Apple's AI/ML Team Partners with Columbia University to Successfully Overcome Google's CAPTCHAs


Video conferencing giant Zoom set a world record in a top AI benchmark test, achieving 48.1% and surpassing giants like Google. The key to its success lies in adopting a federated AI approach rather than directly training the underlying model.
The AI company Articul8, incubated by Intel, quickly rose after its establishment in early 2024. Recently, it announced that the $700 million Series B financing has completed half of the target, with a pre-money valuation of $500 million, which is five times higher than the $100 million valuation after the Series A round. The round was led by Adara Ventures, with follow-on investments from Aditya Birla Ventures and others, highlighting the market's preference for vertical-specific, controllable, and audit-friendly enterprise-level AI solutions.
Zhixuan Robotics has reached a strategic cooperation with MiniMax, which will provide end-to-end text-to-speech technology for its humanoid robots, enhancing the robots' natural interaction and emotional expression capabilities in real-world scenarios. The collaboration focuses on speech synthesis, utilizing high-naturalness speech generation, multi-emotion intonation modeling, and other technologies to create "speaking" intelligent agents.
Mingsheng Intelligent has completed a funding round worth billions of yuan, with investors including Jingguorui and Guoke Investment. The funds will be primarily invested in the research and development of efficient large models for edge-side applications, to strengthen its technological advantage in the terminal intelligence market. As a pioneer in the field of edge-side AI in China, the company has established a complete system from theory to full-scenario products.
Anhui released the proposal for the "14th Five-Year Plan", emphasizing economic upgrading driven by technological innovation, with a focus on promoting the construction of Digital Anhui. It will build a high-level national data element comprehensive pilot zone, innovate the development and utilization model of data resources, create a national integrated data market hub, and promote the development of the real economy.