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Xiaomi has taken a key step in building cars, and it is reported that it has obtained the qualification for electric vehicle production
According to media citing two people familiar with the matter, Xiaomi has received approval from China's national planning department to produce electric vehicles (EVs), marking an important step towards the smartphone manufacturer's goal of "producing cars early next year." The National Development and Reform Commission, which oversees new investment and capacity in China's auto industry, earlier this month approved Beijing-based Xiaomi to produce electric cars. (Interface News)
Japanese media: The United States will extend the "exemption period" for Samsung/SK hynix/TSMC fab in China
According to media reports, citing a number of industry sources, the United States has finalized a plan to extend the "exemption period" for foreign-funded wafer fabs to import US equipment, but the specific length of the extension is still undetermined, and it may be unlimited. (Xinzhixun)
Tech companies
The "Playback Minutes" of station B is opened for small-scale testing, and the participating UP owners can see the playback duration index
According to media reports, station B has launched the internal test of the broadcast time function yesterday, which is open to some UP owners, and the UP owners participating in the internal test can see the indicator of the "playback time index" of the manuscript. However, at present, this indicator is only displayed in the background of the UP main creation center, and the explicit version of the C end has not yet been launched. (Interface News)
Wang Yucheng, head of 3D vision at Xpeng Motors, left his job to devote himself to VR technology research
According to media reports, Wang Yucheng, head of Xpeng's 3D vision team, recently resigned. During his time at Xpeng Motors, Wang Yucheng was responsible for 3D vision-related work. After leaving Xiaopeng, he returned to his early workplace as senior director of Kandao Australia Research, a research center focused on VR technology. (Tech Planet)
The fatal flaw of the AirPods Max has caused public anger, and it is time for Apple to make headphones
A few days ago, some media reported that AirPods Max users launched a class action lawsuit against Apple in California, on the grounds that "AirPods Max has potential major defects, and moisture will accumulate in the earcups during normal use." That is to say, many users think that AirPods Max has serious quality problems, and this defect is intolerable. (Ray Technology)
IBM "slimmed down"! Sale of weather website, once acquired for $2 billion
IBM announced the sale of its weather division The Weather Company and its related assets on August 22, US time. The latest sale also highlights the widespread "slimming" strategy of the global tech industry this year. Amid macroeconomic uncertainties, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to offset economic weakness and slowing demand. (CBN)
Intel has recently focused on Intel 3 in the field of advanced process foundry
According to media reports, Intel is actively expanding its foundry business, and its advanced process technology progress continues to attract attention, the company said that it is expected that potential external customers will be more inclined to choose Intel 3 and Intel 18A processes in the future. Since the Intel 3 process development progress will be ready in the second half of this year, the outside world believes that this may mean that in the short term, Intel will focus on this process in the field of advanced process foundry to cope with competition with TSMC, Samsung and other industries. (Interface News)
AI weather vane
Nvidia H100 chip shipments will at least double next year or reach 2 million
According to media reports, citing people familiar with the matter, Nvidia plans to increase the production of its top H100 artificial intelligence processor at least threefold. Shipments of the H100 will be between 1.5 million and 2 million by 2024, up from 500,000 expected this year. (Tencent Technology)
OpenAI burst update! GPT-3.5 is officially open for "fine-tuning", and everyone can create their own ChatGPT
A few days ago, OpenAI announced that all developers can fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo. Preliminary results show that the fine-tuned GPT-3.5 Turbo has comparable performance to GPT-4 in specific tasks, and even surpasses GPT-4. What's even more exciting is that the "strongest on the surface" GPT-4 fine-tuned version will also be officially launched in a few months. (Shin Ji Won)
Kunlun Wanwei released "Tiangong AI Search", which can be used to search, talk and write with AI
Recently, the core functions of Kunlun Wanwei internal testing large language model - Tiangong AI Search are AI search, AI dialogue and AI writing. Kunlun Wanwei said that the release of "Tiangong AI Search" hopes to achieve conversational interaction to replace keyword matching, from the current internal testing situation, the search function can help users improve efficiency to a certain extent, save time to find reference materials, but there is no leapfrog experience at the "interaction" level. (Tencent Technology)
Tech figures
Ma Yun "appeared" again, concerned about education and agriculture
A few days ago, Alibaba founder Jack Ma participated in the Jack Ma Foundation's "'Principal's Appointment' Rural Principals Program 2022 Selected Principals Sharing Meeting" held in Hangzhou through the entire online connection. In the connection, Ma Yun revealed his recent situation in learning agriculture, and said that the experience gained from learning agriculture also made him look back at rural education, and felt that rural education needs to pay more attention to children's imagination and unique thinking. (CBN)
Look at the earnings report
Zhihu's revenue in the second quarter was 1.04 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%
A few days ago, Zhihu released the company's second quarter financial report. Data show that Zhihu's total revenue in the second quarter was 1,044.2 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%. Net loss was RMB279.1 million, down 42.7% year-on-year. Zhihu's average monthly active users reached 109.4 million in the second quarter. (IT House)
Aerospace
First landing on the south pole of the moon! India became the fourth country in the world to land on the moon
At 20:33 Beijing time on August 23, India's third lunar exploration mission "Chandrayaan-3" successfully landed on the south pole of the moon. India became the fourth country after the United States, the Soviet Union and China to make a soft landing on the lunar surface, and it was also the world's first probe to land on the south pole of the moon, furthering India's space ambitions. (The Paper)