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By 2025, the digital healthcare industry will experience robust growth driven by technological innovation and capital investment. Breakthroughs in two core areas—artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces—will be particularly significant, injecting powerful momentum into the sector's development. The integration of artificial intelligence and healthcare continues to deepen, becoming the core engine of industry advancement. As of...

On December 11, Apple published a paper introducing the 3D generation model SHARP, claiming that on standard GPUs, the model can reconstruct a single image into a photorealistic 3D scene in under one second. The model is now open-source. Users need only input a regular photo, and the model can generate a 3D scene through neural...

Just now, Google unveiled its latest model, Gemini 3 Flash. According to the introduction, it boasts cutting-edge intelligence and is built for speed, empowering everyone to learn, build, and plan anything faster. Even before the model's release, the Google AI Studio developer platform...

Swedish AI programming startup Lovable recently closed a new funding round, with its valuation soaring to $6.6 billion (approximately RMB 46.5 billion). This represents a more than threefold increase from its previous valuation of $1.8 billion (approximately RMB 13 billion) after the last funding round, making it one of Europe's most valuable startups. The company specializes in short...

Today, Ant Group announced the rebranding of its AI health application AQ to “Ant Afu,” alongside the release of a new app version featuring upgrades to three core functions: health companionship, health Q&A, and health services. Its positioning has shifted from an AI tool to an AI health companion. For instance, through Afu's “health companionship” feature, users can...

In the early hours of today, coinciding with OpenAI's tenth anniversary, the company officially launched its most powerful model to date, GPT-5.2, alongside the simultaneous release of ChatGPT and its API system. This update includes three variants of GPT-5.2: Instant, Thinking, and Pro...

On December 8, Unconventional AI, an AI computing power company established just two months prior, announced the completion of a $475 million (approximately RMB 3.356 billion) seed round financing, achieving a valuation of $4.5 billion (approximately RMB 31.8 billion). This funding was led by...

Last Thursday, AI video generation platform Pollo AI announced the completion of a $14 million (approximately RMB 98.97 million) seed round of financing. This round was led by GaoCheng Capital with participation from ZhenFund, marking Pollo AI's first institutional funding since its launch in September 2024. ...

On December 4, U.S.-based AI legal technology company Harvey announced it had raised $160 million (approximately RMB 1.131 billion) in Series F funding, achieving a valuation of $8 billion (approximately RMB 56.573 billion). This funding round comes just five months after its previous financing, during which the company...

On November 3, OpenAI announced its acquisition of Neptune, a Polish startup specializing in AI model training tools. The two companies have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition through a stock swap, with some Neptune employees joining OpenAI. Although OpenAI did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction...