Generative AI Boosts Animation Market with Projected Value of 17.7 Billion USD by 2032


On Sep 8, DeepSeek V4.1-Flash interim beta launched: new architecture, native multimodal, stronger, faster, cheaper. Keep base_url unchanged, set model to deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910; billing same as V4-Flash. External feedback not disclosed.....
Microsoft CEO Nadella announced Project Opal for Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI agent in a controlled secure environment that plans and executes complex long-running tasks, extending from quick Q&A to delegated work and long-term automation, running for hours after tasks are assigned.....
Rene Haas, CEO of Arm, stated in a BBC interview that the most disruptive application of AI is in healthcare, with the potential to help humanity conquer cancer within this generation's lifetime and shorten drug development time. However, he emphasized that the industry must first address the issue of insufficient chip capacity to provide sufficient computing power for AI.
Grok Bot upgrade fully integrates with Microsoft accounts, connecting through plugins to Outlook, calendar, and OneDrive, assisting with sending and receiving emails, organizing, creating, modifying, and replying to meeting schedules, and browsing and uploading files to the cloud storage. The underlying connector was released in May, and the main focus of this update is to adapt the connector into a persistent cloud PC plugin called Grok Bot.
DeepSeek Harness lead Cui Tianyi is hiring ~150 roles, citing demand from new directions and systems. Known for small teams and high talent density, this is DeepSeek's second expansion since June. It focuses only on server-side development and Agent elastic computing, unlike the earlier plan to scale all departments.....