ENLatest AI NewsNo Cloud API Required! Liquid AI Launches Local-Running LFM2.5 Edge Intelligence ModelOn August 5, Liquid AI launched LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6B-parameter on-device model for agentic workflows, running fully locally on phones with low cost, low latency, and privacy. Pre-trained on 34T tokens with 128K vocabulary, it uses supervised fine-tuning, teacher specialization, and multi-domain strategies…..7 hours ago60.8KTencent Hunyuan Hy ASR3.0 Preview Release: From Hearing to Understanding, Accents and Word Error Rate Reduced to 3%Tencent Hunyuan launches Hy ASR3.0 Preview, built on the large language model Hy3. It integrates high-accuracy recognition with deep semantic understanding, enabling a shift from word-by-word transcription to contextual comprehension. Covering ten major dialect regions, it excels in long audio scenarios without relying on standard Mandarin, allowing AI to truly understand speech…..7 hours ago12.7KJi Meng AI Integrates with Seedance 2.5 and Launches Maya/Blender Plugins, ByteDance Completes the Full Workflow of AI Video Professional CreationByteDance’s Jimeng AI integrates Seedance 2.5 model, launches Maya & Blender plugins, accelerating shift to pro film/3D creation. Single video generation length doubled to 30s…..8 hours ago12.2KWorld Bank tells emerging economies: Don’t compete with rich countries on data centers and large models, local small tools are the way to goWorld Bank report advises developing economies to swiftly embed AI in governance and business, adapting tools to local needs instead of competing with wealthy nations on large models and data centers. Promoting localized, low-cost AI can truly improve healthcare and education amid the weakest growth in 30 years…..8 hours ago10.7KWuwen Xinqiong Partners with MiniMax: From Inference Efficiency to Token Services, Domestic Large Models Join Forces to Build an EcosystemWuwen Xinqiong and MiniMax signed a strategic partnership focusing on four areas: jointly optimizing model inference efficiency, building large model token services and AI infrastructure, co-innovating application paradigms, and expanding industry intelligent scenarios. They complement each other: Wuwen excels in computing power scheduling and inference infrastructure, while MiniMax has self-developed large models and massive application traffic…..8 hours ago12.7KMistral Launches Shieldstral: A 3B Small Model Runs on a Single 16GB GPU for Multimodal Moderation, Claims to Achieve Open-Source SOTAMistral AI released the open-source content moderation model Shieldstral, with 3B parameters, under the Apache 2.0 license, supporting 12 languages and running on a single 16GB GPU. It claims performance comparable to 7 times larger models and achieves SOTA in multimodal moderation, but points out that most protection models have a fixed harm classification system.8 hours ago12.0KRecord-breaking! A total of 8 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists have reported using artificial intelligence this yearThis year, a total of 8 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists have voluntarily disclosed the use of AI, setting a record since the introduction of AI reporting rules last year, with 5 of them ultimately winning. The report shows that this year’s participants have more frequently used generative AI and large models for basic newsroom tasks such as searching through massive documents, organizing data, and cross-verifying information.9 hours ago14.0KVisa Spends 2.4 Billion Dollars to Acquire AI Fraud Prevention Company BioCatch: Analyzing 19 Billion Interactions Per Month to Curb Financial Fraud at the SourcePayment giant Visa announced a $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Israeli AI fraud prevention company BioCatch, integrating its behavioral analysis and device intelligence technologies to enhance risk detection capabilities for account theft, fraud, fake accounts, and false account openings. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close by the end of March 2027. BioCatch was founded in 2011 and specializes in AI fraud prevention.9 hours ago11.7K52,000 Yuan upon Signing! Robot Unicorn Yushu Technology Advances to the Sci-Tech Innovation Board, Estimated Issue Price Exceeds 100 YuanYushu Technology started the preliminary inquiry for its Sci-Tech Innovation Board IPO on August 5th, determined the issue price and valid quotation on the 6th, started the subscription on the 10th, and the payment deadline is on the 12th. The company plans to issue 40.4464 million new shares.10 hours ago12.4KByteDance Seed Launches SeedRealtime: Full-duplex Audio-Visual Large Model for Car Integration, Doubao Allows Watching, Listening, and Speaking Without LagByteDance’s Seed team launched SeedRealtime, a unified model that natively fuses audio, video, and text for full-duplex real-time interaction—enabling seeing, listening, and speaking simultaneously. It is now fully deployed in the Doubao App, marking the first large-scale implementation. Unlik