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On March 31, Qianxun Intelligence (Spirit AI), a leading company in the embodied AI field, announced the completion of a Pre-A round of funding totaling 528 million RMB. This round was led by Prosperity7 Ventures (P7), an affiliate of Aramco Ventures, with participation from several renowned investors including China Merchants Venture Capital, GF Securities, Jingya Capital, Orient Capital, and Huacontrol Investment.

Alibaba has open-sourced its new inference model, Tongyi Qianwen QwQ-32B, enabling users with consumer-grade GPUs to achieve surprisingly high performance. This makes advanced AI capabilities accessible to a wider audience.

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) large language model technology in recent years has led to a price war intensifying market competition. DataBao's latest statistics indicate this downward price trend will continue in 2025. Recently, companies like ByteDance and Alibaba Cloud have announced price reductions for their AI large language models, attracting significant industry attention. For example, ByteDance's Doubao large language model announced a price cut in December last year, reducing the price of its visual understanding model to 0.003 yuan/thousand tokens.

Recently, the well-known AI company DeepSeek has been actively expanding its workforce in response to rapid user growth. According to a recruitment platform, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fundamental Technology Research Co., Ltd., has posted multiple job openings covering various fields, including deep learning researchers, core system development engineers, and senior UI designers, with job locations in Beijing or Hangzhou.

On December 18th, at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the new Doubao Visual Understanding Model. This model processes both text and image-related information simultaneously, providing more accurate answers. The new model excels in content recognition, understanding, and reasoning capabilities, featuring more nuanced visual description abilities, which brings stronger intelligent processing capabilities to enterprise users. Tan Dai revealed at the conference that the Doubao Visual Understanding Model has achieved significant technological breakthroughs and has also seen a dramatic reduction in pricing.

Indian fintech giant Paytm has announced layoffs of 1,000 employees, affecting its operations, sales, and engineering teams. The primary reason for this decision is the integration of artificial intelligence technologies to enhance operational efficiency by using AI-driven automation to eliminate repetitive tasks, thus reducing costs and improving efficiency. This is not the first time layoffs have occurred; back in 2021, Paytm had previously laid off some employees due to performance issues. The layoffs mainly affect the lending team, which, despite the strong performance of the loan business, accounts for more than 30% of the total workforce. In response to cost pressures, the company has decided to downsize.

The latest version 2.6 of WallFacer’s MiniCPM-V series has rapidly climbed to the Top 3 on GitHub and HuggingFace trends, surpassing ten thousand stars. Since its release in February, it has accumulated over a million downloads, becoming a benchmark for on-device model capabilities. MiniCPM-V2.6 achieves performance enhancements for on-device multimodal models with 8 billion parameters, including real-time video understanding, multi-image joint understanding, and multi-image in-context learning, with a quantized backend memory of only 6GB and an inference speed of up to 18 tokens.

At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren announced the latest developments of the Tongyi Large Model and the Alibaba Cloud Baoyan Platform. The download volume of the Tongyi Qianwen open-source model has doubled in two months, exceeding 20 million times. At the same time, the number of clients using Alibaba Cloud Baoyan services has increased from 90,000 to 230,000, achieving a growth of over 150%.Zhou Jingren emphasized Alibaba Cloud's commitme

Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan announces the launch of a large model universal plan, allowing users to switch to the country's top large model platform at zero cost. Starting immediately, new registered enterprise users will receive: free access to the Wenxin flagship model for the first time, a 50 million Token package for the ERNIE 3.5 flagship model, and continuous free access to the main models ERNIE Speed, ERNIE Lite, and the lightweight model ERNIE Tiny.

Recently, the HELM MMLU released its latest results from Stanford University's large model evaluation leaderboard. Percy Liang, director of the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models, stated that Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen Qwen2-72B model has surpassed Llama3-70B in ranking, becoming the best-performing open-source large model.

MegaScale has built a single cluster with over 10,000 GPUs, achieving a model FLOP utilization rate of 55.2%. MegaScale includes diagnostic tools for monitoring system components and events.

The first original AI series animation from China, 'A Thousand Autumn Poems,' premiered on CCTV-1, signaling a potential acceleration in the application of text-to-video technology and reshaping production processes in the film industry. With rapid advancements in AI-generated video technology, it's possible that longer films may be created without the need for actors. Tsinghua University professor in Shenyang stated that the explosion of AI video technology will drive growth in the film and animation production industry.

On December 15th, Lucas's AI Exploration House launched a fun challenge to depict McDonald's ten thousand years ago using ChatGPT. The video showcases the images of McDonald's stores from different eras, sparking heated discussions among netizens. The name of McDonald's from a million years ago was similar to 'Monkey', drawing attention to the details. UGC (User Generated Content) is emerging in brand creative marketing, allowing consumers to co-create new ideas with brands through AI tools. Such challenges are becoming popular among brands, highlighting the potential significance of user-generated content. In March of this year, Coca-Cola held the 'Creat Real M'

By expanding the vocabulary, selecting data, and employing a multi-stage training strategy, the Chinese version of LLaMA2 was trained in 15 hours at a cost of a few thousand yuan. The performance of LLaMA2 on various Chinese tasks has significantly improved, reaching an advanced level compared to models of the same scale. The building process, code, and weights are all open source, making it transferable to other languages and fields. Achieve low-cost large model training by training the Chinese version of LLaMA2 in just 15 hours with a cost of a few thousand yuan. All training code and pre-trained weights are open source and can be directly applied to other languages and fields for rapid low-cost large model training.