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AI News Daily: January 10, 2026

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Today's Digest

Alibaba Cloud launches Mooni M1, an AI companion for kids, customized with Tongyi Qianwen and featuring emotion recognition.
Claude Code updates to 2.1.0, adding features like session transfer, sparking widespread discussion.
RelayLLM's small model controls large models only for critical tokens, saving 98% inference costs.
MiniMax shares surge 61% on HKEX debut, oversubscribed by 1000x, setting a record for fastest AI IPO.
NetBird, an open-source WireGuard networking solution, garners 20K stars, supporting SSO and fine-grained access.

Product & Feature Updates

1. Alibaba Cloud launches Mooni M1, an AI companion for children. This AI smart agent, AI Smart Agent Mooni M1 (AI News), specifically designed for kids, was jointly launched by Alibaba Cloud and Tingli Bear in Shenzhen. Mooni M1 is deeply customized based on the Tongyi Qianwen large model and can even recognize emotional fluctuations! 💖 It comes with strict content filtering to keep out any inappropriate stuff. Plus, it integrates premium podcasts and secure call functions, so parents can always keep tabs on their little ones.

2. Claude Code update, 1096 commits, sparks discussion. Claude Code (AI News) has been updated from version 2.0.76 to 2.1.0, boasting an incredibly long changelog. Netizens are jokingly wondering if a super intelligent agent is behind all that code 😂. New features include Shift+Enter for new lines, hook support, and session transfer. The team, led by Boris, then quickly followed up with versions 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 to squash some bugs.

3. xAI launches atmospheric programming tool Grok Build. Grok Build, a new product called Grok Build (AI News), is currently under development by Elon Musk's venture, xAI. A preliminary web version is already out, featuring a new, independent tab. Grok Build is planned to come with a CLI command-line interface, operating as a local agent. Users will be able to leverage natural language instructions to have the AI help plan searches and builds (Exciting stuff!) 🚀.

4. Gmail officially enters the Gemini era. Gmail has officially entered the Gemini era! Google announced that Gmail (AI News) now integrates Gemini, making it your go-to AI email assistant. It boasts a new AI Overviews feature for generating email summaries and Q&A. The "Help Me Write" function can automatically draft emails (how cool is that?!). Smart Reply has also been upgraded to mimic your writing style and can even add emojis! 📧
   
   

5. Tencent internally tests AI interactive story mini-program "Stuck Frog." "Stuck Frog" (上头蛙), an AI-powered interactive story mini-program, is currently being internally tested by Tencent. This program focuses on delivering an immersive, AI-driven interactive narrative experience. Users can actively influence the plot by making choices that guide the AI to continue branching storylines (Super cool!) ✨. It covers genres like film & TV IPs, urban romance, and mystery thrillers, among other exciting content.
   
   

Frontier Research

1. RelayLLM achieves token-level collaborative inference, saving 98% cost. RelayLLM has introduced a new, highly efficient inference framework that lets smaller models act as controllers. RelayLLM (AI News) only calls upon larger models for critical tokens, enabling a relay-style generation and slashing costs! Across six benchmarks, RelayLLM achieved an average accuracy of 49.52% (Impressive!). The large model ends up processing only 1.07% of the tokens, leading to a whopping 98.2% reduction in costs! 💸

2. CompassMem enhances Agent memory with event graphs. The CompassMem Framework (AI News), inspired by event segmentation theory, organizes memories into event graphs. It incrementally segments experiences and establishes logical connections, serving as a "reasoning map." This enables goal-oriented, structured navigation (way beyond simple retrieval). In tests on LoCoMo and NarrativeQA, CompassMem significantly boosted retrieval and reasoning performance 🧠.

3. Agentic Retoucher automatically fixes flaws in AI-generated images. Agentic Retoucher (AI News) mimics human perception, reasoning, and action to iteratively fix flaws in generated images. It features a perception agent to locate blemishes, a reasoning agent to diagnose problems, and an action agent to perform repairs. The team even built the GenBlemish-27K dataset, containing 27K annotated regions. This bad boy outperforms SOTA in perceptual quality and alignment with human preferences (Pretty awesome, right?!) 🎨.

4. MENTOR framework uncovers implicit domain risks in LLMs. The MENTOR (AI News) framework introduces a metacognition-driven, self-evolving framework. It discovers potential model biases by simulating critical thinking. MENTOR builds a dynamic rule knowledge graph that evolves with risk patterns. It also incorporates activation guidance to ensure compliance during inference, performing close to human expert levels ✅.

5. MT-Video-Bench evaluates multi-turn video dialogue capabilities. MT-Video-Bench (AI News) fills a crucial gap in multi-turn dialogue evaluation. It includes 1000 meticulously constructed dialogues and assesses 6 core capabilities, focusing on perception and interactivity. The benchmark covers scenarios like interactive sports analysis and intelligent video coaching (Super practical!). Tests have revealed a significant gap among mainstream MLLMs in multi-turn conversations 😬.

