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OpenAI ex-CTO's AI firm Thinking Machines Lab raises $2B seed at $12B valuation, focusing on multimodal AI for public benefit, with plans for open-source components and human-aligned AGI.....

Willow, a voice OS startup, raised $4.2M in angel funding for R&D. Its TNT tech combines deep learning & NLP to precisely parse complex commands. The pivoted medical team iterated 10x before focusing on voice. Competing with giants, Willow adopts open-source modular strategy with API plans. Challenges remain in multilingual support & privacy.....

AI voice input platform Willow Voice raised $4.2M in angel funding from Y Combinator. Its tool converts speech to text in real-time for macOS, with features like terminology recognition and privacy protection. Funds will boost R&D and cross-platform expansion.....

AI startup Thinking Machines Lab has completed a $2 billion seed round funding, valuing the company at $12 billion, setting a new record for seed funding in Silicon Valley. Founded by Miral Kotb, former CTO of OpenAI, the company has attracted well-known investors such as NVIDIA within less than a year. The company is about to launch its first product, which includes important open-source projects aimed at supporting AI researchers and startups. Despite Meta's failed attempt to acquire the company, it is still seen as a potential challenger to industry giants. This funding reflects...

Google released HAI-DEF toolkit with MedGemma (medical text/records) and MedSigLIP (image analysis) models. Supports local GPU deployment, privacy protection, and customization via Hugging Face/Vertex AI.....

French AI company Mistral is seeking $1 billion in equity financing, with a valuation of $6.51 billion. The company is known for its open-source large language model and chatbot Le Chat, and has raised a total of $1.19 billion in funding so far. This round of financing will be used for research and development and market expansion. Additionally, it will collaborate with MGX Fund and NVIDIA to build the largest AI data center park in Europe, supporting France's AI sovereignty initiative. Mistral's development will enhance Europe's position in the global AI competition.

French AI firm Mistral plans a $1B funding round with UAE's MGX as potential investor, alongside debt financing. The Le Chat developer, valued at $6.51B, partners with MGX and Nvidia to build Europe's largest AI data center, supporting France's AI sovereignty initiative.....

Welcome to the AIbase [AI Daily Report] section! Spend three minutes a day to learn about the latest AI events, helping you understand AI industry trends and innovative AI product applications. For more AI news, visit: https://www.aibase.com/zh1. Baidu officially releases the WENXIN Large Model 4.5 series and fully opens it to the public, featuring ten new models with various parameter configurations. These models are trained and inferred using the PaddlePaddle framework, achieving a FLOPs utilization rate of 47%, and perform well in multi-modal text tasks.

Recently, Baidu officially announced the open-source release of its WENXIN Large Model 4.5 series, launching a total of ten models, including mixed expert (MoE) models with 47B and 3B activated parameters, as well as dense models with 0.3B parameters. This open-source initiative not only fully publicizes the pre-trained weights but also provides inference code, marking a significant advancement for Baidu in the field of large models. These newly released models can be downloaded and deployed on platforms such as PaddlePaddle Starry Sky Community and Hugging Face. Additionally, Baidu Intelligent Cloud's Qianfan Large Model Platform also provides

Baidu officially released the ERNIE Bot 4.5 series models and made them fully open source. Users can experience this latest open-source technology immediately through ERNIE Bot (https://yiyan.baidu.com). This series includes multiple parameter configurations, such as Mixture of Experts (MoE) models with activated parameters of 47B and 3B, as well as dense models designed with 0.3B parameters, totaling ten different models. In terms of training and inference, the ERNIE 4.5 series models use PaddlePaddle deep learning.

Baidu's WENXIN series large models have recently been open-sourced on its PaddlePaddle platform, including dozens of latest models such as ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B-Paddle and ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B-Paddle. Although Baidu has not actively disclosed this open-source initiative, updates on the PaddlePaddle platform show that these actions were concentrated between June 29th and June 30th, marking its latest move. A source within the company confirmed: official

Recently, the world's first AI anthology series 'New World Loading...' produced by Keling AI and Xingmang Short Series held a grand premiere on June 25th. This series combines diverse genres such as science fiction, history, fantasy, and absurd comedy, showcasing new attempts of AI technology in film and television creation. In actual viewing, audiences found that the series performed well in innovative content and sci-fi elements. By using detailed action scripts and start-end frame technology, the series successfully solved the problem of insufficient smoothness in fast fight scenes. However, the series also faces

Kuaishou Technology's Kling AI and Xingmang Short Series have jointly launched the world's first AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) unit drama series, "New World is Loading," which has attracted widespread attention in the industry. The series features a diverse range of genres, including science fiction, history, fantasy, and absurd comedy, showcasing the potential and challenges of AI creation. At the premiere, reporters observed that the plot of "New World is Loading" was full of innovation, especially with its rich science fiction elements and smooth action scenes, thanks to detailed action scripts and start-end frame technology. However, the series also exposed...

In a recent funding round, Abridge, an artificial intelligence startup dedicated to automating medical records, successfully raised $300 million in Series E financing, increasing its valuation to $5.3 billion. The round was led by the renowned investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures also participating. Notably, this funding followed the company's $250 million funding round in February, when its valuation was $2.75 billion. Abridge has been in operation for seven years.