Odaily reported that the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology revealed that in the first half of the year, the added value of the city's digital economy grew by 7.8%, of which the added value of the core digital economy industries grew by 9.8%, significantly driving the city's GDP growth. In the second half of the year, Beijing will promote the full empowerment of artificial intelligence across various domains, driving applications of intelligent translation and real-time interpretation in areas such as cultural tourism and consumption. Also in the second half, the bureau will focus on the key annual tasks of building a benchmark city for the digital economy, deeply implement the "AI+" action plan, and fully unleash the new momentum of the intelligent economy.It will formulate policies for the development of the Token economy, focusing on key aspects such as Token production, distribution, and application, and will establish Token factories and Token distribution platforms, promoting innovative applications in key fields like industry, education, and cultural tourism. Event series such as "InnoWin Future" OPC roadshows will be held to stimulate the AI application and creative vitality of super individuals. High-quality AIGC training courses tailored for OPC will be developed to unlock the value of AIGC technology. Leveraging the Open Source Chip Research Institute and the Beijing Tongminghu Information Technology Application Innovation Center, an open-source ecosystem of "RISC-V + AI OS" will be created, building a full-stack, independently controllable technical system from chip instruction sets to operating systems and intelligent agent applications. (Beijing News)

Odaily Planet Daily News: "White-Haired Stock God" Serenity posted on platform X, stating that based on the capital flow direction in China's private VC market, institutions are currently pouring into fields related to Physical AI and World Models on a large scale.Data shows the approximate capital distribution as follows: Large Models/LLMs at about $23.56 billion, AI Infrastructure and Technology Layer at about $15.74 billion, Embodied Intelligence/Physical AI at about $13.36 billion, AIGC Applications at about $8.79 billion, and Autonomous Driving plus other top 20 sub-sectors totaling about $3.82 billion (note: metrics may not be directly comparable).Serenity pointed out that early-stage pure foundational model financing is largely closed, with capital more concentrated in existing leading companies and the World Model direction. He expects this trend to also appear in the US, potentially concentrating further towards leading companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Regarding AIGC applications, Serenity believes this track's commercialization is already relatively mature, but an absolute winner has yet to emerge, exhibiting a fragmented competitive landscape in both China and the US markets.Overall, Serenity concluded that current AI investments continue to flow into infrastructure and the semiconductor supply chain. Meanwhile, capital is rapidly rotating towards Physical AI and Embodied Intelligence, but the World Model track still lacks direct investment targets.

Odaily reported that Succinct Labs, backed by Paradigm, has launched the iPhone camera app ZCAM, which uses cryptographic technology to generate a "digital fingerprint" for photos and videos, addressing the risk of forgery brought by AI-generated content (AIGC).ZCAM can sign images at the moment of capture, creating an immutable record and binding the content to the capture device. This allows users to independently verify whether the footage comes from a genuine device, has been tampered with, or was generated by AI.Unlike solutions that rely on AI detection, Succinct chooses to start at the device hardware level, generating a unique cryptographic signature for each shot. The company states that existing AI detection tools are prone to failure, whereas this approach enhances the reliability of authenticity verification.Similar projects include World, which reduces risks by distinguishing between real people and AI identities.

Odaily News: The Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou City has released the "Several Measures of Hangzhou Xiaoshan District to Support the Development of OpenClaw & OPC-STC (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)". It encourages market-oriented and professional innovation platform entities to establish "OpenClaw-type Intelligent Agent Service Zones", deploy OpenClaw-type intelligent agents for free, and provide one-stop services such as technical guidance and market promotion. Eligible innovation platform entities will receive certain subsidies. For eligible OPC-STC enterprises, a 30% subsidy will be provided for the actual model invocation fees paid when using OpenClaw-type intelligent agents to call domestic multimodal large models for AIGC creation and production. The maximum annual subsidy for a single enterprise is 100,000 yuan. (Xiaoshan Release)

Odaily News AKEDO announced the completion of a $5 million seed round to accelerate the development of its AI-native content creation engine and Launchpad. This round was led by Karatage, with participation from Sfermion, Collab+Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, Metalabs Ventures, and others.AKEDO stated that it is building a multi-agent collaborative AI content creation platform that supports game and AIGC content generation, and plans to launch features such as one-click issuance of collection tokens. The company disclosed that the platform currently has over 2 million registered users, with more than 1 million on-chain transactions and approximately 30,000 daily active on-chain users. (FinanceWire)

Odaily Planet Daily reported that at 1 a.m. today, OpenAI released the ChatGPT Study learning mode. This mode is mainly aimed at the education field and provides four methods: interactive prompts, scaffolded responses, personalized education, and knowledge point checks. It can deeply interpret the thinking and process of solving each difficult problem, rather than just giving answers. In other words, ChatGPT Study is equivalent to a 24-hour online tutor, which can provide personalized guidance and feedback based on the student's learning progress and needs. It can not only help students understand complex concepts, but also cultivate students' critical thinking and independent learning ability through step-by-step guidance. It is worth mentioning that OpenAI also provides a Study learning mode in the free version of ChatGPT. (AIGC Open Community)

Odaily News Early this morning, OpenAI announced a new AI development plan on its official website - OpenAI for Countries. On January 21 of this year, Trump announced at the White House that OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and others would invest $500 billion in the "Stargate project". Now, OpenAI hopes to establish a similar project for every country in the world, work with them to develop AI infrastructure, and provide a professional customized version of ChatGPT to improve medical care, education, law and other fields. OpenAI stated that in promoting the "OpenAI for Countries" plan, its goal is to carry out 10 projects with various countries or regions in the first phase of the plan, and further expand on this basis. (AIGC Open Community)

Odaily News ClustroAI, an edge AI startup based in San Francisco, has completed a $12 million Series A financing round led by Forum Ventures, with participation from MetaBlast and Metaverse Group. The company's total financing has reached $15 million to date, including a seed round led by NVIDIA. ClustroAI focuses on edge AI technology, allowing AI models to run on local devices without relying on cloud computing. ClustroAI plans to use the new funds to expand hardware compatibility to support chips such as FPGA, TPU, NPU, and develop automated tools to make AI model updates more convenient. (CoinCentral)

Odaily News Recently, DeepSeek launched an AIGC model called Janus Pro, which has attracted widespread attention. Intel announced the optimization of Intel Gaudi 2D AI accelerator for Janus Pro, which provides AI developers with the possibility of deploying complex tasks at lower costs and higher efficiency, and meets the needs of reasoning computing capabilities. (Jinshi)

Odaily星球日报讯 据官方消息，DMCAI 即将于本年 1 月 15 日上线高性能算力测试网：DMCAI Compute Network Testnet。用户可以通过在测试网内接入高性能 GPU（如 Nvidia H100）并质押测试网$DMCAI 代币，为 AI 开发者或相关创业公司提供算力支持，通过算力贡献或算力交付以赚取租金或额外的$DMCAI 代币奖励。DMCAI Compute Network Testnet 的上线标志着 DMCAI 在去中心化存储的基石上，向去中心化 AI 基础设施建设的进一步扩展。在全球 40,000+存储节点和 DePIN X 预计赋能 500 + Nvidia H100 算力服务群的背景下，DMCAI 除了为 Web3 用户和机构提供大量去中心化存储空间的同时，也将提供海量算力为创建私人知识库和个人隐私 AI Agent 训练、AIGC 和高价值内容的创作激励提供支持。