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EEG-FM-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for the Systematic Evaluation of EEG Foundation Models
Wei Xiong, Jiangtong Li, Jie Li, Kun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17742 https://…

EEG-FM-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for the Systematic Evaluation of EEG Foundation Models
Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models are poised to significantly advance brain signal analysis by learning robust representations from large-scale, unlabeled datasets. However, their rapid proliferation has outpaced the development of standardized evaluation benchmarks, which complicates direct model comparisons and hinders systematic scientific progress. This fragmentation fosters scientific inefficiency and obscures genuine architectural advancements. To address this critical gap, w…

AgentScope 1.0: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Agentic Applications
Dawei Gao, Zitao Li, Yuexiang Xie, Weirui Kuang, Liuyi Yao, Bingchen Qian, Zhijian Ma, Yue Cui, Haohao Luo, Shen Li, Lu Yi, Yi Yu, Shiqi He, Zhiling Luo, Wenmeng Zhou, Zhicheng Zhang, Xuguang He, Ziqian Chen, Weikai Liao, Farruh Isakulovich Kushnazarov, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou

AgentScope 1.0: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Agentic Applications
Driven by rapid advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs), agents are empowered to combine intrinsic knowledge with dynamic tool use, greatly enhancing their capacity to address real-world tasks. In line with such an evolution, AgentScope introduces major improvements in a new version (1.0), towards comprehensively supporting flexible and efficient tool-based agent-environment interactions for building agentic applications. Specifically, we abstract foundational components essential for agen…

Distyl AI, which provides AI tools to automate business processes like HR management, raised $175M led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures at a $1.8B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/st

AI Consulting Startup Founded by Ex-Palantir Employees Raises at $1.8 Billion Valuation
A raft of venture-backed startups are emerging to offer high-tech consultants for businesses needing help with artificial intelligence, posing competition for companies like Palantir and McKinsey & Co. that specialize in high-priced consulting services. One is Distyl AI. The three-year-old ...

VGGT-DP: Generalizable Robot Control via Vision Foundation Models
Shijia Ge, Yinxin Zhang, Shuzhao Xie, Weixiang Zhang, Mingcai Zhou, Zhi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18778 h…

Foundation Models for Cross-Domain EEG Analysis Application: A Survey
Hongqi Li, Yitong Chen, Yujuan Wang, Weihang Ni, Haodong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15716 https://

Foundation Models for Cross-Domain EEG Analysis Application: A Survey
Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis stands at the forefront of neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, where foundation models are reshaping the traditional EEG analysis paradigm by leveraging their powerful representational capacity and cross-modal generalization. However, the rapid proliferation of these techniques has led to a fragmented research landscape, characterized by diverse model roles, inconsistent architectures, and a lack of systematic categorization. To bridge this g…

MultiSoundGen: Video-to-Audio Generation for Multi-Event Scenarios via SlowFast Contrastive Audio-Visual Pretraining and Direct Preference Optimization
Jianxuan Yang, Xiaoran Yang, Lipan Zhang, Xinyue Guo, Zhao Wang, Gongping Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19999

MultiSoundGen: Video-to-Audio Generation for Multi-Event Scenarios via SlowFast Contrastive Audio-Visual Pretraining and Direct Preference Optimization
Current video-to-audio (V2A) methods struggle in complex multi-event scenarios (video scenarios involving multiple sound sources, sound events, or transitions) due to two critical limitations. First, existing methods face challenges in precisely aligning intricate semantic information together with rapid dynamic features. Second, foundational training lacks quantitative preference optimization for semantic-temporal alignment and audio quality. As a result, it fails to enhance integrated generat…

AgentScope 1.0: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Agentic Applications
Dawei Gao, Zitao Li, Yuexiang Xie, Weirui Kuang, Liuyi Yao, Bingchen Qian, Zhijian Ma, Yue Cui, Haohao Luo, Shen Li, Lu Yi, Yi Yu, Shiqi He, Zhiling Luo, Wenmeng Zhou, Zhicheng Zhang, Xuguang He, Ziqian Chen, Weikai Liao, Farruh Isakulovich Kushnazarov, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou

AgentScope 1.0: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Agentic Applications
Driven by rapid advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs), agents are empowered to combine intrinsic knowledge with dynamic tool use, greatly enhancing their capacity to address real-world tasks. In line with such an evolution, AgentScope introduces major improvements in a new version (1.0), towards comprehensively supporting flexible and efficient tool-based agent-environment interactions for building agentic applications. Specifically, we abstract foundational components essential for agen…

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/alibaba-leads-100-mil…

Alibaba leads $100 million investment in Chinese humanoid robot startup
Capital is rushing into humanoids — X Square Robot has completed eight fundraising rounds in less than two years since the startup was founded.

CrafterDojo: A Suite of Foundation Models for Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents in Crafter
Junyeong Park, Hyeonseo Cho, Sungjin Ahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13530 https://…

CrafterDojo: A Suite of Foundation Models for Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents in Crafter
Developing general-purpose embodied agents is a core challenge in AI. Minecraft provides rich complexity and internet-scale data, but its slow speed and engineering overhead make it unsuitable for rapid prototyping. Crafter offers a lightweight alternative that retains key challenges from Minecraft, yet its use has remained limited to narrow tasks due to the absence of foundation models that have driven progress in the Minecraft setting. In this paper, we present CrafterDojo, a suite of foundat…