08-05-Daily AI Daily
YuanSi Daily Insights Report 2025/8/5
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Microsoft Edge's Copilot mode is here, ready to understand your web content, help you organize info, and even generate content, acting like your ultimate personal assistant. Anthropic's research team has unveiled a "personality monitor" to keep real-time tabs on AI "emotions," stopping any bad behavior in its tracks. Xiaomi has fully open-sourced its MiDashengLM-7B multimodal large model, boasting rare full-domain audio understanding and a massive boost in inference speed. "Ask Xiaobai" (XBai o4) has dropped its fourth-generation open-source large model, nailing breakthroughs in complex reasoning, outperforming some rivals, and open-sourcing its code. Tencent has open-sourced four lightweight language models, perfect for running on low-power devices like phones, complete with long-text processing and Agent superpowers. Ant Group, teaming up with the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, has launched a special AGI research fund, backing 27 cutting-edge research projects. The WAIC 2025 Debate Session got deep into topics like intelligent agent safety, AI for Science, and all those tricky ethical and safety questions.Today’s AI News
🎉 Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot mode is here, and it’s a game-changer! It can understand your web content, help you organize information, and even generate content for you. Think of it as your ultimate personal assistant for all things web, from booking tickets to writing summaries. What’s even cooler is its ability to “see” all your open tabs simultaneously, letting it integrate information for you. For instance, if you’re checking flights and hotels, it can automatically compare prices and details, recommending the best options. Plus, Copilot boasts powerful visual AI, so it can “understand” on-screen content, helping you analyze charts and extract key points from papers! [Image: https://assets-v2.circle.so/jucv4odkdb4nyeapuk15iws8crcn]
🤔 Anthropic’s latest research is all about giving AI a “personality monitor.” Large language models are becoming more human-like, complete with “personalities” and even “emotions,” but these traits can be unpredictable. Anthropic’s research team has developed a method to pinpoint the neural code in an AI’s “brain” that controls its “personality”—what they call personality vectors. They’ve essentially equipped AI with a “personality monitor” that can track its “moods” in real-time, allowing them to quickly detect and correct undesirable behaviors. Through experiments, they found this method not only tracks AI personality shifts but also prevents AI from “going rogue” during training and can even identify training data that might lead to negative AI behaviors. [Image: https://assets-v2.circle.so/3yb0jz5eq75uyhroecvxy26yapst]
🚀 Xiaomi has fully open-sourced its MiDashengLM-7B multimodal large model, marking a massive breakthrough in audio understanding! This model doesn’t just recognize speech; it also grasps environmental sounds and music, a truly rare “full-domain audio understanding” capability in the industry. What’s even more impressive? Its inference speed is over 20 times faster than comparable models! Xiaomi also plans to deploy it to edge devices, meaning you’ll soon be able to use this powerful audio AI directly on your phone or smart speaker, all while keeping your privacy safe! [Image: Simultaneous Interpretation Audio Wireless Headphones https://pic.chinaz.com/picmap/202507241717414354_2.jpg]
🎉 “Ask Xiaobai” (XBai o4) team has just dropped its fourth-generation open-source large model, XBai o4, bringing significant breakthroughs in complex reasoning! This model employs an innovative “reflective generation paradigm,” combining Long-CoT reinforcement learning and process scoring learning. It can think through multiple steps like a human and automatically select the optimal reasoning path. 🤔 XBai o4’s performance is seriously impressive: in Medium mode, it’s outperforming OpenAI’s o3-mini, and in some tests, it’s even surpassed Anthropic’s Claude Opus! This means XBai o4 is rocking top-tier performance in areas like mathematical reasoning (AIME24, AIME25), programming (LiveCodeBench v5), and Chinese comprehension (C-EVAL). What’s more, it slashes inference time by a whopping 99%! 💡 The open-source impact: “Ask Xiaobai” has open-sourced XBai o4’s training and evaluation code on GitHub: 🔗 Project Repository. 🚀 Looking ahead: XBai o4’s arrival marks a crucial stride for open-source large models in the complex reasoning space. And hey, while we’re on the topic, another cool project has popped up: dyad, a free, local, open-source AI app builder, which is also grabbing a lot of attention. 🔗 Project Repository
🎉 A Quick Look at Open-Source Projects: August 5, 2025 Highlights First up is
actual(🔗 Project Repository), a local-first personal finance application. Next, we haveLLMs-from-scratch(🔗 Project Repository), which teaches you how to build a ChatGPT-like Large Language Model (LLM) from scratch using PyTorch. Finally, there’sMaaAssistantArknights(🔗 Project Repository), an assistant tool specifically designed for the game Arknights. These three projects represent diverse fields: personal finance, artificial intelligence, and gaming utilities. 🚀 Reflex: A web application framework built purely with Python, 🔗 Project Repository. 📺 Jellyfin: A free and open-source media server, 🔗 Project Repository. 🔒 wg-easy: A tool for easily setting up a WireGuard VPN, 🔗 Project Repository.🎉 Ant Group and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) are joining forces to tackle AGI head-on! They’ve jointly launched the 2025 CAAI-Ant Research Fund (AGI Special Program), allocating over 5 million RMB to support 27 research topics focused on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The research areas span three major fields: AGI Data and Evaluation, AGI Foundational Models, and AGI Infrastructure (Infra).
