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Today’s Summary

DeepSeek V3.1 is live, with context length soaring to 128K and significantly improved reasoning capabilities.
Higgsfield AI introduces Draw-to-Video feature, enabling dynamic video generation from simple drawings.
NVIDIA releases high-efficiency Nemotron Nano 2 model; Xiaohongshu launches controllable facial generation technology.
Tencent open-sources WeChat-YATT training library, while research indicates low ROI for most enterprise AI investments.
Kunlun Wanwei open-sources world model Matrix-Game 2.0; Gemini API adds URL fetching support.

Product & Feature Updates

1. DeepSeek V3.1 stealthily rolled out, boasting a context length that shot up to 128K. This means handling documents with hundreds of thousands of characters or entire codebases is now a breeze! 🎉 The upgrade isn’t just about length; it also boosted reasoning power by 43%, slashed hallucinations by 38%, and improved multilingual support. The only slight bummer is that the highly anticipated R2 model is still playing hard to get. Go hit up their Official Website - (AI News) now and feel the super-long text power!

2. Higgsfield AI’s Draw-to-Video feature is here, so wave goodbye to the headache of complex image-to-video generation workflows! This bad boy lets you ditch those tedious text prompts. Just doodle an arrow or a circle on an image, and the AI instantly gets it, whipping up cinematic dynamic videos. 🤯 This intuitive “point-and-shoot” creation method is absolutely blowing up online, making video creation way more accessible. Go experience the fun here - (AI News) and get your images grooving!

3. Xiaohongshu’s AIGC team has dropped a bombshell, officially launching DynamicFace, a controllable facial generation technology. This tech is designed to tackle the long-standing pain points in image and video face-swapping. Its core highlights? “Controllability” and “high consistency,” aiming to eliminate common flickering and discontinuity issues in video face swaps, giving users a more precise and personalized creation tool. As this (AI News) report points out, this is a significant stride for Xiaohongshu in AI content generation, opening up new possibilities for creative expression.

4. NVIDIA has unleashed Nemotron Nano 2, a chart-topping model that’s literally redefining the boundaries of AI efficiency! 🚀 This multilingual inference powerhouse, with just 9B parameters, is a true compact giant. It rocks a unique Transformer-Mamba hybrid architecture, delivering 6x faster throughput than similar 8B models. Plus, its “thought budget” mechanism slashes costs by a whopping 60%. Wanna dive into the technical details? Check out this (AI News) article ! Or just head straight to the leaderboard (AI News) and witness its sheer power!

5. Gemini API just got a super practical update: it now directly supports content fetching from URLs! This means you can snatch up content from web pages, PDFs, or even image links — you name it, it’s all fair game! 🎣 For developers, this is a total game-changer, letting you skip the hassle and cost of third-party scraping APIs and feed live web content straight to the model. Talk about a massive boost in cost-effectiveness and efficiency! Check out this (AI News) interpretation to see how to master this new feature!

Frontier Research

1. The CoKnow framework, proposed in a latest research (AI News) from arXiv, aims to tackle whether AI models get “blinded by a single leaf” due to fixed mindsets when understanding images. By introducing multi-knowledge representation to optimize prompt learning, CoKnow vastly expands the model’s “horizons”! 💡 Simply put, it stops the model from taking just one path; instead, it offers multiple “knowledge perspectives” to analyze problems, thus outperforming existing methods on 11 public datasets and making model predictions more accurate.

2. The E3RG system, presented in a frontier paper (AI News) , introduces a brand-new multimodal empathetic response generation system. It breaks down the task into a three-part symphony: understanding, memory, and generation. This system doesn’t need extra training to conjure up virtual human images that are packed with emotion and maintain consistent identities, as if they truly possess “empathy”! ❤️ This research snatched the top spot in the ACM MM 25 challenge, paving the way for building more human-like human-computer interactions.

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. MIT research has dropped a truth bomb amidst the AI investment frenzy: a whopping 95% of enterprises have failed to rake in any returns from their AI investments! That’s about $40 billion down the drain! 💸 The report pinpoints the root cause of this “Generative AI divide” not as a lack of talent or resources, but rather AI systems’ general lack of memory and adaptability, preventing deep integration into crucial workflows. As Baoyu’s (AI News) share aptly puts it, successful AI deployment is more about forging deep collaborative relationships than just buying a product.

Open Source TOP Projects

1. Tencent has just dropped a major gift for the multimodal and reinforcement learning domains: officially open-sourcing its large model training library, WeChat-YATT! This bad boy is designed to tackle two core bottlenecks head-on. 🔥 Through an innovative parallel controller mechanism and asynchronous interaction strategy, it effectively crushes the scalability challenges in multimodal training and the efficiency shortcomings under dynamic sampling, significantly boosting GPU utilization. If you’re curious about the details of this open-source powerhouse (AI News) , definitely dive into the official release!

2. Kunlun Wanwei’s open-source world model, Matrix-Game 2.0, has burst onto the scene, stirring up a buzz in the community—and guess what, Google’s Genie 3 is still closed-source! This gem of a model, with just 1.8B parameters, can crank out interactive virtual worlds in real-time at 25FPS on a single GPU. Just upload an image, and you can freely explore inside! 🤩 This open-source masterpiece from Kunlun Wanwei, with its astonishing lightweight design and high performance, unlocks endless possibilities for game development and agent training. Go check out its GitHub Homepage - (AI News) and see for yourself!

