Gate News update: On April 16, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, OORT (Oort) is trading at $0.01195. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 49.67%, with a high of $0.015 and a low of $0.00792. Its current market cap is about $8.8926 million. OORT is a decentralized AI infrastructure that protects data privacy and saves costs. By integrating global computing and storage resources, OORT can support trusted AI applications. OORT DataHub is a decentralized cloud platform where users can collect and preprocess data, including images, audio, or video, to improve AI and machine learning models. Users can earn OORT tokens by completing micro-tasks, verifying data, and inviting friends, among other ways.

Gate News message. On April 16, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, ORDI (ORDI) is trading at $4.46. It is up 72.87% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $4.74 and a low falling to $2.54. The 24-hour trading volume is $3.5059 million. The current market cap is approximately $93.765 million. ORDI is an inscription asset based on the Ordinals protocol. The total supply of Bitcoin is 21 million coins. Each coin can be subdivided into 100 million satoshis (the smallest unit of Bitcoin), for a cumulative total of 21 quadrillion satoshis. Inscriptions create by writing content into satoshis using the Ordinals protocol, without needing separate tokens, sidechains, or modifying Bitcoin. The protocol writes information to each satoshi, including text, images, audio, and video, etc.

Xiaohongshu's AI team has open-sourced Relax, a reinforcement learning engine for multimodal training that efficiently processes image, audio, and video inputs through advanced parallelism and asynchronous pipelining.

Gate News message, April 12, Musk’s social app XChat will officially launch on the App Store on April 17. Musk previously said that XChat’s goal is to replace the old Twitter direct message system and build a fully encrypted platform supporting text, file transfers, and audio and video calling.

Google released the multimodal model Gemma 4 on April 3. It supports text, image, and audio inputs and generates text outputs. Its context window can hold 256,000 tokens, supports 140 languages, and is designed for a variety of environments, including four different model sizes.

Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni, a fully multimodal large model, was released on March 30. It includes Instruct versions in three different sizes, supports long context, and supports multiple audio and video inputs. The model is pretrained on massive amounts of data, significantly improving multilingual capabilities, and supports 113 speech recognition languages and 36 speech generation modes.

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Mercedes-Benz China announced that an edge-side multimodal large language model jointly developed with Tsinghua University and Zhipu, an AI large model company that listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January this year, will be deployed in the new generation Maybach S-Class and the new S-Class sedan. The model is deployed in the rear-seat entertainment system, integrating natural language processing with multimodal understanding and generation capabilities in vision, audio, and other modalities. Combined with in-vehicle cameras and other sensing hardware, it completes inference under local computing power conditions. According to Zhipu's official statement, Mercedes-Benz has thus become the first automotive brand to apply a multimodal large language model in a rear-seat entertainment system.

Gate News reported that on March 17, a venture capital fund under a certain CEX recently completed two private market investments with a combined scale of approximately $35 million. Specifically, it invested approximately $14.6 million in payment company Stripe and approximately $20 million in AI audio startup ElevenLabs. Stripe is currently valued at approximately $159 billion and owns stablecoin platform Bridge.

OpenRouter launched two anonymous models, Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha, on March 12, both available for free. Hunter Alpha is a 1 trillion parameter text model focused on long-term planning and complex reasoning; Healer Alpha is a multimodal model supporting visual and audio inputs. The community has various speculations about the identities of these models, but no official confirmation has been provided.

Foresight News Report, Elon Musk tweeted that Grok Imagine 1.0 has now been released. This version adds 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and improves audio quality.