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On January 11, local time, at the National Retail Federation's annual trade show at the Javits Convention Center in New York, Walmart's incoming CEO John Verner and Google CEO Sundar Pichai jointly announced a collaboration between the two companies.

As the first large-scale model company rang the opening bell, the rules of the game in the AI ​​industry were quietly changing......

For Meta, this acquisition is a crucial strategic boost. Meta lags slightly behind competitors like Google and Microsoft in AI applications and urgently needs a flagship product. Acquiring Manus allows it to quickly gain access to a market-proven team and technology, completing a key piece of its puzzle in the field of general intelligent agents and integrating it into its vast product ecosystem (such as Facebook and Instagram).

Manus, a pioneer in General AI Agents, has officially announced its integration into the Meta family.

On November 17th, xAI released Grok 4.1 to all users, including free accounts. This update, after two weeks of beta testing, focused on two main optimizations: emotional understanding in dialogues and factual consistency. The most striking data shows that the illusion rate has dropped from approximately 12.09% in the previous generation to less than 5%.

Over the past week, the AI ​​community's attention has been drawn to a mysterious model that quietly emerged on the OpenRouter platform—Polaris Alpha. As a direct continuation of yesterday's discussion of the GPT-5.1 leak, this suddenly appearing model brings more technical details and strategic signals worthy of in-depth exploration.

An accidental codebase leak has revealed OpenAI's strategic plans and release timeline for its next-generation large-scale model.

In the field of artificial intelligence, a long-standing problem has plagued researchers: catastrophic forgetting. When AI models learn new knowledge, they often lose previously acquired skills and abilities, much like overwriting an old cassette tape. This bottleneck severely restricts the continued development and practical application of large-scale models.

On November 5, 2025, SoftBank Group and OpenAI officially announced the establishment of a joint venture, SB OAI Japan GK, with plans to launch "Crystal Intelligence," an enterprise-level AI solution for the Japanese market, in 2026. This collaboration will integrate OpenAI's advanced AI technology with SoftBank's localized resources, aiming to reshape the management and operational models of Japanese companies and help them enter a new era driven by AI.