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🤖 Google builds AI campus in Korea, DeepMind’s first drug enters human trials

· Evening brief · 10 news · 5:32

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Google’s planting an AI flag in Korea, DeepMind pills meet real people, Wall-B vacuums move in for good, Alibaba’s Qwen rides shotgun, image models duke it out, TikTok turns censor-bot, and the race is so hot Hong Kong stocks just dove for cover!

Today's artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating its transition from the digital world into physical reality, with its application depth and breadth continuously expanding. A DeepMind spin-off company's AI-designed drug has entered human trials for the first time, marking a critical breakthrough for AI in the life sciences. Notably, Chinese tech giants have launched embodied AI robots designed specifically for home environments, and Alibaba has deeply integrated its Tongyi Qwen AI into automobiles. These developments collectively signal a new phase of intelligent technology merging with human daily life. While competition among core models remains fierce, the practical application of AI has become a clear trend.

Today's Top 3 Headlines

  1. AI Industry News

    🤖 Google to build AI campus in Korea, scaling global infra

    Google to build AI campus in Korea, anchoring its global infra push. Local devs gain fresh compute & data, Korean startups to sprint on Google Cloud & AI tools.

    Source
  2. Drug Discovery

    🤖 DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs AI drug enters first human trial

    Isomorphic confirms its AI-designed drug cleared for Phase I, first healthy volunteers dosed. For DeepMind and AI drug-discovery, algorithmic molecules now face human proof; clean safety data would validate AI’s 30-50% R&D speed-up and unlock follow-on pipelines.

    Source
  3. Technology

    🤖 DeepSeek preview lukewarm, LLM race still red-hot

    DeepSeek teased its next-gen LLM with zero numbers; no benchmarks, no gain claims. For devs, the top-tier gap keeps shrinking—picking a model now hinges on price and ecosystem, and the compute price war is set to intensify.

    Source

+7 more headlines

  • 🤖 Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, Meituan bet on Wall-B home bots rolling out this month
  • 🤖 Qwen hits the road: BYD, Geely +3 more add offline voice for food, hotel, ticket booking
  • 🤖 TikTok under US AI: vibe gone, ethics & privacy sirens
  • 🤖 ChatGPT Images 2.0 vs Nano Banana Pro: Who’s the New AI Art King?
  • 🤖 Podcast: China’s Humanoid Robot AI Leap & Real-World Deployments
  • 🤖 UBS initiates Buy on MINIMAX-W & DeepSeek V4
  • 🤖 MiniMax-W HK shares plunge 15% in a day, AI valuations reset again
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