Yushu Technology Advances to the Sci-Tech Innovation Board IPO with a Billion-Dollar Valuation Supported by Alibaba and Tencent

Apple AI executive Ruoming Pang has joined Meta, joining its newly established Super Intelligence Lab with a salary of millions of dollars. Meta recently restructured its AI business, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and invested 2.9 billion dollars in Scale AI. This move highlights the increasing competition among tech giants for AI talent, as Meta accelerates its layout through high salaries and strategic investments. Apple and Meta have not commented on the matter.
Microsoft has released the public preview of Deep Research, a new service called Azure AI Foundry. This service functions as a research assistant similar to OpenAI agents. It can automatically break down complex tasks, perform multi-turn information retrieval and verification using Bing search and GPT models, and generate audit-able research reports. The service is applicable to fields such as academia, finance, and healthcare, and supports API integration, significantly improving research efficiency. Applications are now open, and developers can integrate its automation capabilities into their own applications.
On July 7, the Baidu AI team announced the official release of PaddleOCR 3.1, achieving three major upgrades in multilingual recognition, complex document translation, and large model connectivity. The new version supports text recognition in 37 languages, with an average accuracy improvement of over 30%. It also introduces a document translation pipeline and MCP server functionality to help developers efficiently build AI applications. To address multilingual needs in global scenarios, PaddleOCR 3.1 adds the PP-OCRv5 multilingual model, covering 37 languages including French, Spanish, and Russian.
In August 2024, iFlytek officially launched the Starfire Ultra Human-like Interactive Technology. Through end-to-end speech modeling and multi-dimensional emotional disentanglement training, it achieves three core breakthroughs: response speed, emotional resonance, and controllable speech expression. This technology can accurately detect emotional fluctuations in user speech and respond with appropriate tone in real time, while supporting dynamic adjustment of speech rate, voice, and character settings. It marks a significant leap from 'functional implementation' to 'emotional connection' in voice interaction. Currently, the Super Human-like Interactive API has been officially launched on the iFlytek Open Platform, allowing developers to access the technology at a low cost.
On July 7, the Tencent Hunyuan 3D team announced the launch of the industry's first art-level 3D generation large model, Hunyuan3D-PolyGen. By employing self-developed high-compression representation BPT technology and a autoregressive mesh generation framework, it enables accurate generation of complex geometric models with up to ten thousand faces. The model has breakthrough solutions for core pain points in 3D asset generation, such as poor topology quality, excessive face count, and difficulty in post-editing. It has improved the modeling efficiency of artists by over 70%. The relevant capabilities have been launched on the Tencent Hunyuan 3D AI creation engine and integrated into multiple game pipelines. Traditional
Microsoft launches the Deep Research research tool, which integrates Bing search and OpenAI technology to automate research. The tool uses the core technology o3-deep-research, with a workflow that includes four key steps: first, interacting with GPT-4o/4.1 to clarify user requirements; second, calling Bing to retrieve the latest data; third, performing intelligent analysis and reasoning; finally, generating a structured report containing answers, reasoning process, cited sources, and clarification records. The tool supports integration with Azure AI