Search AI Products and News

ByteDance's Seed Team recently released the impressive results of the 2025 full subject Gaokao test: the Dou Bao Seed1.6-Thinking model scored 683 in literature and 648 in science, meeting the admission threshold for Tsinghua and Peking University, and performed outstandingly in domestic and international AI model Gaokao tests. The test used the national new volume one and Shandong Province's independent proposition papers, with Dou Bao competing against five other top domestic and international AI models such as Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, DeepSeek R1, and OpenAI o3.

Repello AI is a startup focused on generative AI security. The company recently secured $1.225 million in seed funding to further its mission of protecting generative AI systems from emerging threats. Founded in 2024, the company is dedicated to building continuous AI red team testing and security protection solutions, with two flagship products: ARTEMIS and Repello Guard. This round of financing was supported by multiple investment institutions, including one that has been integrated into G.

OpenAI announced significant updates to its image generation API (Responses API), adding new features such as streaming transmission, multi-round editing, and integration with Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and real-time web data search. These new features not only improve the efficiency of image generation but also provide developers with more flexible creation methods, marking a new stage for AI-driven visual content creation. AIbase has compiled the core highlights of this update and its far-reaching impact on the industry.

Mianbi Intelligence announced the completion of a new round of tens of millions yuan financing, which was jointly invested by Hongtai Fund, Guozhong Capital, Qingchuan Golden信 and Maotai Fund. The completion of this round of financing will lay a solid foundation for Mianbi Intelligence in areas such as efficient large model technologies, product barriers, industry empowerment, and ecological expansion, promoting the scaling application of the "edge-side brain" in thousands of industries.

Recently, the domestic embodied intelligent start-up "Lingyu Intelligence" announced the completion of a multimillion-dollar seed round financing. This round was led by InnoAngel Fund, with participation from Shuimu Alumni Seed Fund and Horizon Ventures. The company was co-founded by Jin Ge, an alumnus of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, together with his team. It is committed to creating a benchmark for embodied intelligent applications, accelerating the real-world implementation of robots in industrial and home scenarios. Lingyu Intelligence, leveraging its technical accumulation in the field of robot motion control, has built a general solution covering data collection from the human side, actuators on the machine side, to intelligent operation platforms, bridging from level L0 to L4 of intelligence.

ByteDance recently announced the official launch of its "Top Seed" program for recruiting top AI talent from the class of 2026. The program aims to recruit approximately 30 outstanding doctoral students. This initiative focuses on cutting-edge artificial intelligence, encompassing research areas such as large language models, machine learning algorithms and systems, multi-modal generation and understanding, and speech processing. ByteDance hopes to attract young talents with strong potential and passion in the field of large language model research. Unlike previous recruitment plans, this year's "Top Seed" program emphasizes no restrictions on academic background.

According to Bloomberg, Manus AI, a general-purpose AI agent from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has secured $75 million in funding. This translates to approximately 547 million RMB and was led by Benchmark, a prominent US venture capital firm, with participation from existing investors. This round catapults Butterfly Effect's valuation to nearly $500 million, a fourfold increase, reflecting strong market confidence in its product. Image note: Image generated by AI, image rights reserved.

According to investment industry sources, on April 21, 01VC announced the first close of its new RMB 500 million fund, receiving strong support from state-owned assets, market-oriented mother funds, and listed companies across multiple regions. This is the first RMB fund raised by the middle-generation managing partners of 01VC, continuing its focus on smart manufacturing and cross-border expansion. Investment rounds will be between Angel and Series B, with single investments ranging from RMB 5 million to RMB 50 million. The new fund will continue to follow 01VC's strategy of early-stage and small-scale investment, and provide post-investment empowerment and...

Hangzhou-based medical AI company, MeiYin Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., recently announced it has secured millions of yuan in seed funding. The funding will primarily be used for R&D and commercialization of its core product. The round was led by Zhuoyuan Asia, with participation from Xihu Government Direct Investment Fund. MeiYin Intelligence focuses on leveraging AI to predict disease risk and promote health management. Its core product, based on its self-developed DP-LLM large model, supports the processing of multimodal medical data to accurately quantify an individual's future disease risk, covering hundreds of diseases and more.

X-ORIGIN-AI (Xuan Yuan Technology), a consumer-grade AI robot company, recently announced it has completed a Pre-A round of financing totaling nearly 100 million yuan. The round was led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with participation from Kingtop Capital and Lenovo Star, and Renchen Capital served as the financial advisor. This funding accelerates X-ORIGIN-AI's development in AI hardware and affective interaction, showcasing its breakthroughs in the development of emotionally intelligent AI products. X-ORIGIN-AI is dedicated to breaking the limitations of traditional AI tools and pushing human-computer interaction from a 'tool-based' to an 'emotionally intelligent' approach.

New York-based AI startup 1Fort announced a $7.5 million seed funding round to improve the process of small businesses obtaining commercial insurance through its AI-powered platform. The company, which saw 200% revenue growth in 2024, aims to automate cumbersome and outdated manual processes, helping millions of underserved small businesses address insurance gaps. The funding round was led by Bonfire Ventures, with participation from Draper Associates.