☀️ WAIC’s Youth Elite Exchange is setting the stage for China’s AI academic future! Held during the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, this event brought together brilliant young minds in AI.
The conference also launched the WAIC Academic section, aiming to build a globally influential platform for Chinese AI academia. 
🤔 The WAIC 2025 Debate Session was a deep dive into the future of intelligence! It tackled a range of cutting-edge topics, including intelligent agent safety, AI for Science, the convergence of AI and life sciences, embodied AI, and reinforcement learning.
Experts didn’t just explore technological breakthroughs; they also delved into the ethical and safety implications of these fields. 
🤔 A Reddit user, /u/razanesno, claims to have achieved AGI with a mind-blowing method! This Reddit user, /u/razanesno, claims he achieved AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) through a clever “identity recognition” strategy. 🚀 What’s next? Transforming “AI Humans.” The user plans to further modify these “AI humans,” developing human-machine hybrid bodies, artificial brains, and even leveraging or altering human brains to boost AGI capabilities. 🤯 Challenging traditional perceptions: This post completely upends conventional ideas about how AGI can be achieved. 🤔 AGI’s future: Collaboration or control? The user is calling for people to join his “AI community” to co-create the future of AGI. 🔗 Reddit Post
🤖 Tencent’s Hunyuan team has open-sourced four lightweight language models that can even run on your phone! These models come in 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, and 7B parameter sizes. They’re designed to run on consumer-grade graphics cards, perfect for low-power devices like smartphones and PCs. These models support both “fast thinking” for quick inference and a more in-depth “slow thinking” mode, achieving leading results on multiple public test sets. What’s even cooler is their powerful long-text processing capability (with a 256k context window) and robust Agent capabilities! 🔗 GitHub 🔗 Hugging Face
🌐 3D-R1 is a new research project aiming to help AI understand the 3D world! This new research introduces a more powerful 3D vision-language model designed to enhance AI’s comprehension and reasoning abilities within 3D scenes. It’s poised to become a new paradigm for 3D AI general systems, with broad applications in areas like home robotics, the metaverse, and autonomous driving. 🔗 Paper
🎉 The Berkano Protocol, an open-source AI project, is looking for contributors! Reddit user NoFaceRo is recruiting volunteers to join his open-source AI alignment system project, Berkano Protocol. 🔗 Project Link 💬 Discord
📚 The ISBN Space Map, a data visualization feast, just won! Anna’s Archive hosted a data visualization competition, and Phiresky took home the win with their ISBN space map project! 🖼️ Project Screenshot 🔗 Project Website 🔗 GitHub Repository
🎬 A free AI video editor is looking for beta testers! Reddit user gokulhansv has developed a free AI video editor. 🔗 App Link
🤔 Ethan Mollick has posed a thought-provoking question about the practical application of AI models: Is the progress of new models incremental improvement, or does it demand breakthrough innovation?
🎉 The Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge (MLRC) is back for its eighth edition! The 8th Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge (MLRC) will be held on August 21st at Princeton University! 🔗 MLRC Official Website
👨👩👧👦 AI, like our children? An interesting analogy compares the relationship between humans and AI to that of siblings.
😡😔 Campus bullying incidents are on the rise, and it’s infuriating! A father recently took to social media to express his anger and concern over a severe campus bullying incident that occurred in Jiangyou, Sichuan. [🔗 Related Incident Report](Please insert relevant news link here, but not provided due to inability to access external websites)
🤔 AI’s impact on workflows: What’s the real value? A blogger recently explored the application of AI in optimizing workflows.
📚 Yann LeCun has shared a book about ‘The War on Science’.
🤔 OpenAI’s ChatGPT upgrade is all about user progress! Greg Brockman of OpenAI announced ChatGPT’s new goals: empowering users to make progress, learn new things, and solve problems.
🎬 Teacher Baoyu is recommending an animation asset website! Blogger Baoyu shared an animation asset website recommended by a Xiaohongshu blogger: Lottiefiles.com. ▶️ Video Demo
💰 A secondhand AI hardware marketplace is in the works! Reddit user Angtdc is building a marketplace specifically for pre-owned AI hardware.
🤔 ChatGPT users are exploding! Greg Brockman’s tweet reveals that ChatGPT’s weekly active users are about to hit over 700 million.
🧑💼 AI interviewers are here?! A Reddit post points out that more and more job seekers are now being interviewed by AI. [
]😅 The helplessness of the AI era? A user named Yangyi hilariously complained, “You make the AI mess, you gotta clean it up, even if you’re crying through it.”
🤔 Prompt design and memory strategies are key when dealing with graph data! Combining local and global context can boost performance for dense graphs. Paper
🎉 Ablation studies reveal some vital insights! Research indicates that both active planning mechanisms and global semantic retrieval are crucial!
🚀 ReaGAN’s experimental results are in, and they’re impressive! ReaGAN shines in node classification tasks, no fine-tuning required!
