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Photo Credit: Airwallex In the midst of a cold winter of investment and financing in the primary market, the fintech track has added another heavy financing - Airwallex, a global fintech unicorn, has recently announced the completion of a $300 million Series F round of financing, with a post-investment valuation of $6.2 billion. Investors include Squar...

Early this morning, American big model unicorn Anthropic officially unveiled the next generation of Claude models at its inaugural developer conference: the Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, the first Claude since June 2024...

With models pretty much rolled up, hardware has become another battleground in the AI space. After Google teased the upcoming Android XR devices with Gemini AI integration at the I/O conference yesterday, OpenAI is also sitting on the sidelines, and today the official...

On May 19th, local time, the four-day Microsoft Build annual developer conference officially kicked off, CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) with a group of executives delivered a keynote speech, but also the OpenAI CEO Sam...

OpenAi today announced Codex, a cloud-based programming intelligence that can multitask in parallel, powered by the codex-1 model. Available today for ChatGPT Pro, Team and Enterprise users, and soon for Plu...

Image Credit: Granola AI-powered note-taking tool Granola is gaining momentum. The startup has seen a surge in users since launching a year ago, largely thanks to VCs and word-of-mouth among its founders, but a major driving factor seems to be people expanding its use to...

AI Agent platform Clay has announced on its website that it has received an employee stock buyback offer led by Sequoia Capital, valued at $1.5 billion. The stock buyback program is valued higher than Clay's $1.25 billion last month, with a total buyback amount of $20 million. Primarily for all employees who have vested...

On the eve of I/O, Google bursts out with Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview Last night, Google announced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) ahead of the I/O conference. As its flagship Gemini 2.5 ...

Anysphere, the company that develops the AI programming tool Cursor, has closed a new round of funding that has seen its valuation more than triple from the start of the year to about $9 billion, showing once again that Silicon Valley AI apps startups are attracting a steady stream of funding. According to people familiar with the matter, the ...

While everyone was guessing who would come first, DeepSeek V4 or R2 or Qwen3, Qwen3 was released. In the early morning of April 29, Alibaba open-sourced a new generation of Tongyi Qianqian Qwen3 series models, covering 8 different sizes. Among them, the flagship model Qwen3 2...

What is MCP? What is MCP Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a communication protocol designed for machine learning model services to efficiently manage contextual information during model inference (e.g., session state, environment...

Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, announced on April 23 that it had closed a $93 million Series B round of funding (totaling $163 million) led by DFJ Growth, with Salesforce Ventures and other...

Google Inc. made an announcement on April 17, announcing the availability of the Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview preview AI model in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI in the form of the Gemini API...

April 16, 2025 Grok has officially announced the release of the first version of Grok Studio, a revolutionary AI programming tool. As the latest product from xAI, Grok Studio not only supports code execution, but also integrates...

At 1am today, OpenAI conducted a technical live stream to release its latest model, GPT-4.1. In addition to GPT-4.1, there are two other models, GPT 4.1-Mini and GPT 4.1-Nano, which have been developed in the areas of multimodal processing, code capability, instruction adherence, and into...

Stanford University's HAI Research Center has released the 2025 AI Index Report. The report covers a comprehensive analysis of many aspects from AI hardware and technology performance to responsible AI application, development, and policy governance, and is one of the most in-depth and authoritative reports analyzing AI in the world. The official website ...

Look at the market: fintech development enters the golden age, AI market scale is rapidly rising The global artificial intelligence in fintech market size is expected to climb to $14.41 billion in 2024, benefiting from the deep application of intelligent risk control, algorithmic trading and customer service, and in the next five years it will be 27.1% in...

Runway, a company specializing in video generation, officially launched their new generation of model series -- Gen-4, which is a story that the director has been brewing for more than ten years but has never been able to realize with AI. Prior to this, to create this video with AI, a series of problems need to be overcome: the corner...

This week, Midjourney is coming back strong with the new V7. The internal model has been trained, and the scoring system is now turned on, entering the final fine-tuning stage. Netizens have already released the birth charts, the effect is stunning, and the picture quality and fineness are pulled full circle. GPT-4o heat is not yet over, Midjourney...

No launch event, no overwhelming publicity, on March 24th DeepSeek version V3-0324 went live quietly. https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-032...