Mercor, an AI upstart founded by 3 post-00s, raises $350 million in funding, valuation breaks $10 billion
What is the concept of dropping out of school at the age of 22 to start a business and doing it at the age of 24 to create a unicorn with a valuation of 10 billion dollars? Today, the U.S. AI recruitment unicorn Mercor officially announced that it has taken 250 million U.S. dollars (equivalent to about 1.8 billion yuan) of new financing, valued at 10 billion U.S. dollars (equivalent to about 71 billion yuan), which is its present...
Tencent ima 2.0 released, one sentence search millions of knowledge bases, 200 million pieces of knowledge
October 23, in tencent AI workbench ima released the first anniversary of the event site, ima2.0 version of the updated content was officially announced, including the Agent ability based on the “task mode”, as well as the knowledge base “AI key points” and other functions, will be launched on the 24th internal beta test on the 27th. It will be launched on the 24th for internal testing, and will be officially launched on the 27th...
OpenAI Releases AI Browser ChatGPT Atlas, Challenging Chrome Supremacy
On October 21st, local time, OpenAI officially launched ChatGPT Atlas, an independent AI-powered web browser, through an online live broadcast.This ChatGPT-centered browser is not only the first time for OpenAI to venture into the field of Internet terminal tools, but also the first time for users to access the web...
Sakana AI, the AI star unicorn pitched by Jen-Hsun Huang, is valued at over $18 billion after more than 2 years of existence
OpenAI's Japanese bidder Sakana AI has been revealed to be raising $100 million (Rs. 700 million) at a valuation of $2.5 billion (Rs. 17.8 billion), compared to $1.5 billion in September last year, The Information reported, citing people with knowledge of the...
Baidu's new open-source model PaddleOCR-VL tops the charts overnight, recognizing 109 languages with the world's top overall score
Baidu open source multilingual document parsing model PaddleOCR-VL on October 16, three consecutive days to dominate the Hugging Face Trend List first. PaddleOCR-VL can recognize complex elements such as text, tables, formulas and charts in 109 languages, including all...
Aishi Technology Completes $100 Million Series B+ Financing, Hits 100 Million Global Users, Over $40 Million ARR
On October 17, AI video enterprise Aishi Technology announced the completion of RMB 100 million B+ round of financing, co-invested by Fosun Ruizheng, Tongchuang Weiye, Shunxi Fund and other co-investments. The company's products PixVerse and Pat Me AI serve C-end public and professional creators, and the current user scale has exceeded...
Google Veo 3.1 Video Generation Model Released: New Audio Support, Object Addition, and More!
Today, Google announced the launch of the new Veo 3.1 video generation model, the new version of the improved picture realism and narrative control, while having a more powerful cue word comprehension and audio-video synchronization generation capabilities. Relying on the capabilities of Veo 3.1, Google has simultaneously upgraded its AI film and television creation platform...
TIME Announces List of Best Inventions of the Year: Huawei, Lenovo, DeepSeek, and Other Companies' Products Make the List
October 9, the U.S. "Times" (Times) announced the 2025 annual list of best inventions, Huawei, Lenovo, BYD, glory, millet, DeepSeek, Yu tree technology, chasing technology, Thunderbird Innovation, XREAL, Shadowstone Innovation, Transfusion, shaoyin, squirrel AI, extreme philosophical...
OpenAI Launches Sora 2, AI-Generated Video Upgraded, "AI Version of Jitterbit" Opens New Creative Experience
In the early hours of October 1, OpenAI released its flagship video and audio generation model, Sora 2, and launched the "AI version of Jitterbug" - the Sora app. OpenAI calls Sora 2 "a GPT-3.5 moment straight out of the video space". Compared to the previous Sor...
Claude Sonnet 4.5 comes out strong: Programming ability upgraded again, over 30 hours of autonomous code writing
Today, Claude Sonnet 4.5 was officially released, a model that can sustain focused processing of complex multi-step tasks for more than 30 hours, topping the list of programming skills, computer manipulation skills, and surpassing the GPT-5 in many aspects of reasoning, math, and programming of intelligences. Claud...