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In April 2025, Moonvalley, a video generation technology company, announced the successful completion of a $43 million Series B funding round. The round involved 11 unnamed investors, bringing the company's total funding to $113 million. This investment will further fuel Moonvalley's technological innovation and market expansion in the AI video generation field. Just ten days prior to the funding announcement, Moonvalley launched its first video generation model, Marey.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have recently released their latest research achievement – the TULIP (Towards Unified Language-Image Pretraining) model. This model aims to enhance the performance of vision-language pre-training, particularly in visually-centric tasks requiring high-fidelity understanding, overcoming the limitations of existing contrastive learning models (such as CLIP). TULIP integrates innovative techniques such as generative data augmentation, enhanced contrastive learning, and reconstruction regularization.

Still struggling with sound effects for your short videos? Still searching for the perfect BGM that always falls short? Now, ByteDance is releasing a blockbuster AI technology that breaks the final silent spell of video creation! Their newly launched SeedFoley sound effect generation model is like injecting life into your videos. With just one click, it intelligently matches professional-level sound effects to your videos, instantly transforming your work from a silent film into a vibrant cinematic experience. The effect is stunning! Even more exciting, this AI sound effect technology has quickly launched on ByteDance's platform.

Sesame's newly released Conversational Speech Model (CSM) has recently sparked heated discussions on X, lauded as a voice model that sounds "just like a real person." Its stunning naturalness and emotional expressiveness not only make it indistinguishable from human speech for users, but also claim to have successfully overcome the uncanny valley effect in the field of voice technology. With the spread of demonstration videos and user feedback, CSM is rapidly becoming a leader in AI voice technology.

Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence startup Shield AI recently announced that its valuation has nearly doubled to $5 billion in a new funding round. The San Diego-based company focuses on developing AI-driven software for drones and autonomous aircraft, planning to raise approximately $200 million from several defense and aerospace companies, including well-known firms such as Palantir, Airbus, and L3 Harris. Venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Point72, and Ri.

Recently, Alibaba Damo Academy launched a multi-modal large language model named Valley 2, designed for e-commerce scenarios. It aims to enhance performance across various fields and expand the application boundaries of e-commerce and short video scenarios through a scalable vision-language architecture. Valley 2 utilizes Qwen 2.5 as its LLM backbone, paired with the SigLIP-384 visual encoder, incorporating MLP layers and convolution for efficient feature transformation.

With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence technology, the methods of phishing scams have become increasingly covert and intelligent. These scams typically disguise themselves as trustworthy sources through emails or social media messages, attempting to extract sensitive data from unsuspecting victims. Nowadays, scammers leverage AI bots and personalized information, making these schemes even harder to identify, leading to an unprecedented rise in cybercrime. Scammers utilize AI technology to continuously scrape company or personal information from social media. These programs can collect vast amounts of information about

Against the backdrop of Trump's return to the White House, top entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley are quietly becoming key technological advisors to the president. Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks are among those strategizing for Trump, with their most notable point being their strong criticism of AI regulation. This group of tech elites believes that AI chatbots are emerging as a new ideological battleground. Their core concern is that large tech companies may use AI systems to propagate specific political positions, achieving a more covert and effective form of 'regulation'.

Recently, Adobe's research team collaborated with researchers from the University of Michigan to develop an artificial intelligence system called MultiFoley, which generates sound effects for dubbing in films and videos, assisting in post-production. The innovation of MultiFoley lies in its ability to allow users to create sound effects through text prompts, reference audio, or video examples. In demonstrations, the system can even transform a cat's meow into a lion's roar, or convert the sound of a typewriter into piano notes, perfectly synchronized with video footage.

Europe's most valuable artificial intelligence startup, Mistral, is actively expanding its operations in the United States to compete for AI talent with rivals in Silicon Valley. The Paris-based company is establishing a new office in Palo Alto, California, and is seeking to hire engineers, scientists, and sales teams to drive its growth in the U.S. market. According to insiders, one of Mistral's co-founders, Guillaume Lample, is also involved.

One Zero is a fintech company aimed at applying artificial intelligence to retail banking services. The company was co-founded by Amnon Shashua, the founder and CEO of Mobileye, and is currently raising at least $100 million. One Zero's mission is to make private banking services accessible to the public, achieving this goal through a dual business focus. Source note: The image is AI-generated, licensed from service provider Midjourney in Israel, One Zero has secured.

In Silicon Valley, the garage culture has birthed many tech legends, and Christoph Kohstall's garage may be the next. Inside his workspace, electrical components, workbenches, and mechanical tools are scattered everywhere, but the most striking feature is the red industrial beams on the ceiling—a gantry system used to stabilize robots during testing. Kohstall is the founder of Kind Humanoid, a startup developing a bipedal robot called Mona. Though their work environment appears chaotic, it is filled with innovation.