Google released the multimodal model Gemma 4 on April 3. It supports text, image, and audio inputs and generates text outputs. Its context window can hold 256,000 tokens, supports 140 languages, and is designed for a variety of environments, including four different model sizes.

Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni, a fully multimodal large model, was released on March 30. It includes Instruct versions in three different sizes, supports long context, and supports multiple audio and video inputs. The model is pretrained on massive amounts of data, significantly improving multilingual capabilities, and supports 113 speech recognition languages and 36 speech generation modes.

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Mercedes-Benz China announced that an edge-side multimodal large language model jointly developed with Tsinghua University and Zhipu, an AI large model company that listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January this year, will be deployed in the new generation Maybach S-Class and the new S-Class sedan. The model is deployed in the rear-seat entertainment system, integrating natural language processing with multimodal understanding and generation capabilities in vision, audio, and other modalities. Combined with in-vehicle cameras and other sensing hardware, it completes inference under local computing power conditions. According to Zhipu's official statement, Mercedes-Benz has thus become the first automotive brand to apply a multimodal large language model in a rear-seat entertainment system.

Gate News reported that on March 17, a venture capital fund under a certain CEX recently completed two private market investments with a combined scale of approximately $35 million. Specifically, it invested approximately $14.6 million in payment company Stripe and approximately $20 million in AI audio startup ElevenLabs. Stripe is currently valued at approximately $159 billion and owns stablecoin platform Bridge.

OpenRouter launched two anonymous models, Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha, on March 12, both available for free. Hunter Alpha is a 1 trillion parameter text model focused on long-term planning and complex reasoning; Healer Alpha is a multimodal model supporting visual and audio inputs. The community has various speculations about the identities of these models, but no official confirmation has been provided.

Foresight News Report, Elon Musk tweeted that Grok Imagine 1.0 has now been released. This version adds 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and improves audio quality.

Hacker groups related to North Korea are using AI-generated fake video calls to target cryptocurrency industry professionals, tricking them into installing malware. Through compromised Telegram accounts, attackers conduct multi-stage infections under the guise of "fixing Zoom audio issues" to gain control of devices. Security researchers have attributed this attack to Lazarus Group and are calling on the crypto industry to stay vigilant and strengthen security measures.

According to Gate News Bot, as of December 4, per CoinMarketCap data, SAPIEN (Sapien) is currently priced at $0.19, up 65.77% in 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.20 and a low of $0.11. The current market cap is approximately $47.5 million, an increase of $18.8 million from yesterday. Sapien is a decentralized data foundry that transforms collective human knowledge into enterprise-grade AI training data. The platform has 1.8 million global contributors from over 110 countries and has completed 187 million tasks. Sapien focuses on providing high-quality, vertically specialized training data for professional AI, including 3D/4D data annotation, data collection, and other services. Its marketplace also offers expert reasoning, image and video, audio, 3D/4D, and

Gate News Bot news, on December 02, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of the time of writing, AGT (Alaya Governance Token) is currently priced at 0.00312541 USD, having risen 13.04% in the last 24 hours, with a high of 0.00331131 USD and a low of 0.00265472 USD. The current market capitalization is approximately 5.83 million USD, an increase of 673,100 USD compared to yesterday. Alaya AI is an open and composable Web3 data sampling and automatic labeling AI infrastructure. Inspired by collective intelligence systems, Alaya AI provides customized data sampling services for enterprise applications and small to medium-sized developers through customizable Web3 incentives and RLHF/HITL precise sampling. The platform supports multimodal datasets, including image labeling, audio.

According to Foresight News, Musk tweeted that Grok Imagine has supported the text-to-video feature. The upgraded audio and 10-second video generation features are expected to be released this weekend.