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Poe launches the API feature, allowing developers to directly call all AI models and robots on the platform through subscriptions, including image and video processing capabilities. The API is compatible with the OpenAI interface, requiring no additional learning costs, and supports diverse needs such as text generation and creative content creation. The subscription model lowers the entry barrier, enabling developers to quickly integrate Poe's technological capabilities and explore the potential of AI applications. This update marks Poe's transformation from a chat platform to a developer tool.

The Kimi Open Platform launched the Kimi K2 High-Speed Version (kimi-k2-turbo-preview), increasing the output speed from 10 Tokens per second to 40 Tokens per second while maintaining the original parameter scale, significantly improving response efficiency. This upgrade is mainly targeted at applications requiring higher real-time performance, aiming to optimize user experience.

kimi-k2-turbo-preview, the high-speed version of Kimi K2, is officially released. According to the information, this high-speed version model maintains the same parameter settings as the original kimi-k2, but achieves significant performance improvements. The output speed has jumped from 10 Tokens per second to 40 Tokens per second, providing users with a smoother and more efficient experience.

San Francisco AI startup Deep Cogito launches the Cogito v2 series of open-source large models, focusing on machine intuition and self-improvement capabilities. The series includes four dense and mixture-of-experts models with 70B to 671B parameters. The flagship 671B MoE model has a reasoning efficiency that is 60% higher than DeepSeek R1, and its performance is close to Claude4Opus. Its core technology involves internalizing reasoning paths into model weights through introspective reasoning, enabling continuous evolution while in use. Tests show that the model can

Musk announced that the AI video generator Imagine and the virtual boyfriend Valentine will be rolled out to Grok Heavy subscribers. Imagine can generate videos based on instructions, simplifying content creation; Valentine uses AI to simulate emotional interactions, providing companionship. These two products will change the way people interact digitally, but they also raise questions about whether AI can replace real relationships. Musk's move once again highlights his technological vision, and the launch of these products will reshape the way humans interact with technology.

The WHEE team under Meitu announced the official launch of its highly anticipated 'Ultra HD Video' feature. This feature is designed to help users repair and enhance video quality, whether it's long-forgotten old videos or blurry footage caused by shaky hands. Since the previous trial of the AI Ultra HD feature, WHEE has received a large amount of positive feedback and inquiries from users. Today, WHEE finally lived up to expectations by launching an upgraded 'Ultra HD Video' feature. Users just need to upload their videos and can activate the feature with one click.

The StepZen team announced that their latest generation foundational large model, Step3, is officially open-sourced. Step3 is a model designed for enterprises and developers who pursue the optimal balance between performance and cost, aiming to create the most suitable model for the inference era. The open-source address of this model includes GitHub, Hugging Face, and ModelScope, allowing developers to freely download and experience it. Step3 adopts an MoE architecture, with a total parameter count of 321 billion and an activated parameter count of 38 billion. It

The Wanxi Tianmu 2.0 large model by Wanxi Technology ranked fourth in China on the SuperCLUE global list, and was jointly recognized with Huawei's PanGu T2V, demonstrating its technological strength in the field of video generation. The company also established an AI video large model laboratory with Huawei Cloud, integrating resources to explore digital creative applications and promote the intelligent development of the industry. This collaboration marks an innovative breakthrough of AI technology in the field of video content, which is expected to enhance user experience and lead the industry direction.

Moonvalley's Marey model introduces Sketch-to-Video, enabling 1080p movie clips from text & sketches with 40% cost reduction. HBO-adopted, copyright-compliant, with future pro features.....

Midjourney adds 'For You' feature, offering personalized AI-generated content recommendations based on user interaction history (likes, moodboards). Located top-left, it enables one-click access to style-matched images/videos, adjustable via stylize/chaos parameters for precise genre alignment.....

Tencent's X-Omni AI model integrates reinforcement learning to unify image generation and understanding, outperforming rivals in text rendering and visual tasks without classifier guidance.....

Google's NotebookLM introduces video summaries, converting complex info into narrated slides. It auto-generates videos from user-uploaded images/charts. Demoed at I/O 2025, the feature will roll out gradually. Currently English-only, multilingual support planned.....

