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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.....

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...

OpenAI acquires io Products, an AI equipment company founded by Jony Ive, former design director of Apple, through a stock-only deal worth $6.5 billion, officially entering the hardware field. This acquisition brings OpenAI a top team that previously worked on the design of the iPhone. Jony Ive will be deeply involved in product design. Despite previous setbacks due to trademark disputes, this remains OpenAI's largest acquisition to date. CEO Sam Altman stated that this move will drive the integration of AI technology and hardware, and future innovative AI devices will be launched. The acquisition marks OpenAI's step into the tech scene.

Recently, a sensational controversy has erupted in the field of artificial intelligence. The startup IYO, which was spun off from Google X Lab, has accused OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of plagiarizing its smart earpiece technology, and claims that OpenAI attempted to cover up this act by acquiring Jony Ive's company IO for $6.5 billion. IYO's allegations: OpenAI is suspected of stealing smart earpiece technology. IYO is a startup that has been focusing on developing AI-powered smart earpieces since 2018, with its products designed to control voice through

According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple had discussed the possibility of acquiring Thinking Machines Lab, an AI company founded by Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, earlier this year. During her time at OpenAI, Mira Murati experienced board turmoil and temporarily served as the acting CEO, but she soon chose to leave and founded Thinking Machines Lab. Image source note: Picture

The Nanometer AI Super Search Intelligent Entity under the 360 Company has undergone a major update, adding new features such as multimodal content generation, cross-domain professional search, and smarter task preview functions. From one-click generation of PPTs, PDF reports to automatically integrating videos, voiceover scripts, and storyboard planning, Nano AI redefines the boundary of AI search and creation with more efficient and intuitive experiences. AIbase comprehensively organizes the latest social media dynamics to help you deeply understand the latest breakthroughs of Nano AI. Multimodal Generation: Handle everything from PPTs to videos with one click.

Recently, Reddit filed a lawsuit with the San Francisco Superior Court against the AI startup company Anthropic, accusing it of making over 100,000 unlawful accesses to its platform since July 2024 despite being explicitly prohibited. This action has attracted significant attention. Reddit accused Anthropic of not only violating its platform rules but also acting immorally and illegally while pretending to uphold ethics and law in public. In the lawsuit, Reddit described Anthropic...

According to reports from the Financial Times, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is launching a stock sale plan worth $300 million. This plan is believed to be conducted in the secondary market with the aim of allowing company employees to sell their shares to new investors. The valuation of this stock sale reached $113 billion (approximately RMB 813.67 billion), showing the high attention the market pays to xAI. Previously, xAI was valued at $33 billion.

Recently, the MiMo-VL multi-modal model developed by Xiaomi Company has taken over the baton from MiMo-7B, showcasing powerful capabilities in multiple fields. The model significantly outperforms the same-size benchmark multi-modal model Qwen2.5-VL-7B in tasks such as general question answering and understanding inference for images, videos, and language, and its performance in GUI Grounding tasks is comparable to that of specialized models, preparing for the arrival of the Agent era.

Sarah Frueh, CFO of OpenAI, recently revealed at the Dublin Tech Summit that the company's ongoing organizational restructuring is paving the way for a possible initial public offering (IPO). Although OpenAI is actively preparing, whether it can successfully go public depends on both the company's own preparation and the overall atmosphere of the capital market. Image source note: Images generated by AI, images authorized service provider Midjourney. Frueh mentioned Microsoft's investment in OpenAI.

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the AI agent market, the Alibaba Cloud Qianlian MCP Plaza has officially launched. Meitu Imaging, Yingmi Qianshan, XiaoIce Digital Humans, and more than 40 high-quality MCP services have made their debut, providing users with capabilities to build AI agents across multiple fields such as image editing, financial analysis, digital humans, etc. With the significant enhancement of large model inference capabilities, intelligent application is experiencing explosive growth. Market research institutions such as Markets and Markets and IDC predict the smart agent market will reach hundreds of billions of US dollars.

Baidu officially announced the establishment of a new enterprise named Baidu (Shandong) Technology Co., Ltd., which quickly attracted widespread attention in the industry. According to relevant information, the legal representative of the company is Huang Long, and its registered capital is as high as 200 million RMB. This move not only demonstrates Baidu's firm determination in the field of artificial intelligence but also provides new momentum for expanding its business territory. The business scope of Baidu (Shandong) Technology Co., Ltd. is very extensive, covering the development of artificial intelligence application software, integrated services for artificial intelligence industry applications, and more.

According to Science and Technology Board News, the parent company of the intelligent product Manus, Butterfly Effect, is planning a new round of financing with a target amount of $100 million and an evaluation value of $1.5 billion. According to insiders, state-owned background funds will participate in this round of financing, and the funds raised will mainly be used to expand business in the Chinese market. This move shows Butterfly Effect's emphasis on the Chinese market prospects, and also indicates that the AI intelligent product Manus will accelerate its development domestically.