Latest AI Events

SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, launched a $500 billion AI project 'Gateway to the Stars'. They're building data centers and infrastructure and exploring project financing to meet the huge funding need.

IBM's AI platform watsonx.ai now supports DeepSeek-R1 distilled versions of Llama 3.18B and 3.370B models. DeepSeek uses knowledge distillation for optimization, and users can access it in two ways on watsonx.ai.

Huggingface released the Open LLM Leaderboard. Top 10 open source large models are derivative models fine-tuned from Alibaba Tongyi Qwen, showing Qwen's strength in open-source AI.

Tongyi Laboratory under Alibaba open-sources InspireMusic, an innovative music generation tech. It aims to build an open-source AIGC toolkit with multiple generation capabilities, offering rich tools and efficient models.

A public interest AI partnership supported by Google has been launched, and it has successfully raised over $400 million.

Google has made changes to its AI premium plan, with NotebookLM Plus now available for free.

ZyphraAI has open-sourced Zonos-TTS, which comes with features like real-time voice cloning and multilingual emotion control.

ByteDance launched OmniHuman-1. It can quickly turn a single photo into a talking, moving virtual human with lip sync, full-body movement and rich expressions, going beyond traditional deepfake tech.

Google has expanded NotebookLM Plus, providing personal users with a new AI note-taking experience.

DingTalk's AI Assistant integrates DeepSeek model series. Users can select from models like R1 and V3 when creating an assistant. A new template streamlines creation, and the DeepSeek - based assistant has thinking and query capabilities.