Zhipu AI Open-Source Visual Language Model CogAgent Supports GUI Graphic Interface Q&A


Tokyo startup InfiniMind secures $5.8 million in seed funding, founded by a former Google employee, dedicated to developing AI infrastructure that transforms massive unused video and audio dark data into searchable structured business intelligence to address enterprise data processing challenges.
The open-source AI platform Hugging Face has refused a $5 billion investment from NVIDIA, drawing industry attention. As a globally active AI model library, this move is not due to financial sufficiency, as it has previously received investments from giants like NVIDIA.
The Stepwise Star open-source multimodal vision-language model Step3-VL-10B excels in multiple benchmark tests with only 10B parameters, solving the problem of insufficient intelligence in small models. The model achieves the best performance in its scale in visual perception, logical reasoning, and math competitions, even surpassing open-source and closed-source flagship models that are 10 to 20 times larger in size.
Musk announced that the new algorithm of the X platform will be open-sourced next week, including core code for content recommendation and ad delivery. This move aims to improve transparency and respond to public concerns about social media content distribution mechanisms. The X platform's open-source code had not been updated for three years prior to this.
The Meta's Llama 4 project was exposed as a 'data embellishment' scandal, with the former chief scientist, Yan Lequin, admitting that the team adjusted data to optimize benchmark test results. This behavior has sparked controversy, revealing management deviations in Meta's AI technology development. Previously, the Llama series was highly regarded for its open-source strategy, but this incident may impact its reputation.