AI Data Labeling Rising Star Micro1 Raises $35 Million, Valuation Soars to $500 Million
On September 12, U.S. AI data labeling startup Micro1 announced the completion of $35 million (equivalent to about 250 million yuan) in Series A financing, with a post-investment valuation of $500 million (equivalent to about 3.5 billion yuan). This round of financing was led by 01 Advisors, an organization led by former X...
New MoE architecture! Ali open source Qwen3-Next, training costs straight down 90%!
The Large Language Model (LLM), is entering the Next Level. In the early morning of Friday, Ali Tongyi team officially released and open-sourced the next-generation base model architecture Qwen3-Next. 80B of total parameters of the model is only activated 3B, the performance can be comparable to the flagship version of the Qianqian 3 235B model...
AI video company Aishi Technology closes $60 million Series B round led by Alibaba
On September 10, AI video generation enterprise Aishi Technology announced the completion of more than 60 million U.S. dollars in Series B financing, led by Alibaba and followed by investors such as Dachen Caixin, Shenzhen Venture Capital, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Hunan Dianguang, Giant Network and Antler. It is reported that this is the domestic video birth...
Ali ends up with the strongest voice model Qwen3-ASR-Flash: Hear clearly, recognize accurately!
On September 8, Ali released its latest speech recognition model Qwen3-ASR-Flash, which is trained based on the Qwen3 base model and supports 11 languages and multiple accents. Users can use ModelScope, HuggingFace and AliCloud Hundred Refined API...
Ali Tongyi Thousand Questions released the largest model to date - Qwen3-Max-Preview, the number of parameters over 1 trillion
On September 5, Ali went live with the Preview version of Qwen3-Max, the strongest model in the Qwen3 series, which is also Ali's largest model to date, with more than 1 trillion participants. The model has now landed on the Ali Bailian platform, and is available for free on the Tongyi Thousand Questions app and Qwen Chat...
Anthropic Raises $13 Billion, Valuation Soars to $183 Billion, Becomes World's Fourth Largest Unicorn
Early this morning, big model unicorn Anthropic announced the completion of $13 billion (equivalent to about 92.8 billion yuan) F round of financing, post-investment valuation of $183 billion (equivalent to about 1.3 trillion yuan), about $61.5 billion (equivalent to about 439.1 billion yuan), about $615 billion (equivalent to about 439.1 billion yuan) in March this year,...
TIME Magazine names the 100 most influential people in AI in 2025, and multiple people from China make the cut
TIME magazine has released its 2025 "TIME100 AI" list, recognizing the top 100 most influential people in the world of artificial intelligence. TIME's team of editors and journalists spent months researching the candidates for the list and consulted with a wide range of industry...
Top 100 Global AI Applications List: ChatGPT Leads the Way, China's AI Power Rises Strongly
Leading global venture capital firm a16z has newly released the fifth edition of its Global Top 100 Generative AI Consumer Apps List, which reveals evolving trends in everyday AI usage behavior based on two-and-a-half years of tracking monthly access data as well as monthly active user (MAU) data. Key highlights such as...
Nail disruptive product reconstruction, a breath of release of more than 10 heavyweight AI products
On August 25, Nail held a conference to release version 8.0, marking the largest user scale of the mobile Internet era of collaborative office APP officially to AI native. Nail CEO Wuzhao said: "Nail 8.0 is also the 1.0 of AI Nail, we are determined to empty the past, with a zero mentality, for A...
Enterprise WeChat 5.0 released: re-launch of the top ten AI features, new upgrade of the office experience
Enterprise WeChat 5.0 is officially released, the new version focuses on updating the intelligent search, intelligent summary, intelligent robot, form collaboration, service record organization, enterprise business card and other functions, but also in the mailbox, internationalization and private deployment of the expansion. First, AI helps office efficiency Intelligent summary The work of...