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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.

Black Forest Labs & Krea launch open-source image model FLUX.1-Krea, addressing AI's artificial look via 12B-parameter diffusion. Enhanced training improves realism in lighting/colors, compatible with FLUX ecosystem for commercial use.....

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

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.....

The paper by Dr. Liang Wenfeng's team at DeepSeek in collaboration with Peking University has won the ACL 2025 Best Paper Award. This research proposes the Native Sparse Attention (NSA) mechanism, which achieves algorithm-hardware co-optimization through three parallel attention branches: compression, selection, and sliding. It improves the processing speed of long texts by 11 times and outperforms traditional full-attention models. NSA supports a context length of up to 1 million tokens, achieving an 11.6 times decoding speed improvement on 64k text, and a 27B parameter model demonstrates excellent performance on multiple benchmark tests.

Volc Engine launched new models and service upgrades in the Dabao series at the Xiamen AI Innovation Tour: 1) Introduced the Image Editing 3.0 model, supporting natural language photo editing; 2) The Simultaneous Interpretation 2.0 model reduces latency to 2-3 seconds and supports voice replication; 3) Upgraded the Dabao large model 1.6 series, with the ultra-fast version TPOT taking only 10ms and reducing costs by 70%; 4) Open-sourced core capabilities of the Kousi development platform, which received over 10,000 stars in three days; 5) Launched an enterprise-owned model hosting solution, simplifying the deployment process. These upgrades provide full-stack support for enterprise AI applications, accelerating implementation.

Kunlun open-sources Skywork UniPic, a 1.5B-parameter multimodal model integrating image understanding, generation, and editing. It unifies multimodal tasks with end-to-end pretraining, offering strong performance comparable to larger models.....

Volcano Ark launches SeedEdit3.0, an AI image editor featuring voice-controlled editing. Based on Seedream3.0, it handles 10MP images with precise detail adjustments while preserving backgrounds. Excels in natural language understanding for complex edits like text replacement and day-night conversion. Applications include design, e-commerce, watermark removal, photo restoration, and style transfer, lowering editing barriers.....

CAS-SIAT's HYPIR model restores 8K images in 1.7s with advanced text reconstruction, outperforming traditional methods through optimized algorithms. Applied in photo restoration and heritage conservation.....

Google upgrades the Imagen4 image generation model. Imagen4Ultra ranks third globally in authoritative rankings, with performance close to GPT-4o and Seedream3.0. The new version significantly improves image details, realism, and style consistency, and handles complex prompts more accurately. It has a clear price advantage, with the standard version at $40 per thousand images and the Ultra version at $60 per thousand images, far lower than GPT-4o's $167. The generation speed is 9.5 seconds per image, faster than GPT-4o but slightly slower than Seedream3.

Shenzhen Institute develops HYPIR model, restoring old photos to 8K in 1.7s with AI, advancing image processing for heritage and film restoration.....

Doubao App has made a major upgrade in the field of visual reasoning. Its image analysis feature now supports a deep thinking mode, offering users an unprecedented intelligent experience. Users just need to take or upload a picture while in deep thinking mode, and Doubao can quickly perform fine adjustments such as zooming and cropping, and supports image search functionality, enabling users to think and search simultaneously, thereby further improving the accuracy of search results.

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.

Kuaishou Cola AI announced two important developments at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference: the launch of the integrated creation platform Linghu Animation Canvas and the upgrade of the multi-image reference feature. Data shows that the platform has surpassed 45 million global creators, generating a total of 200 million videos and 400 million images. The new workbench integrates features such as infinite canvas, intelligent assistance, and multi-user collaboration, offering a one-stop creative experience. The upgraded multi-image reference feature significantly improves character consistency, scene uniformity, and local control capabilities. In terms of commercialization, the number of B-end merchants has seen explosive growth, with 20,000 companies across 149 countries worldwide.

At the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Baidu presented multiple innovative achievements and latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence. During the conference, Baidu announced that its Apollo Go, PaddlePaddle Deep Learning Platform, and Baidu Intelligent Computing Cluster have been selected for the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Exhibition. Among them, Apollo Go not only exhibited as an item but also served as a shuttle vehicle for the conference, demonstrating the mature application of its autonomous driving technology. Currently, Apollo Go has provided over 11 million travel services worldwide, with safety driving mileage exceeding 1

iFlytek's upgraded Spark X1 model enhances translation, reasoning, and text generation, achieving top-tier global performance with 20% better translation quality. It scores over 80 in EN-CN conference translation, reduces AI hallucinations, and boosts efficiency for 100+ firms by 50%. Available via web, app, and API.....

Alibaba Cloud is about to release the upgraded video generation AI model Wan 2.2, achieving multiple breakthroughs based on Wan 2.1: 1) Performance improvements, supporting high-resolution 1080p/4K and long video generation; 2) New video-to-audio function, enhancing multimodal creation; 3) Optimized hardware requirements, capable of running on devices with 6GB VRAM; 4) Training data expanded to 1.5 billion videos + 10 billion images; 5) Continued open-source strategy, using the Apache 2.0 license. This model will solidify Alibaba's leading position in the field of AI video generation.

Google Photos introduces AI features to turn static photos into 6s videos with artistic styles, powered by Veo2 and Imagen models. Features include digital watermarks and are rolling out in the US, with Remix coming soon.....

Kuaishou and Shanghai Jiao Tong University announced the open-source multimodal generation model Orthus at the ICML conference. The model is based on an autoregressive Transformer architecture and demonstrates excellent performance in text-image conversion tasks, with significantly improved computational efficiency compared to existing models. Orthus uses a unique architectural design, separating processing of text and image features through specific modal generation heads, and efficiently fusing them in a unified representation space. Research shows that the model outperforms professional models in image understanding and text-to-image tasks, while also demonstrating strong potential in application scenarios such as image editing, making it a breakthrough in multimodal generation.