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AI News Daily 2026/2/15

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Today’s Highlights

ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 and Seedance video model
Tongyi Qianwen teams up with Damai and Fliggy to launch AI consumption
China's first AIGC animated film "Tuan Yuan Ling" set for release
MiniMax open-sources M2.5 model, strong competitor to closed-source models
Chrome introduces WebMCP protocol to standardize Agent interaction

Product & Feature Updates

1. ByteDance’s full-modal large model has dropped a bombshell with its release! 🔥 They just launched Doubao 2.0 and the Seedance Video Model (AI News) in one go. The new video generation rocks with 15-second ⏱️ high-dynamic footage, and the physics simulations are mind-blowing! 🤯 The Pro model is even going head-to-head with GPT-5.2 in math and code. 🚀 Plus, the Seedream 5.0 image model 🎨 now features real-time retrieval. This whole suite update is clearly designed to totally dominate the Chinese New Year market! ⚔️

2. Tongyi Qianwen is stepping up its Chinese New Year freebie game! 💰 Alibaba’s Qianwen is throwing down with freebie cards, linking up with Damai and Fliggy (AI News) to create fresh AI-powered shopping experiences. Now, users can snag movie tickets and plane tickets just by using their voice! 🗣️ Everyone can grab 🎫 10 freebie cards during the event. Daily active users have hit a new record, showing the biggest app growth in years! 📈 Google’s Gemini is hot on its heels, also jumping into the shopping feature arena. 🛒

3. China’s first-ever AIGC animated film, “Tuan Yuan Ling,” now has its release date! 🎬 It’s slated to hit theaters on February 28 (AI News) . The production cycle? It got slashed from three years ⚡ to a mere six months! The film leverages AI ✨ for full-pipeline generation of characters and scenes. The production team even managed to tackle pesky issues like stiff micro-expressions! 🤯 This is a prime example of new quality productive forces shaking things up in the cultural sector. 🎞️

4. Google Chrome has unveiled its WebMCP protocol! 🛠️ The Chrome team dropped the WebMCP Preview (AI News) , a standard protocol for websites to chat with AI Agents. This bad boy lets websites proactively expose 👀 structured tool interfaces. No more Agents awkwardly 🤖 guessing DOM operations! This is gonna seriously boost the reliability of automated tasks. 🌐

Cutting-Edge Research

1. Tencent Hunyuan has open-sourced its GradLoc tool! 🧪 The Tencent research team publicly shared the GradLoc Technology (AI News) . This nifty tool can pinpoint 🎯 exactly which tokens cause training crashes. It tackles the pesky gradient spike problem 📉 in RLVR training, turning model tuning from a mysterious art 🔮 back into a scientific diagnosis. Better infrastructure is totally gonna speed up algorithm iterations! 🚀

2. The VLA model GigaBrain is now crushing it by combining with world models! This new model significantly boosts robot capabilities, thanks to World Model RL (AI News) . It’s showing a 30% improvement in tasks like doing laundry and folding clothes! 👕 By using online video data 🌐 for pre-training spatio-temporal reasoning, it’s finally overcoming the traditional models’ struggle 🧠 to understand the future. Live demos are already showcasing its reliable long-range execution. 🤖

3. The autonomous driving multimodal large model SToRM is all about efficient end-to-end driving (AI News) ! 🚗 This new framework uses a lightweight predictor ⚖️ to filter visual tokens. It maintains performance while slashing computation by 30 times! ⚡ Plus, it grabs supervisory signals using auxiliary paths 🔗. This totally solves the headache of limited on-board computing resources! 💾

4. HyPO is here to optimize DPO preference alignment! 🔧 This new method aims to fix the training mismatch (AI News) in DPO. It specifically debiases pessimistic samples 🚫 conditionally, stopping the model from getting satisfied too early 🛑 at the wrong times. And get this: you can integrate it with just a single line of code! 💻 This has seriously jacked up the paired win rate and alignment. ⚖️

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. Ars Technica, the well-known media outlet, just pulled an article because of AI-fabricated quotes (AI News) ! 🤦 The article had faked statements from a Matplotlib maintainer. 👴 This whole mess has really sparked a trust crisis regarding the authenticity of news. ☣️ Critics are pointing fingers, claiming commercialization 💸 is leading to a dip in editorial quality. This is a classic example of media outlets dropping the ball 📉 in the race of the AI era.

2. Hacker News is buzzing about why people aren’t freaking out about AI taking over jobs! 💼 They’re diving into the complex impact of AI on the job market (AI News) . The convo highlights that task transfer doesn’t necessarily mean 🚫 job disappearance. The big scary thing? Management’s motive to cut costs 📉 is the primary risk. Memory and collaboration are still major technical roadblocks. 🚧 However, seasoned pros might actually benefit from 🙆‍♂️ human-AI collaboration.

3. OpenAI is spilling the tea on real-world Agent engineering! 🧠 The OpenAI team shared an internal Agent development handbook (AI News) . Engineers are morphing into 🏗️ environment designers instead of just coders. They’re boosting Agent execution power through architectural constraints. 📏 And for knowledge management, they’re rocking a 📚 progressive disclosure strategy. The big takeaway: keep humans at the helm ⚓ and let Agents do the heavy lifting!
   
   

4. SenseTime’s SenseCore, its powerful AI infrastructure, just nailed a supply chain security certification! ☁️ It passed a national-level security assessment (AI News) , earning an excellent rating for software supply chain 🛡️ security. They’ve built a full lifecycle 🔄 risk management system, which basically means their computing foundation 🧱 is now industry-leading in terms of security. This is a huge step in helping the industry build reliable AI infrastructure! 🏭

Top Open Source Projects

1. This is a UI generation SDK 🧱 specially designed for React, checking in with ⭐9.4k stars. UI Generation SDK (AI News)
2. Synkra’s AI orchestration system 🧠 has its core framework (AI News) out, boasting ⭐0.5k stars.
3. This AI collaboration partner (AI News) comes with 💾 long-term memory capabilities and ⭐5.6k stars.
4. This platform helps you build non-structured 📂 document processing pipeline platforms (AI News) with no code LLM, rocking ⭐6.1k stars.

Social Media Shares

1. Vercel has open-sourced a component for rendering JSON 🧩 directly in chats! Check out the rendering JSON (AI News) component.
   
   

2. A blogger has broken down how ByteDance 📊 has built a perfect business closed loop (AI News) , raking in cash from both tools and ad revenue.

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