OPPO Releases ColorOS 14 with AI Assistant Xiaobu Integrated with AndesGPT Large Model


On Aug 23, Oak Deer Robotics launched CookingMuse, the world's first multimodal cooking AI foundation model trained on real kitchen data, shifting cooking AI from command execution to deep understanding and real-world use. It also unveiled a 3K vision AI stir-fry robot and embodied cooking robot, covering the full cooking process.....
Xpeng Robotics raised over $900M in its first round, reaching a $6.3B valuation, a record for China's embodied AI private funding. Led by IDG Capital, with Gaorong Ventures, Tencent and Alibaba; Xpeng Group stays controlling. Investors rank it among the largest embodied AI deals.....
U.S. legal AI unicorn Harvey announced the launch of the legal-specific model Harvey Tenet by post-training based on Moonshot's open-weight model Kimi K3. This marks the first time a Chinese open-weight model has entered the training system of a leading U.S. vertical AI company. Harvey previously mainly relied on closed-source models such as OpenAI and Anthropic, serving over 2,400 organizations and 200,000 lawyers. It has a valuation of $11 billion and an annualized revenue of about $350 million.
On August 24, ByteDance integrated its AI office products: the TRAE and Kousi teams were incorporated into the Doubao system. TRAE Work and Kousi will be integrated with Doubao's work scenario capabilities; TRAE IDE and CLI will remain as programming product lines under Doubao. After the adjustment, the relevant products and operations teams will report to Zhao Qi, the product head of Doubao.
The South Korean National Assembly passed an amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act, allowing AI developers to use personal data within a limited scope after review by the Personal Information Protection Committee, breaking the previous rigid requirement that data be used for AI development only with individual consent. This move addresses long-standing industry complaints, as exemptions were previously limited to a few scenarios such as voice fraud prevention and autonomous driving, with short durations. The new regulations expand the available data space for AI development.