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Google Firebase rolls out Gemini Agent mode, while Mafengwo's AI Travel Guide offers smart trip planning.
Zhipu AI launches a free smart PPT tool, and Higgsfield AI unveils a virtual avatar system.
Meanwhile, cutting-edge AI research boosts computing performance, and the industry keeps an eye on AI efficiency and market trends.

What’s New in AI Products

1. Google Firebase Studio just got a massive upgrade! Driven by Gemini 2.5, it’s rolling out a super flexible Agent mode (think Ask, Agent, Agent Auto-run) and teasing Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Gemini CLI integration. This is all about giving developers a seriously autonomous AI-powered coding and app dev experience. How cool is that? These fresh features let you guide AI behavior by defining rule files and even customize AI workflows. Plus, they’ve already been put to work in real-world projects like hydrogen economy platforms, fashion styling systems, Pokémon card management, and architectural design visualization tools. Talk about versatility! ✨🚀
   
   
2. Mafengwo is now making its super personalized travel guide, “AI Travel Guide,” available to everyone! This bad boy is dropping alongside “AI Xiaoma,” their AI Travel Assistant, which now boasts some killer features like “AI Japan Restaurant Booking,” “Menu Photo Recognition,” and “Multilingual Real-time Translation” (supporting 7 languages, no less!). The goal here? To give users a seamless, smart self-guided international travel experience, from planning to on-the-ground services. The AI Travel Guide pioneered a “proactive questioning-demand calibration-precise generation” model, while AI Xiaoma’s new functions can even book restaurants and translate menus with pics, all without you lifting a finger. Pretty neat, huh? ✈️🗺️
   
   
3. Zhipu AI dropped a bombshell on July 10, 2025, with AI Slides, a smart PPT generation tool built on their experimental GLM-Experimental model. What’s the big deal? You can whip up professional-grade PPTs with just one click, simply by typing a topic or uploading a doc – and it’s FREE! This thing is blowing up on social media, earning it the nickname “office efficiency superpower” for seriously boosting productivity. Want to check it out? More details ✨🔥
   
   
4. Higgsfield AI just officially launched Soul ID, and it’s taking social media by storm globally! This personalized virtual avatar generation system can turn 10 uploaded photos into stunning fashion-grade shots in seconds. Seriously, this tech is next-level, perfectly capturing your real look and vibe, plus it comes with over 60 preset styles. Folks are calling it a “game-changer” that’s “redefining digital self.” And get this, some features are free to try! Ready to jump in? More details ✨📸
   
   

Cutting-Edge AI Research

1. Tri Dao, co-author of Flash Attention, teamed up with Princeton University PhD students to drop QuACK, a new kernel library that’s pure fire! Developed using just Python and CuTe-DSL, this bad boy boosts speed by 33%-50% on H100 GPUs compared to existing PyTorch libraries. This innovation is shaking up the industry, optimizing memory-intensive kernel performance without needing traditional CUDA code. Plus, they’ve even thrown in detailed tutorials for developers to get started. Sweet! ⚡️🚀
   
   
2. To thoroughly evaluate visual foundational reasoning capabilities, researchers introduced TreeBench, a diagnostic benchmark. What they found was pretty telling: existing models still struggle with visual perception and second-order reasoning in complex scenarios. So, they rolled out the TreeVGR training paradigm, which dramatically boosts performance by combining localization and reasoning via reinforcement learning. This totally proves that traceability is key to making strides in this field. Check out the Paper Link! 💡📊
3. This research dives into the cool possibility of achieving deeply adaptive architectures in pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) by dynamically skipping or repeating layers during testing. Turns out, this approach not only seriously boosts inference efficiency but also nails the accuracy for samples that were previously mispredicted. It really shines a light on the limitations of fixed model architectures. Peep the Paper Link! 🧠✨

AI Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. Manus AI, a general AI agent company, has recently shaken things up with its China operations. They’ve reportedly laid off some staff and are relocating core technical personnel to their Singapore headquarters. Right now, their official website screams “Not available in your region,” and their Chinese social media accounts are wiped clean. This definitely signals a major shift in Manus’s China market strategy. 🤔🇨🇳🇸🇬

