Author: Advanced AI Editor

Google’s Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month. But in India, it has taken on a creative life of its own, with retro portraits and local trends going viral — even as privacy and safety concerns begin to emerge. India has emerged as the No. 1 country in terms of Nano Banana usage, according to David Sharon, multimodal generation lead for Gemini Apps at Google DeepMind, who spoke at a media session this week. The model’s popularity has also propelled the Gemini app to…

In the wave of intelligence in the automotive industry, the SAIC Roewe M7 DMH model, jointly launched with Volcano Engine, officially debuts with the world’s first intelligent cockpit system featuring the Doubao deep thinking large model, marking the beginning of a new era in human-vehicle interaction. This new energy family sedan, priced from 85,800 yuan, redefines the interaction logic and scene adaptability of smart cars through deep integration of AI technology. As a core innovation, the Doubao large model endows the Roewe M7 DMH with groundbreaking semantic understanding capabilities. This system transcends the limitations of traditional command-based interactions, accurately parsing…

OpenAI and Google LLC today disclosed that their latest reasoning models achieved gold-level performance in a recent coding competition. The ICPC, as the event is called, is the world’s most prestigious college-level programming contest. It draws participants from about 3,000 universities. OpenAI says its reasoning models achieved a perfect score, while Google’s algorithm solved 10 of the 12 problems in this year’s contest. The ICPC finals took place on Sept. 4. The 139 participating teams had five hours to solve the dozen questions that the contest’s organizers included in the test. Had the AI-generated submissions from OpenAI and Google been…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in London, standing in front of a room full of journalists, outing himself as a huge fan of Gemini’s Nano Banana. “How could anyone not love Nano Banana? I mean Nano Banana, how good is that? Tell me it’s not true!” He addresses the room. No one responds. “Tell me it’s not true! It’s so good. I was just talking to Demis [Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind] yesterday and I said ‘How about that Nano Banana! How good is that?’”It looks like lots of people agree with him: The popularity of the Nano Banana AI image…

AI chip startup Groq confirmed Wednesday that it raised a fresh $750 million in funding at a post-money valuation of $6.9 billion.   This topped the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that Groq was raising. At that time, reports suggested that the raise would be about $600 million, at near a $6 billion valuation.  Groq, which also sells data center computing power, previously raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this more than double the valuation in about a year. Groq has now raised over $3 billion to date, PitchBook estimates. Groq has been a…

Beijing (Gasgoo)- On Sept. 17, SAIC Motor’s Roewe brand put the M7 DMH, a mid-to-large new energy sedan equipped with the latest DMH 6.0 hybrid system, onto the market. The model is available in three trim levels, each offering a CLTC-rated 160-km all-electric range and a combined range of 2,050 km. Prices range from 97,800 yuan to 114,800 yuan, with a limited-time offer until Oct. 31 lowering entry prices to 85,800 yuan–102,800 yuan.Positioned as a versatile family car, the M7 DMH debuts ByteDance’s Doubao large language model with deep thinking mode, designed to redefine in-car interaction. The system improves semantic…

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user’s parents are unreachable, the system may contact the authorities.In a blog post about the announcement, CEO Sam Altman wrote…

Meta on Wednesday unveiled a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses with a built-in display for apps, alerts, and directions on the right lens. The smart glasses are controlled by a wristband that picks up on subtle hand gestures, called Meta Neural Band, the same one it unveiled at last year’s Connect as part of its Orion demo. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new product, called Meta Ray-Ban Display, onstage at the company’s annual developer conference, Meta Connect 2025. Unlike Orion, Zuckerberg says this is a product that people can buy in a couple of weeks, starting September 30,…

IBM has released Granite-Docling-258M, an open-source (Apache-2.0) vision-language model designed specifically for end-to-end document conversion. The model targets layout-faithful extraction—tables, code, equations, lists, captions, and reading order—emitting a structured, machine-readable representation rather than lossy Markdown. It is available on Hugging Face with a live demo and MLX build for Apple Silicon. What’s new compared to SmolDocling? Granite-Docling is the product-ready successor to SmolDocling-256M. IBM replaced the earlier backbone with a Granite 165M language model and upgraded the vision encoder to SigLIP2 (base, patch16-512) while retaining the Idefics3-style connector (pixel-shuffle projector). The resulting model has 258M parameters and shows consistent accuracy…

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