ENLatest AI NewsAlphabet Borrowing $25 Billion, SoftBank Pledges OpenAI Shares for a $10 Billion Loan: The AI Arms Race Is Endless in Terms of SpendingAI arms race heats up, Alphabet plans to issue bonds to raise $20-25 billion, with a maximum maturity of 40 years and interest rates slightly above Treasury yields. This highlights AI as a capital-intensive industry, requiring massive funding for computing power and talent. Tech giants are using financial means to compete for the future…..9 hours ago11.9KWang Xingxing from Unitree: Continuously Focus on Embodied Intelligence Technology and Explore New Products such as Humanoid RobotsWang Xingxing, CEO of Unitree, stated that the listing is a new starting point. In the future, the company will focus on core technology research and industrial applications of general-purpose embodied intelligent robots, and promote robots entering social service scenarios. Key efforts will be directed towards embodied large models, scenario data collection and analysis, reinforcement learning, body models, self-researched core components, and high-performance actuation mechanisms, accelerating the innovation of software and hardware integration.11 hours ago15.4KVolcano Engine Launches Seedance 2.5 API, Video Generation Capabilities Fully UpgradedVolcengine launches Seedance2.5 API, upgrading instruction following, long narrative, realism, and audio-visual quality over v2.0. It natively supports 30-second video generation, up to 50 multimodal references, precise video editing, and support for 10+ languages. Optimized image quality, sound, lighting, camera movement, and aesthetics, pushing AI content toward cinematic long-form storytelling…..11 hours ago14.1KXiaomi Smart Camera 4 Max AI Zoom Edition Now Available for Sale: Integrated with an AI Large Model, Priced at 799 YuanThe Xiaomi Smart Camera 4Max AI Zoom Edition is officially on sale, priced at 739 yuan on JD.com. The core upgrade features the first AI care model from Xiaomi and a 3T four-core chip, tripling the computing power. It moves beyond traditional ‘motion detection’ alerts, supporting more detailed behavior recognition with the AI large model to improve monitoring accuracy.12 hours ago15.1KNeon Teams Up with Castform to Train a 4B Document Search Small Model: Accuracy Exceeds GPT-5.6, Cost is Just 1% of ItNeon and Castform collaborated to train a 4B open-source model using reinforcement learning, achieving document search accuracy comparable to or surpassing GPT-5.6Sol, with inference cost only 1% of it. This shift from vector embedding to agentic search lets the model autonomously execute retrieval…..12 hours ago12.9KInsta360 GO Ultra Launches AI Voice Assistant: Regional Access to Qwen and Gemini, Thumb Camera Becomes Personal AI Entry PointInsta360 GO Ultra thumb camera features an AI voice assistant, using Alibaba’s Qwen in mainland China and Google Gemini in HK, Macau, Taiwan, and overseas. It integrates multimodal and photo Q&A with on-device voiceprint intent recognition; cloud handles Q&A, mode switching, and translation with speaker playback. Founder Liu Jingkang says it will redefine thumb cameras…..12 hours ago12.2KAI Writes 700,000 Virus Genomes, 16 of Which Survived in the Lab: A Milestone in Generative Biology and a Security QuestionStanford/Arc Institute team used Evo genomic language model to generate ~700K candidate sequences, synthesized 285, validated 16 bacteriophages that replicate, infect and kill E. coli. Published in Science on Aug 6, it shifts AI-generated biology from single protein design to de novo complete viral genomes, outputting only DNA sequences…..12 hours ago13.0KGoogle Releases Offline Translation Hardware Gemma Translator: Raspberry Pi with 5.1 Billion Parameters, Cross-language Conversation Without Internet Connection ThroughoutGoogle Creative Lab launched Gemma Translator, an offline translation device using Gemma4E2B model (5.1B total parameters, 2.3B active parameters), designed for resource-constrained edge devices like phones, browsers, and Raspberry Pi. Built on Raspberry Pi 5, it transcribes spoken input into target language in real time and plays the translation through a speaker, enabling fully offline translation…..13 hours ago15.5KInsta360 GO Ultra Launches AI Voice Assistant, Integrates Qwen and GeminiInsta360 will launch an AI voice assistant for the GO Ultra thumb camera on August 7. The assistant will use Alibaba’s Qwen model in mainland China and Google Gemini in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and overseas…..13 hours ago12.6KByteDance Aims for 5 Trillion Parameters: Dou Bao’s Intelligence is Expected to Reach Its Peak, at the Cost of Million-Level GPU Computing PowerDomestic LLM parameters keep scaling, with Qwen3.8Max reaching 2.4T and Kimi K3 2.8T. ByteDance plans to train a model with over 5T parameters, potentially becoming China’s largest, but project is early-stage and may not release. The 5T scale is seen at GPT-5.6 or Opus5 level, signa