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. MiniMax surges 61% on HKEX debut, igniting AI craze. AI unicorn MiniMax (AI News) has landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with shares skyrocketing 42% right at opening! Its public offering was oversubscribed an astounding 1837 times, with international placement seeing 37x oversubscription. MiniMax went from founding to IPO in just four years, setting a new record for the fastest in the industry 💰. This news sent A-share AI concept stocks soaring, with Yingli Media hitting its daily limit (What a hot debut!).

2. Figma CEO discusses human creative value in the AI era. The Figma CEO shared some thoughts on AI and creativity in a recent Tweet (AI News). He suggests that the probability of a work being entirely AI-generated is inversely proportional to its expected lifespan. Long-term projects demand human craftsmanship, with AI serving purely as an assistive tool. The core software experience should remain stable (deep insights!), while AI is best suited for generating rapidly changing components 💡.

3. Vercel announces sponsorship of Tailwind CSS project. The Vercel CEO announced that they will be Officially Sponsoring Tailwind CSS (AI News)! He called Tailwind a foundational web infrastructure that has fixed CSS issues. He also noted that AI model companies like Gemini, GPT, and Claude have all benefited from it 💪. The community and industry definitely owe a lot to Adam's team (Big thanks!) 🙌.

Top Open Source Projects

1. NetBird secure networking solution gains 20K stars. NetBird (AI News), which has already racked up 20.7k stars ⭐, builds secure overlay networks based on WireGuard. It supports SSO (Single Sign-On) and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication). NetBird offers fine-grained access control to connect your devices (Super handy!). It's an open-source, self-hosted solution, providing enterprise-grade security 🛡️.

2. ConvertX supports 1000+ file format conversions. ConvertX (AI News), boasting 13.7k stars ⭐, is a self-hosted online file converter. This powerhouse supports converting between over 1000 formats (Talk about versatile!). Being open-source, you can deploy it yourself, keeping your data private 🔐. It features a clean interface and is super easy to use.

3. ByteDance open-sources UI-TARS desktop multimodal Agent. ByteDance has open-sourced UI-TARS-desktop (AI News), which has already hit 21.4k stars ⭐. This bad boy connects cutting-edge AI models with Agent infrastructure. It's a multimodal AI Agent tech stack (Pretty impressive!), offering out-of-the-box functionality. UI-TARS-desktop supports intelligent interactive scenarios on desktop 💻.

4. Shadowrocket ad filtering rules updated daily. The Shadowrocket Rule Library (AI News), with 21.4k stars ⭐, provides multiple rules for powerful ad filtering capabilities. Rules are automatically rebuilt every day at 8 AM (Talk about diligent!). It's continuously maintained, offering excellent blocking results 👍.

Social Media Buzz

1. Gemini CLI now also supports Claude Code Skills. Gemini CLI v0.23.0 is out, and guess what? It now experimentally supports Agent Skills preview! As N. Taylor Mullen Shares (AI News), you can try it out with a simple npm install -g (That's some quick follow-up!). They're currently gathering user feedback 💬.

2. Andrew Ng proposes three pillars for AI success. Andrew Ng shared his three pillars for AI success: systematic courses for foundational knowledge, hands-on practice for accumulation, and advanced paper reading 📚. He warns against blind practical work leading to inefficient repetition (Super important!). Understanding underlying principles can help avoid pitfalls with technologies like RAG. And hey, leverage Agentic Coder to boost your productivity 💪!

3. Creating Agents with Claude Skills is super easy. Creating Agents with Claude Skills is a breeze! Gui Zang Demo (AI News) demonstrated creating PPT generation skills. You can generate PPTs from any document, with support for style selection and custom page counts. After generation, you can export images and create a full-screen preview webpage (So convenient!). This could totally be part of an Agent system for mixed image and text content ✨.
   
   

4. Geely Galaxy M9 features Jiyue Xingchen native voice model. The Geely Galaxy M9, which debuted at CES2026 Debuts (AI News), is equipped with the Step-Audio 2 end-to-end architecture. This means direct voice input and output, skipping the usual ASR+LLM+TTS process entirely! It responds within 0.7 seconds and supports multi-turn conversations. Plus, it can recognize emotions and tone from the raw voice (How cool is that?!) 🎤.
   
   

5. Claude Code releases code simplification Agent plugin. Claude Code has released a code simplification Agent plugin! Boris Cherny Announces (AI News) announced the open-sourcing of the code-simplifier agent. You can install it by simply typing /plugin install code-simplifier. This awesome tool is actually used internally by the team to simplify code (Super handy!). The prompt for it is already open-source on GitHub 🐙.
   
   

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