Skild AI raised about $1.4 billion in a C‑round led by SoftBank, with participation from Nvidia, Sequoia, Bezos Expeditions and others, to develop a universal foundation model—Skild Brain—that can be deployed across diverse robot platforms, leveraging large‑scale visual data and a hierarchical control architecture.
Meta's acquisition of Manus, a general‑purpose AI Agent startup that hit $100 million ARR in just eight months and processes 147 trillion tokens, signals a major shift in the AI Agent landscape by combining Manus's proven technology with Meta's massive ecosystem.
DeepAgent is a new end‑to‑end reasoning agent that unifies autonomous thinking, dynamic tool search, and execution, handling over 16,000 real APIs, supporting embodied environments and research assistance, and achieving state‑of‑the‑art results across multiple benchmarks through its unified reasoning core, memory‑folding mechanisms, structured memory, and the ToolPO training framework.
In a keynote at the 2024 Beijing Zhiyuan Conference, Baidu’s CTO Wang Haifeng explained how large‑model universality and comprehensive capabilities are driving artificial general intelligence forward, highlighting scale laws, multimodal advances, agent technologies, and the industrial‑scale production of AI.
The article presents OPPO's latest research on virtual human audio‑lip and RGB driving, multimodal learning breakthroughs such as CETNETs and cross‑modal matching, and a reflective discussion on the challenges and future directions of general artificial intelligence, highlighting the interconnections among these three domains.
