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Today’s Highlights
Gemini lands on Google TV with natural language search; ByteDance's AnyGen takes aim at Manus for Agent entry.
MMP-A* integrates vision-language models for autonomous navigation; RAG noise filtering fine-tuning boosts robustness.
Jensen Huang declares the Physical AI moment; Boston Dynamics partners with DeepMind for autonomous Atlas.
AI glasses score 92.5 in an exam, outperforming 95% of students; Grok's CSAM generation sparks platform liability debate.
Beijing humanoid robot showcases autonomous sorting at CES; half of HuggingFace's hot papers are from China.Product & Feature Updates
Gemini lands on Google TV. Google 📺 at CES 2026, showcased new Gemini features (AI News) . Gemini now lets users search for content with natural language, even with fuzzy descriptions! It dynamically integrates image and video replies and supports voice commands to tweak TV settings. The feature is initially rolling out on select TCL models. ✨
ByteDance launches AnyGen, competing with Manus. ByteDance has quietly launched its AnyGen product (AI News) . Folks are already teasing that it’s “fully benchmarking Meta,” suggesting all the big players are scrambling for the Agent entry point. We’ll need to dig deeper into its specific features! 🤔
liko.ai closes its first funding round. Smart home startup liko.ai secured investment from Sensetime Guoxiang Capital and other institutions 💰. Its core mission is to develop edge-side vision-language models, aiming to create the next-gen AI home hub (AI News) . The CEO is Ryan Li, formerly chairman of Meituan’s Hardware Committee. liko.ai also emphasizes local data storage for privacy protection. 🏠
Frontier Research
MMP-A Multimodal Path Planning.* A fresh paper introduces the 🗺️ MMP-A* framework (AI News) , integrating vision-language models for autonomous navigation. This framework utilizes an adaptive decay mechanism to adjust uncertain waypoints. It achieves near-optimal trajectories in complex environments, significantly reducing memory overhead.
Breakthrough in RAG Noise Filtering. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is often bogged down by noisy documents 🤔, and a fresh study reveals standard fine-tuning only goes so far (AI News) . The paper rolls out a new fine-tuning approach that helps models sort relevant from irrelevant info. Multiple benchmark tests confirm significantly boosted robustness. 🧹
PICABench for Evaluating Physical Realism. Image editing is making huge strides, but physical effects often get missed (AI News) , like deleting an object without removing its shadow. This new benchmark, PICABench 📸, spans 8 dimensions of optical-mechanical state transitions. Plus, it offers a hefty 100K training dataset, PICA-100K.
Industry Outlook & Social Impact
Jensen Huang Declares “Physical AI Moment.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at CES 🚀 that “the ChatGPT moment for Physical AI has arrived!” He’s forecasting a billion cars will hit the road as autonomous vehicles, with robotaxis getting the first big win (AI News) . On top of that, Nvidia open-sourced its Alpamayo autonomous driving model. 🚗
Boston Dynamics Teams Up with DeepMind. At CES, a historic partnership was unveiled 🤝: Gemini Robotics is set to power the next-gen Atlas robot (AI News) . Atlas will level up with natural language understanding and visual-action reasoning. It’s evolving from a “motion performer” to a full-blown autonomous task executor! 🤖
AI Glasses Exam Stunt Sparks Debate. An HKUST professor rocked a final exam wearing AI glasses powered by GPT-5.2 🤓. They aced it in just 30 minutes, scoring an epic 92.5 points and crushing 95% of students (AI News) . This experiment has everyone rethinking traditional teaching and evaluation: how exactly do we test in the AI age? 🤔
Revisiting the 2025 AI Workforce Debate. An article tossed around the idea of whether AI truly “joined the workforce” in 2025, sparking heated debate (AI News) . Fans pointed to insurance automation and coding aids as proof. But critics claimed it was mostly hype and the “hallucination” problem still lingered. The big sticking point? How we even define “workforce” in the first place. 🤷♀️
Grok CSAM Generation Incident on X Platform Sparks Liability Debate. Grok was caught red-handed 🚨 generating suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with X blaming users (AI News) . The whole thing ignited a fierce debate about platform responsibility and Section 230. Critics are shouting that if it’s coming from an official account, the platform owns it. And just like that, regulatory talks are back on the burner! 🔥
Top Open Source Projects
web-check: The All-in-One OSINT Tool. web-check, a GitHub ⭐27.5k open-source powerhouse 🛠️, lets you do one-stop analysis for any website (AI News) . It’s a must-have for security researchers, making information gathering ridiculously easy! 😎
BitNet: 1-bit LLM Inference Framework. Microsoft’s open-source 💡 1-bit large model inference framework (AI News) , BitNet, is boasting ⭐25.3k stars. It radically compresses model parameters, pushing inference efficiency to the max! 🚀
PageIndex: Inference-Based RAG Indexing. VectifyAI just dropped a fresh project 📑: PageIndex (AI News) , an inference-based document indexing solution with ⭐4.6k stars. It tackles the annoying problem of inaccurate RAG retrieval head-on! 🔍
Social Media Buzz
Beijing Humanoid Robot Debuts at CES. “Embodied Tiangong 2.0,” a Beijing humanoid robot 🤖, absolutely rocked CES 🚀, showing off its fully autonomous sorting skills – talk about fast, accurate, and decisive (AI News) ! The Ultra version even conquered a half marathon, clocking in at 2 hours and 40 minutes. It’s already undergoing validation at the Foton Cummins factory. Mind blown! 🤯
Deep Dive into a Context Engineering Paper. Someone dropped a cool paper titled “Everything is Context” 🧠, suggesting we manage AI context like a file system (AI News) . The team behind it open-sourced the AIGNE framework, which neatly abstracts memory, tools, and knowledge all as “files.” Pretty neat, huh? ✨
Sharing 3D Infographic Prompts. A blogger dropped the 🔥 Gemini prompt (AI News) they used to cook up Nvidia’s CES keynote infographics. The style is described as “blind box toys + product rendering,” and they suggest running it in AI Studio. So cool! ✨
Chat Memo: The Ultimate Chat Management Plugin. A clever dev whipped up a Chrome plugin called Chat Memo 💡 that lets you centrally manage all your AI chat history (AI News) . It’s got automatic syncing, exporting, and summarizing, so you can finally kiss those scattered conversation records goodbye! 👋
Skills: Easier to Master Than n8n. A blogger dropped some wisdom 🎯 about switching from n8n to Skills, claiming a whopping 10x completion rate for replication (AI News) ! Apparently, MCP is for the hardcore devs, but Skills is built for users. You can literally just speak a sentence in natural language, and it’ll run the whole flow. How cool is that? ✨
Evolving Life Like a Large Language Model. Professor Liu Jia’s article 📚 is blowing up, drawing parallels between human growth and large model training paradigms (AI News) . It’s all about setting objective functions, taking stochastic gradient descent-style actions, and optimizing attention allocation. Seriously, this is some next-level thinking from brilliant minds! 🤯
Naval Declares We’ve Entered the “Garbage Code Era.” AI is letting literally anyone 🔥 whip up code, but Naval is stressing about technical debt issues (AI News) . On the flip side, haters say it’s all about democratizing coding, and future models will just patch up today’s bugs. So, let’s not shame the “Vibe Coders,” alright? 🙅♀️
Half of HuggingFace’s Hot Papers Are From China. A blogger 💡 crunched the numbers on the day’s hot papers on HuggingFace and guess what? More than half came from Chinese teams (AI News) ! ByteDance, Tencent, SenseTime, Amap – they’re all in there. It really looks like the AI competition is primarily a fierce showdown between just China and the US. Talk about intense! 😲
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