Step Star releases the next generation Step 3 large model, which will be open-sourced on July 31st. This 321B parameter multi-modal reasoning model performs outstandingly in intelligence and reasoning efficiency, supporting cross-domain knowledge understanding and visual analysis. The company has established the Model Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance in cooperation with chip manufacturers and reached a strategic cooperation with Shanghai State Capital, promoting the application of large models. Step 3 achieves 300% reasoning efficiency of competing products on domestic chips, with over 70% improvement in throughput, and has established a 1+N model matrix covering multiple fields. The model has achieved SOTA on multiple rankings.

Step Zenith has officially launched its new research assistant, 'Step Deep Research,' which is now available for experience on the Step Zenith App and stepfun.com platform, while also opening internal invitation testing. This intelligent tool is designed for fields such as finance, consulting, healthcare, law, policy, and academic research. It can independently complete complex research tasks in about ten minutes and generate reports that are both in-depth and professional, providing efficient support to researchers. The core advantage of 'Step Deep Research' lies in its powerful information processing and integration capabilities. In the context of Sequoia China

AI music creator Imoliver has signed with the record company Hallwood, marking a breakthrough in the commercialization of AI music. His AI-created song 'Stone' has accumulated over 3 million views, and will be officially released in August, with a full album set to drop in October. This collaboration demonstrates the music industry's recognition of AI creative models. Despite ongoing copyright lawsuits against Suno, this partnership paves the way for the commercialization of AI music and signals that human-machine collaboration is becoming a new trend in the music industry, driving it toward a technology-driven future.

Alibaba opensources the video generation model Tongyi Wanxiang Wan2.2, which includes three core models: text-to-video, image-to-video, and unified video generation. Innovations include: 1) the first MoE architecture in the industry, improving computational efficiency by 50%; 2) a cinematic aesthetic control system, enabling precise control over lighting, color, and other cinematic effects; 3) a 5B small-sized unified model that can be deployed on consumer-grade GPUs. This series of models has been open-sourced on platforms such as GitHub, with over 5 million downloads, significantly lowering the barrier to AI video generation.

Runway releases the revolutionary video editing model Aleph, which enables five core functions through natural language instructions: content addition/removal, environment transformation, style transfer, camera motion transfer, and green screen keying. This model breaks through by combining contextual understanding with visual generation technology, supporting the creation of multiple perspectives from a single video, significantly lowering the barrier to professional video production. The launch of Aleph will accelerate the popularization of AI in fields such as film and advertising. Future improvements will focus on performance optimization and the expansion of new features like real-time collaboration, providing creators with more powerful tools.

Pudong New Area launched a seed fund with a total scale of 2 billion yuan for artificial intelligence. The first phase is 500 million yuan, making it the first state-owned capital venture capital fund in China focusing on the pre-seed stage. It has signed 18 projects. The AI industry scale in Pudong exceeds 160 billion yuan, accounting for 40% of the city, and has gathered more than 200 specialized model enterprises. In the future, five major measures will be implemented: releasing over 30 application scenarios, building a heterogeneous robot training field, establishing a full-cycle fund matrix, optimizing industrial policies, and providing talent services. The goal is to add 1,000 AI companies within three years, and the core output value will exceed 200 billion yuan, aiming to build a comprehensive AI ecosystem.

VLM2Vec-V2, a multimodal embedding framework developed by Salesforce Research and other institutions, breaks through the limitations of traditional models. Based on the Qwen2-VL architecture, this framework innovatively unifies image, video, and visual document retrieval tasks. It adds five new evaluation tasks to expand the MMEB dataset. With key technologies such as dynamic resolution and M-RoPE, it achieved an average score of 58.0 across 78 datasets, leading in performance, especially in video tasks. Although its document retrieval is slightly behind ColPali, it

Zhiyuan Robotics announced the open-source plan for the Zhiyuan Lingqu OS, an embodied intelligence operating system, at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The humanoid robot Lingxi X2 demonstrated intelligent interaction capabilities through natural dialogue. The system adopts a layered open-source model, including underlying middleware, agent framework, and toolchain, with plans to launch in the fourth quarter. Zhiyuan Robotics has already achieved application in fields such as industrial logistics, and its Qiyuan general embodied large model won the SAIL Star Award. The company will continue to improve the operating system and promote the development of embodied intelligence industry.