12-inch fab bankruptcy for takeover; Samsung headset equipment postponed production to June next year|Science and Technology Morning News
Tech companies
Giving up the struggle, the 12-inch fab went bankrupt and asked for a takeover
After seeking a new round of investment without success, the insolvent Jiangsu Times Xincun gave up its final struggle, and the Jiangsu Huai'an government also lost patience with it. The 12-inch fab, with a total investment of 13 billion yuan and an annual output of 100,000 phase-change memories, has officially entered bankruptcy liquidation. (Jiweinet)
The Polestar 4 will be delivered in China in December, and Polestar cars may come standard with Polestar phones in the future
Polestar plans to open 60 directly-operated stores this year and 100 next year. The Polestar 4 will be upgraded to the Polestar OS intelligent cockpit system upon delivery, and Polestar models may come standard with Polestar mobile phones in the future. In the future, the two very important terminals of mobile phones and automobiles will be run-in, bringing differentiated product experiences. (LatePost later)
It is reported that Samsung's headset device suffered from Apple's Vision Pro impact and postponed production to June next year
According to whistleblowers, the initial production of Samsung's headset has been postponed to June next year because Apple's Vision Pro provides a better display. Even if Samsung releases the device in June next year, it may not be able to hit the market immediately, and it will probably only be sold in a limited number of regions. (Global Tech)
It is reported that ASUS targeted large-scale layoffs in the commercial sector, and the Zenfone team was merged into the ROG team
It is reported that ASUS targeted large-scale layoffs in the commercial sector, and the Zenfone team was merged into the ROG team. ASUS mobile phone has two series, ROG and Zenfone, but Zenfone10 will be the "swan song" of the series. Previously, ASUS laid off a large number of employees in the PC department in July, which affected not only Taiwan, but also the Suzhou PC department in the mainland. (IT House)
AI weather vane
Zhou Zhihua was elected chairman of the IJCAI Council for the first time in 54 years for mainland scholars
Zhou Zhihua, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence of Nanjing University, was elected as the chairman of the new IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Council! It is reported that Zhou Zhihua will become the first mainland scholar to hold the position of IJCAI in 54 years, and the second Chinese scholar to serve as the chairman of the IJCAI Council after Professor Yang Qiang of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. (Qubits)
Beat GPT-4, second kill closed source model! The mysterious version of Code Llama is exposed
WizardCoder 34B, fine-tuned based on Code Llama, directly beats GPT-4 on the HumanEval benchmark. Specifically, WizardCoder crushed the March version of GPT-4 with a 73.2% win rate (67%). In addition, WizardCoder 34B outperforms the latest versions of GPT-3.5 and Claude 2. (Shin Ji Won)
Domestic tens of billions of large models increase one! 40 billion parameters Mencius GPT released, performance increased by 10-15%
Domestic big model star player Mencius GPT is new! The 40 billion parameter general large model was officially released and has been invited for testing. The data shows that Mencius GPT-40B version is overall ahead of the 7B version, an increase of about 10-15 percentage points, and surpasses some domestic large models, and is close to ChatGPT-3.5 in multilingual tasks and other aspects. (Qubits)
Didi Automobile VP is engaged in large-model entrepreneurship, aiming at the transportation field, and Sequoia has invested in angels
Luo Wen, one of the leaders of Didi's car manufacturing project for the passenger car market and a veteran employee of Didi, resigned in the first half of the year to devote himself to large-model entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial goal has been finalized, closely related to the transportation field, and has won angel investment from Sequoia. (Qubits)
AI is going to get stuck in the neck? The data for training large models may be exhausted in 2026
Generative AI requires the support of very large models, which in turn need to be trained on massive amounts of data. The researchers believe that the demand for data will increase dramatically, and the high-quality text data available for training large models may be exhausted by 2026. In the United States, there have been many copyright infringement cases against model builders, and OpenAI and Meta have become defendants. (Tencent Technology)
The progress of AI elimination of migrant workers is announced, and women, Asians, and white-collar workers bear the brunt! No one is immune
According to Pew survey of 11,004 U.S. adults, about one in five people in the U.S. is in high-risk jobs that will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Among them, women, Asians, college-educated and higher-paid migrant workers will be more affected by AI. People with a bachelor's degree are more than twice as likely to be augmented or replaced by AI as those without a college degree. (Shin Ji Won)
Tech figures
Cai Lei, former vice president of JD.com, who suffers from frostbite: I have fully accepted death, but I will never give in
Cai Lei is accustomed to challenges and hard work, and he decided to fight ALS to the end: build a database, seek funding and scientist support, promote drug pipeline research and development, and support tens of thousands of ALS patients; Joined hands with more than 1,000 patients to donate brain tissue and spinal cord tissue for medical research. Maybe the result is meaningless, but the struggle itself is a meaning. (Chao News)
Smart new products
Li Bin: NIO's mobile phone is "good" to the Android flagship, saving power and not getting hot/feeling "absolutely good"
Weibo bloggers quoted screenshots of chat records provided by NIO riders as saying that NIO CEO Li Bin revealed some of NIO's mobile phone information in the group chat, but because there was no context, only Li Bin's own information could be seen. The feel is "absolutely good", and the back design is "NIO at a glance", but it is also "only on the back". (IT House)