🤖AI Express: Google Gemini Upgrade, Tencent Qianwen Update, Meitu Receives $250 Million Investment from Alibaba

🤖AI Express: Google Gemini Upgrade, Tencent Qwen Update, Meitu Receives $250 Million Investment from Alibaba

* Google AI:
* Google AI Ultra is launched in the US with a subscription price of $249.99 per month, and a 50% discount for the first three months.
* Launches the experimental enhanced reasoning mode Deep Think of Gemini 2.5 Pro.
* Project Astra is updated with the goal of becoming a "general AI assistant" with real-time conversation, image recognition, and situational memory functions.
* The Gemini App adds "Agent Mode", and Project Mariner can handle 10 tasks simultaneously.
* Launches UI code generation tool Stitch for developers, as well as 3D video conferencing platform Beam.
* Gemini AI becomes the default assistant for Android, covering mobile phones, wearable devices, TVs, and in-vehicle systems.
* Tencent Qwen: Upgrades core models such as Qwen TurboS, T1, T1-Vision, Qwen Voice, etc., and launches new multimodal models such as Qwen Image 2.0, Qwen 3D v2.5.
* Meitu: Receives a $250 million investment from Alibaba.com China Ltd, and the two sides will cooperate in e-commerce platforms, AI technology, cloud computing, etc.
* ByteDance: Releases the open-source multimodal foundation model BAGEL with 7 billion active parameters (14 billion in total).
* Apple: Plans to launch a new SDK in iOS 19 to make it easier for developers to add AI features to their applications.

(Financial Flash News)

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