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DAMO Academy: AI agents discover four new superconducting materials, which have been experimentally verified.
According to Mars Finance, Alibaba's DAMO Academy, in collaboration with Renmin University of China and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, released its first AI-powered superconducting material discovery tool, Elements Claw, on July 3rd. Elements Claw predicts 68,000 possible superconducting materials, including four novel materials that have been synthesized and confirmed to possess superconductivity. All related data is now publicly available. (Cailian Press)
Morphi, a company specializing in embodied intelligence, has completed a series of angel round financing rounds exceeding 1 billion yuan.
Mars Finance reported on July 7th that Morphi, a holographic intelligence company, officially announced the completion of its angel round of financing, exceeding 1 billion yuan. This round was jointly invested by Alibaba and Tencent, with participation from over ten leading institutions including Guanghe Venture Capital. Following the financing, the company's valuation surpassed 7 billion yuan, setting a record for the largest publicly disclosed first-round financing in the domestic holographic intelligence sector. (Venture Capitalist CLUB)
Liaoning: Expanding the application scenarios of "artificial intelligence + ocean" and exploring the application of quantum technology in the field of marine science and technology.
Mars Finance reported on July 2nd that the Liaoning Provincial People's Government recently issued the "Liaoning Province's 15th Five-Year Plan for Marine Economic Development." The plan proposes accelerating digital and intelligent transformation. It emphasizes strengthening the construction of a "digital ocean," systematically deploying marine digital infrastructure, enhancing the aggregation, integration, and standardized processing of data resources from marine observation and monitoring, satellite remote sensing, and drone aerial photography, and building an integrated air-space-ground-sea marine information collection and transmission network. The plan also promotes the construction of the Northern Marine Data Application Engineering Center, establishes a large-scale model of the Yellow and Bohai Seas and a comprehensive application service platform for marine big data, and strengthens the secure utilization of marine data elements. Furthermore, it aims to deepen the integration and application of next-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, and the Internet of Things in the marine field, expand "artificial intelligence + ocean" application scenarios, and explore the application of quantum technology in marine science and technology. (Liaoning Release)
xAI releases Voice Agent Builder, a voice intelligence platform: enabling the creation of human-like voice agents without coding.
BlockBeats reported on July 1st that xAI launched its new product, Voice Agent Builder. This no-code platform, based on Grok Voice, allows developers and operators to quickly build human-like conversational voice agents. It is now available for use, priced at $0.05 per minute. This tool targets users who want to directly deploy production-grade voice AI applications, lowering the technical barrier to building a voice system from scratch. The official statement indicates that the platform integrates complete capabilities including telephone system access, knowledge retrieval, tool invocation, content security control, and observability. It also supports integration with existing phone numbers, APIs, and MCPs from external systems. Compared to traditional voice technologies that require separate calls to speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech services, leading to increased latency and costs, Voice Agent Builder achieves a unified voice processing workflow through deep coupling with the Grok model, reducing latency, minimizing points of failure, and improving overall performance. Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI hotspots and news.
Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China
Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.
The National Development and Reform Commission disclosed five key work plans for the artificial intelligence industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, emphasizing the strengthening of key technologies such as models, computing power, and data.
According to Mars Finance, at a press conference held by the Shanghai Municipal Government on July 7, Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Innovation and High-Tech Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, disclosed the working plan for my country's artificial intelligence industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period: First, accelerate independent innovation. Strengthen research on key technologies such as models, computing power, and data; increase basic research; generate more original achievements; and contribute Chinese wisdom to the global development of artificial intelligence. Second, strengthen application-driven development. Focus on areas with significant economic contributions, high strategic value, and good social benefits; open up a number of high-value scenarios; and create a number of benchmark applications. At the same time, pay attention to the impact of artificial intelligence on employment, promote the creation of new jobs and empowerment of traditional jobs through artificial intelligence, and prioritize its application in "dangerous, dirty, tiring, and heavy" scenarios. Third, deepen ecological collaboration. Continuously promote deep adaptation of software and hardware, common prosperity of open and closed sources, integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and differentiated regional development to significantly improve the efficiency of ecological collaboration. Fourth, adhere to openness and win-win cooperation. Extensively carry out international cooperation in artificial intelligence, promote open-source and inclusive technology, support the Global South in strengthening artificial intelligence capacity building, and actively participate in international governance in the field of artificial intelligence. Fifth, ensure safety and controllability. We must coordinate development and security, accelerate legislation in the field of artificial intelligence, improve the system of rules and regulations, prevent risks such as data misuse, deepfakes, and privacy breaches, and ensure that the development of artificial intelligence is for human use and under human control. (Cailian Press)