Today's featured AI news highlights, enjoy reading 👇

🛍️ Perplexity launches AI shopping assistant, integrating product information for one-stop shopping experience with one-click checkout, currently available only in the US market.

🤖 Mistral AI updates web assistant le Chat, adding web search, canvas panel, and other features, supporting document and image understanding and generation.

📚 Alibaba's Qwen2.5 Turbo model update extends context length to 1 million tokens, equivalent to 10 novels, and provides experience Demo.

🎨 SD-PPP plugin enables connection between Photoshop and A1111/ComfyUI, allowing direct use of AI drawing functions in PS, supporting partial redrawing and lighting control.

Latest News

1. Perplexity launches new AI shopping assistant feature "Shop Like a Pro".

The platform integrates product information, displaying it when users search for related information, enabling direct product purchase with one-click checkout, providing a one-stop shopping experience.

Detailed introduction: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/shop-like-a-pro

Currently planned for initial launch in the US before gradual expansion to other markets, with merchants now able to join Perplexity for free.

2. Major update to Mistral AI's le Chat web AI assistant.

Added multiple new features, including web search with citations, ideation tools, inline editing, and a ChatGPT-like Canvas panel.

Also integrates the latest multimodal Pixtral Large model, providing document and image understanding capabilities.

Detailed introduction: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-chat/

Additionally, includes built-in Flux Pro model, offering high-quality image generation support. Currently free for all users.

Try it online: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

3. Alibaba's Qwen2.5 Turbo model update.

Context length extended from 128k to 1 million tokens, equivalent to 10 long novels, 150 hours of speech transcripts, or 30,000 lines of code.

Detailed introduction: https://qwenlm.github.io/zh/blog/qwen2.5-turbo/

Try it online: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Turbo-1M-Demo

Provides online experience Demo, supporting upload of various document formats including pdf, docx, txt, etc.

AI Drawing

1. A plugin connecting Photoshop with A1111/ComfyUI: SD-PPP.

Through this plugin, we can directly interact with SD, SD-Forge, and ComfyUI within Photoshop, utilizing these tools' AI drawing functions.

GitHub: https://github.com/zombieyang/sd-ppp

Features include partial image redrawing, lighting control, and area prompt control.