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According to LatePost, ByteDance recently made significant adjustments to its AI product department, Flow. The social companionship AI product, Cat Box, has a new leader. The previous head, Liang Chenqi, has left the company, and has been replaced by Xi Yuan (codename), the former head of Xinghui. Meanwhile, the Xinghui team, which develops AI camera and image generation applications, is slated to merge into the Doubao App, under the unified management of Doubao App's head, Lu You (codename). The Flow department is headed by Zhu Jun and includes Doubao, Cat Box, Xinghui, Doubao Aixue, and G.

In a recent antitrust trial against Google in Washington, OpenAI executive Nick Turley revealed that OpenAI would be interested in acquiring Chrome should the court rule that Google must divest itself of the browser to restore competition in the search market. This statement highlights OpenAI's focus on search functionality and its ambitious future plans. Turley emphasized the importance of search...

According to foreign media reports, Apple's newly launched Apple Intelligence feature is disabled on Meta's apps (including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads), preventing users from accessing core functionalities such as Writing Tools and the custom emoji generator (Genmoji). This move is believed to be related to Meta's strategy of promoting its own Meta AI tools, highlighting the intensifying competition between the two tech giants in the AI arena.

At the recent 3rd China AIGC Industry Summit, Fenbi AI received two significant awards: "2025 Notable AIGC Enterprise" and "2025 Notable AIGC Product", recognizing its outstanding achievements in vocational education. Hosted by QuantumBit, the summit, themed "Everything is AI," attracted numerous experts and professionals from the technology and education sectors. Fenbi's CTO, Jianhua Chen, delivered a keynote speech titled "Reshaping and Practicing Intelligent Education: The Landing Path of Large Models".

According to AI Technology Review, ByteDance's AI Lab is reportedly merging into its Seed team. This significant restructuring marks a major shift in ByteDance's internal AI R&D structure. Established in 2016, the AI Lab, previously a core part of ByteDance's AI research under Ma Weiying and reporting directly to Zhang Yiming, boasted a team of 150 researchers. Their work encompassed cutting-edge AI technologies, contributing significantly to the success of products like Douyin (TikTok) through advancements in recommendation algorithms and video effects. The AI Lab played a crucial role in ByteDance's growth.

Meta recently announced it will resume training its AI models using publicly available content from European users. This decision follows a pause last year due to data privacy concerns. Meta stated that this AI training will primarily rely on publicly shared posts and comments from adult users across the 27 EU countries. Furthermore, interactions between users and Meta AI, such as questions and queries, will also be used to train and improve its AI models. Image attribution: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midj

According to LeiFeng.com, vivo restructured its artificial intelligence (AI) department again on April 2nd, demonstrating its continued commitment and reform determination in the AI field. This change comes just a month after the last adjustment, indicating that vivo's exploration of its AI strategy is ongoing. In this restructuring, vivo abolished the original AI Department 1 and AI Department 2, replacing them with the new AI Product Department, AI Technology Development Department 1, and AI Technology Development Department 2. Each newly established department has clearly defined responsibilities.

Google recently announced the official pricing for its Gemini 2.5 Pro API. For input tokens up to 200,000, the base price is $1.25 per million input tokens, approximately 9.1 RMB; while the price for every million output tokens is $10, approximately 72.9 RMB. For longer texts exceeding 200,000 input tokens, the input price adjusts to $2.50 per million, approximately 18.2 RMB.

On March 25th, Cai Chongxin, Chairman of the Alibaba Group, expressed his views at the HSBC Global Investment Summit, pointing out that a bubble is beginning to form in the construction of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. He believes that many investment announcements in US data centers are "duplicated" or overlapping. Meanwhile, Cai Chongxin revealed that Alibaba's employee count has bottomed out and the company will restart its hiring plan. Regarding the current booming AI wave, Cai Chongxin broadly categorized companies involved into three types: the first focuses on model research and development, such as OpenAI; the second focuses on AI applications and integrations; and the third comprises infrastructure providers.

As of March 24th, OpenAI's COO, Brad Lightcap, will expand his responsibilities to oversee daily operations and global expansion. This change elevates Lightcap's role to accommodate OpenAI's rapid growth. Simultaneously, Mark Chen has been appointed Chief Research Officer, leading the company's research direction and driving technological innovation and product development. Current CEO Sam Altman will focus more intently on research and product development, aiming to advance the company's position in the artificial intelligence field.