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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.

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.

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.

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.

The ByteDance Doubao large model team announced the open-sourcing of UI-TARS-1.5, an open-source multimodal agent built on a vision-language model capable of efficiently executing various tasks in a virtual world. The model achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on seven typical GUI (Graphical User Interface) benchmark evaluations and demonstrated, for the first time, its long-term reasoning capabilities in games and interactive capabilities in open spaces. This open-source project marks a significant advancement in multimodal agent technology for GUIs.

Scout AI, a startup focused on autonomous vehicle manufacturing and autonomous software development, has emerged from stealth mode after announcing a successful $15 million seed funding round. Founded in August of last year by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis, the company aims to apply AI and robotics to defense missions. On the same day as the funding announcement, Scout AI proudly revealed that they have secured multiple contracts with the US Department of Defense and launched their

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.

Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly pursuing one of the largest seed funding rounds in history. According to Business Insider, the company has doubled its seed funding target to $20 billion. If successful, this round would value the company at least $10 billion. Thinking Machines Lab has only recently emerged from stealth mode and currently has no publicly available products.