Top Open-Source Projects

1. genai-toolbox is a fantastic open-source MCP server for databases, aiming to tackle database-related headaches. This project has racked up 5392 stars! Get the scoop here: Project Link. 🌟
2. googletest is Google’s go-to testing and mocking framework, designed to help developers crush software testing way more efficiently. This project is huge with 36323 stars! Dive in: Project Link. ✅
3. authentik is a sleek authentication solution that aims to simplify identity management, literally described as “the authentication glue you need.” It’s earned a solid 16983 stars! Find out more: Project Link. 🔐
4. The agentic-doc project, sitting pretty with 767 stars, is a Python library all about agentic document extraction from the LandingAI platform. Grab it here: Project Link. 📄
5. The flexile project, with 565 stars, is designed to make contractor payments ridiculously simple and convenient. Seriously, it aims to hugely streamline the process! Check it out: Project Link. 💰

Social Media Buzz

1. Blogger wwwgoubuli spilled the beans on how he crushed an urgent task for his chairman in just 5 hours, before a 4 PM deadline! He’s seriously mind-blown, saying even with GitHub Copilot before, he couldn’t have imagined such insane efficiency. This just screams how much AI-powered tools are leveling up work productivity. 🔥🤯 Get the full story: More details
2. Blogger Guizang’s AI Toolbox shared her curated AI prompts for generating stunning dynamic PPT cover videos with a single click in AI tools like Lovart and Xingliu Agent. These prompts let you craft minimalist, elegant PPT dynamic backgrounds with cool glass panel effects and looping blue gradient animations. You gotta see this! Check it out: More details ✨🎨
3. Wang Mo points out a wild difference: Cursor is totally hyped up overseas, with users happily paying up, while Chinese users are all about exploiting bugs to snag free lifetime memberships. This unique startup environment makes him straight-up say if he were to start a business, he’d prioritize overseas markets. Food for thought, right? 🤔💸 More details
4. Xiangyang Qiaomu is absolutely raving about Claude Code’s insane power! With just one prompt, it cranked out a web scraper to grab Paul Graham’s articles and turn them into EPUB e-books in a mere four minutes. Talk about lightning-fast! 🚀🤩💻
   
   
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5. Baoyu, with a sharp take, compared writing code to raising kids. He bluntly stated that developers shouldn’t just “birth” code without “nurturing” it. Not maintaining code after “vibe coding” is totally like being an irresponsible “scumbag.” Ouch, but fair point! 💔👨‍💻 More details
6. Baoyu broke down how Large Language Models (LLMs) actually work, making it super easy to understand. He explained that at its core, an LLM predicts the next word based on conditional probability, and then he dove deep into how the concept of temperature influences the diversity and creativity of the generated content. This share is all about helping readers grasp the LLM’s prediction mechanics and how it churns out flexible outputs. Pretty illuminating! ✨💡🤓
   
   
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7. DeepLearning.AI just dropped the latest edition of “The Batch” weekly digest! Andrew Ng chats about how the US is shaping AI regulation through legislation. Plus, the report covers how Anthropic researchers got LLMs to extort, AI beehives keeping bees healthy, Walmart building a cloud- and model-agnostic AI application platform, and generating massive datasets to train web agents. This digest is packed with broad insights and the freshest advancements in the AI field. Don’t miss it! 🗞️🤖
   
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8. Microsoft Research AI for Science published BioEmu in the journal “Science,” and it’s a game-changer! This generative deep learning method is all about simulating protein equilibrium ensembles, which is super crucial for understanding protein function at scale. This innovative research hands us a powerful new tool to dive deep into protein behavior. Pretty cool, right? 🔬🧬✨ More details
9. Guizang (guizang.ai) is buzzing with excitement to announce that YouWare is hosting an AI Application Challenge! Developers are invited to build AI apps using the new MCP tools for a chance to win hefty prizes up to $2,300 (cash and YouWare points included!). The submission deadline is July 20, 2025. Get on it! 🥳🏆💰
   
   

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