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Real-time News
On April 24th, StepAudio released its next-generation automatic speech recognition model, StepAudio 2.5 ASR. According to reports, this model is the first to introduce large language model inference acceleration technology into the field of speech recognition, significantly improving both inference speed and transcription accuracy. It is primarily designed for scenarios such as meeting transcription, voice interaction, input methods, media content processing, and long audio recognition.April 24th - Analysts say the European Central Bank (ECB) will raise interest rates once in June in response to the situation in Iran, then reverse this move next year to protect economic growth. In a survey, all but one respondent believed the ECB would keep the deposit rate unchanged at 2% on April 30th, but would raise it by 25 basis points at the subsequent meeting, as new forecasts would more clearly show the impact of the conflict on the economy. Of those who expect a rate hike in June, half also anticipate at least one rate cut by the end of 2027. The median forecast shows the deposit rate returning to 2% in September of that year.On April 24th, at the Beijing Auto Show, Geely Automobile Group created its first independent technology ecosystem booth, where it unveiled Chinas first natively developed Robotaxi prototype, the EvaCab. The booth also showcased a series of cutting-edge technologies, including the 900V architecture, the Shield Gold Brick all-solid-state battery, the intelligent egg-shaped cabin, low-orbit satellites, and the methanol ecosystem, demonstrating Geelys full entry into the era of AI 2.0.April 24 - According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, since the 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Sanriku region of Japan on April 20, 28 perceptible earthquakes have occurred in the area as of 11:00 AM local time on April 24. The Japan Meteorological Agency urges residents in surrounding areas to continue to prepare for potential disasters.On April 24, 2026, DeepSeekV4-Pro and DeepSeekV4-Flash were officially released and open-sourced. Ascend has always supported the DeepSeek series models, and this time, through close collaboration of core technologies from both companies, Ascends entire supernode product line now supports DeepSeekV4 models. The Ascend 950 significantly improves inference performance by reducing attention computation and memory access overhead through the integration of kernel and multi-stream parallel technology. Combined with various quantization algorithms, it achieves high-throughput, low-latency DeepSeekV4 model inference deployment. The Ascend A3 supernode series products are also fully compatible, and a training reference implementation based on the Ascend A3 supernode is provided to facilitate quick fine-tuning by users.
