According to the Financial Times, since the AI boom began in 2023, the four US tech giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta have collectively invested $1.1 trillion (approximately 7.44 trillion RMB) in AI.
Recently, the open-source AI Agent tool OpenCode released data showing that the official version of DeepSeek V4 Flash consumed 800 billion tokens in a single day on the platform, with 500 billion from free allowances and 300 billion from paid plans.
The 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model marks the next step in the Qwen lineage, succeeding Qwen3.7-Max with notable gains in multimodal and agentic tasks.
Researchers at Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech) have developed 3D-printed footpads that reduce a quadruped robot’s battery consumption by as much as 6.2%, offering a cost-effective way to extend operating time without adding springs or other bulky hardware to the legs.