Alibaba International Launches AI Business Assistant


MiniMax's first lock-up shares expire in July 2026. Strategic investors Alibaba and MiHoYo pledge not to sell. The founding team voluntarily locked shares for 12 months, exceeding the 6-month industry norm. The unlocking excludes founder and employee shares, sending an early stability signal to ease market concerns over short-term float.....
Alibaba launched HappyHorse1.1, a video generation model enhancing dynamic expressiveness, subject consistency, instruction following, visual quality, and audio capability. It offers smoother, more natural movements and stable subjects, with a major performance boost over v1.0.....
WeChat's new native AI assistant, 'Xiaowei', has started a phased internal test. The interface features a dialog window accessible through an icon in the top-left corner. It supports text or voice commands to directly control WeChat's native functions and launch mini programs, such as sending messages on behalf of friends, marking a low-key attempt by WeChat to deeply integrate AI capabilities.
Alibaba's ATH-Token Foundry and Renmin University's Gaoling School of AI open-source LOGOS, a science foundation model. Using unified scientific grammar and pure sequence modeling, it matches or surpasses specialized methods on six tasks. LOGOS-1B with 1B parameters outperforms Microsoft's 8×7B model, showing extreme efficiency.....
Meta previewed major upgrades to its short-video editing app Edits at a Los Angeles creator event, introducing an AI assistant and desktop version. Targeting ByteDance's CapCut, it aims to deeply integrate with Instagram's content ecosystem through full-platform coverage and smart creation. The AI assistant analyzes key metrics like video views to optimize content strategies and attract new users.....