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AI News Daily 2026/2/17

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Today’s Digest

Ali Qwen 3.5 open-sourced, nearly 400 billion parameters, surpasses Gemini 3
ByteDance Seed 2.0 tops Arena multimodal, surpasses GPT-5.2
Magic Atom Robot appears on Spring Festival Gala, showcasing embodied AI's strength
OpenClaw author joins OpenAI, betting on agent track
WiFi signals penetrate walls for real-time imaging, no vision needed, privacy-friendly

1. Ali Qwen 3.5 Model: Alibaba just dropped its most powerful open-source model (AI News) on Chinese New Year’s Eve, packing a whopping 397 billion parameters! 🤯 It completely blows Gemini 3 out of the water. With API prices as low as 0.8 yuan per million tokens, its visual capabilities got a massive boost. For local deployment, it slashes VRAM usage by 60% and speeds up inference by 19x. Talk about a game-changer – this awesome move 🚀 is truly making top-tier AI accessible to everyone!

2. ByteDance Seed 2.0: ByteDance’s big model, Seed 2.0 (AI News) , is making waves! 🚀 It debuted at sixth place on the Arena text leaderboard and snagged an impressive third in the visual arena. Its mathematical reasoning has seen a huge leap, with multiple metrics now surpassing GPT-5.2. This makes it the highest-ranked native multimodal model from China right now.

Cutting-Edge Research

1. Efficient Classification Framework for Disaster Tweets: Disaster relief efforts desperately need better information classification (AI News) . Turns out, a fine-tuned Llama 3.1 performs exceptionally well here. Using LoRA technology, you only need to train 2% of parameters, yet accuracy skyrockets by nearly 40%! 📈 Plus, QLoRA deployment can save half the memory. Interestingly, the research found that RAG might actually lower accuracy in this context.

2. Visual Robustness Benchmark for Autonomous Driving: Autonomous driving systems 🚗 really struggle with visual interference (AI News) . A new benchmark, NavDream, tackles this by isolating appearance variations. It leverages DINOv3 to extract appearance-invariant features. The cool part? No fine-tuning needed to adapt to harsh weather conditions, solving that tricky disconnect between perception and planning! ⚡ Basically, it helps AI drivers stay steady even when it’s pouring rain.

3. Multimodal Data Collection for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Surgical robots 🏥 are often starved for multimodal data (AI News) . Enter the MiDAS system, which nails non-invasive data collection. It simultaneously records video and kinematic data and has even open-sourced a hernia repair dataset. 🤝 This system supports cross-platform data acquisition and is a huge boost for surgical action recognition research. 👀

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. Magic Atom Robots Debut at Spring Festival Gala: The Magic Atom Robots 🤖 stole the show on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala (AI News) ! Six MagicBots danced perfectly in sync with celebrities, not a single misstep. ✨ This performance truly highlighted the hardcore strength of “Made in China” tech, signaling that embodied AI 🚀 is heading towards large-scale deployment. It wasn’t just a show; it was an intense stress test!

2. OpenClaw Author Joins OpenAI: The brilliant mind behind the viral OpenClaw 🦀 project is joining OpenAI (AI News) to lead their next-gen personal agents! The OpenClaw project itself is transitioning to an independent foundation. 🛡️ This move shows Altman is seriously betting on the agent space, suggesting AI is shifting from just chatting to actually getting stuff done for you. 🛠️ It’s a clear signal that the industry is entering its execution phase.

Open Source TOP Projects

1. zvec: Ultrafast In-Process Vector Database: This thing is a lightning-fast ⚡ in-process vector library (AI News) with a lightweight design, perfect for running locally. Its star count (⭐3k) is growing rapidly. It’s truly a killer tool 🧠 for building local RAG applications.

2. wifi-densepose: Through-Wall Pose Estimation: Imagine using WiFi signals 📶 for human pose estimation (AI News) ! This tech can track people through walls and create real-time images. 👀 Developed using standard mesh routers, it’s gained a ton of stars (⭐6.7k). It’s all about capturing motion while totally protecting privacy.

Social Media Shares

1. Best Practices for Agent Optimization: So, how do you make an Agent 🤖 perform better (AI News) ? Let it first review human best practices, identify pros and cons, and then re-execute. Search capability 🔍 remains absolutely critical—the main difference between agents often boils down to their search game.

2. Jia Zhangke’s AI Short Film: Director Jia Zhangke’s 🎬 AI short film (AI News) has arrived! The cinematic language is still super rich and textured, showing a deep fusion of technology and art. 🤝 A traditional director dipping his toes into AI creation? The vibe 🎥 is definitely strong and unique!
   
   

3. Proactive Agents are the Big Trend: OpenClaw is just the tip of the iceberg 🧊 when it comes to agents (AI News) ; proactive agents are the huge trend ahead! Developers are advised to build their own tools 🛠️ and not get locked into a single platform. Expect a massive boom in the coming months!

4. Paradigm Shift in Collaboration in the AI Era: AI is completely reshaping the traditional collaboration paradigm (AI News) , moving us from alternating cooperation to co-creation. Information flow has gone from one-way to two-way, totally wiping out trust-related friction costs. 🤝 Now, you’re essentially exchanging tokens for idea validation.

5. Three Principles for Future Development: Future development 💡 needs to stick to three key principles (AI News) . Either boost AI efficiency, provide emotional value to humans 🤗, or directly generate economic value.

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