3. BillionMail, a GitHub ⭐8.9k Star (AI News) project , is your one-stop open-source solution to break free from the monthly fee “hostage situation” with commercial email service providers! This project bundles an email server, newsletter, and email marketing all into one sweet package. It’s fully self-hostable and super developer-friendly, letting you take control of your email system with zero monthly fees and achieve true digital independence. 🚀

4. SPlayer, boasting ⭐4.7k Stars on GitHub (AI News) , is absolutely worth checking out if you’re a music lover who craves ultimate minimalism. This player doesn’t just have a super clean interface; it also packs powerful features like lyric-by-lyric display, song downloads, and music cloud storage management. Plus, it even rocks a cool music spectrum visualization! It’s truly simple, yet far from basic. 🎶 It perfectly illustrates how a complete music world can fit into a compact package.

5. GhostTrack, a GitHub (AI News) project with ⭐1.9k stars, offers a handy tool for tech enthusiasts curious about digital footprints, allowing them to track locations or phone numbers. It’s like a detective tool for the digital world, and while it’s super versatile, it also gives us a crucial heads-up: we gotta stay mindful of privacy and ethics as we push technological boundaries. 🤔

6. bytebot, a GitHub (AI News) project with ⭐1.9k stars, is a self-hosted AI desktop agent that lets your computer have its own AI butler! It can automate computer tasks using natural language commands. Running in a secure containerized Linux environment, it lets you complete complex operations just by speaking, truly bringing that “speak and it shall be done” smart lifestyle to life! 🔥

Social Media Shares

1. Andrew Ng has dropped a free career guidance e-book (AI News) that’s like a secret weapon tailored for AI job seekers! It turns out, getting into AI isn’t just about code and math; soft skills are key too! 💡 The book covers everything from resume building and interview techniques to even tackling “imposter syndrome,” helping you map out a clear career path and land that dream job.

2. A Reddit user has dropped a bombshell question, asking if longer prompts are always better in AI painting. 🤔 They’ve found that their own short prompts, just twenty or thirty words, yield results almost identical to others’ hundreds-of-words-long epics, and sometimes the model even ignores most of the details! This trending post - (AI News) delves into the actual meaning of “long prompts,” suggesting that sometimes, brevity might just be the shortcut to great art.

3. DeepSeek V3.1’s frontend code capabilities seem to be quietly raking in the big bucks again! Users are thrilled to discover that a complex prompt that used to stump them is now effortlessly handled by the new model, and without those pesky font size issues seen in other models. ✨ This social media (AI News) discovery once again confirms that the officially announced 128k context upgrade isn’t just talk—it’s backed by real performance improvements.

4. User Li Jigang has shared a wonderfully poetic “Visual Weaving Prompt,” proving that prompt engineering can totally be an art form! 🎨 This prompt uses aesthetic metaphors like light, tension, and flow to guide the AI in transforming podcast links into visually stunning, design-rich cards. This advanced (AI News) play of infusing design philosophy into prompts showcases a whole new level of communication with AI—it’s truly a dance of inspiration between humans and machines!

5. Qianwen’s latest open-source image editing model has faced off against FLUX Kontext, and the results are in! According to a blogger’s (AI News) review , Qianwen’s model’s biggest highlight is its unique Chinese generation and editing capabilities. However, when it comes to image aesthetics and detail processing, it falls slightly short of FLUX, with a more noticeable “AI feel.” Overall, it’s a new powerhouse for Chinese content creation, but to achieve top-tier results, it might need some “dragon-eye-dotting” magic from community LoRA models. ✨

6. OpenAI is making top-tier AI more accessible than ever, with its ChatGPT Go plan launching first in India for a mere ~4.55 USD per month! 🇮🇳 According to Greg Brockman’s (AI News) share , this plan offers 10 times more messages and image generation than the free version, plus better memory. This move is hailed as a significant step towards AI democratization, letting more people enjoy the convenience of powerful AI tools brought.

7. Google Gemini’s Storybook feature makes creating a unique storybook with your kids simple and fun! Want to cook up a one-of-a-kind tale? 📚 As this (AI News) tutorial shares, you can upload photos for inspiration and even pick art styles like comic or claymation. This isn’t just an AI tool; it’s an interactive platform that sparks family creativity and helps you capture heartwarming memories.

AI Product Self-Promotion: AIClient2API ↗️

‘AIClient-2-API’ is your ultimate solution if you’re sick of juggling various AI models and getting handcuffed by pesky API rate limits! 🎉 It’s not just your average API proxy; it’s a magic box that can “turn lead into gold,” transforming tools like Gemini CLI and Kiro client into powerful OpenAI-compatible APIs.

The core charm of this project lies in its “reverse thinking” and powerful features:

✨ Client-to-API transformation unlocks new possibilities! We’ve cleverly leveraged Gemini CLI’s OAuth login, letting you easily break through the rate and quota limits of official free APIs. Even more excitingly, by encapsulating Kiro client interfaces, we’ve successfully “cracked” its API, allowing you to seamlessly call the powerful Claude model for free! This offers you an “economical and practical solution for programming development using free Claude API plus Claude Code.”

🔧 System Prompt management is now in your hands! Want to make your AI more obedient? We’ve got you covered with powerful system prompt management features. You can easily extract, replace (‘overwrite’), or append (‘append’) system prompts in any request, fine-tuning the AI’s behavior server-side without tweaking client code.

💡 Top-tier experience at a budget cost! Imagine using Kilo code assistant in your editor, coupled with Cursor’s efficient prompts, and then pairing it with any top-tier large model—why even stick to Cursor when you have this? This project lets you combine elements to create a development experience rivaling paid tools, all at an incredibly low cost. Plus, it supports MCP protocol and multimodal inputs like images and documents, so your creativity knows no bounds.

Say goodbye to cumbersome configurations and hefty bills, and embrace this new AI development paradigm—free, powerful, and flexible, all rolled into one!

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