment from CP Group, marking a new phase in Chinese robotics' global expansion. The partnership aims to enhance tech innovation and access international markets, focusing on life sciences and retail sectors.....

SpaceX plans to invest $2B in Musk's AI firm xAI, marking its first direct investment. This aligns with xAI's $5B equity funding round. SpaceX uses xAI's chatbot Grok for Starlink and aims to deepen collaboration. Despite Grok's controversies, Tesla plans to integrate it, showcasing Musk's strategy of inter-company synergy to advance AI.....

Amazon plans additional investment in AI startup Anthropic to strengthen their partnership. After investing $8B, the new round could make Amazon a major shareholder. They will collaborate on the world's largest data center project to provide computing power for Anthropic and sell its tech to AWS customers. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI employees, competes with ChatGPT via its Claude model. Amazon also aims to invest $11B in Indiana data centers....

Kunlun releases Skywork-R1V3.0, an open-source multimodal model achieving expert-level reasoning. It excels in physics (52.8), logic (59.7), and math (77.1), outperforming Claude-3.7-Sonnet and GPT-4.5 with only 25K training samples.....

On July 7, the Tencent Hunyuan 3D team announced the launch of the industry's first art-level 3D generation large model, Hunyuan3D-PolyGen. By employing self-developed high-compression representation BPT technology and a autoregressive mesh generation framework, it enables accurate generation of complex geometric models with up to ten thousand faces. The model has breakthrough solutions for core pain points in 3D asset generation, such as poor topology quality, excessive face count, and difficulty in post-editing. It has improved the modeling efficiency of artists by over 70%. The relevant capabilities have been launched on the Tencent Hunyuan 3D AI creation engine and integrated into multiple game pipelines. Traditional

Tencent launched Hunyuan3D-PolyGen, the industry's first art-grade 3D generation model, using self-developed BPT technology to enhance wiring quality and complex object modeling. It generates high-precision geometric models, supports multiple surface types, and boosts gaming pipeline efficiency by 70+%.....