Top 3 big news
Taobao denied that host Li Sisi entered Tao's live broadcast
Recently, the resignation of Li Sisi, a well-known female host of CCTV, has aroused heated discussions. Many netizens speculated that she is likely to transform into a live streaming anchor. The official account of Taobao Live posted on October 11, "Thank you for your attention, there are indeed many top celebrities entering Taobao this year, and the scale of Taobao Live users and the number of anchors have reached a new high." However, the account rumored on the Internet is not the host Li Sisi, but the account of the same name registered earlier. Of course, if you are interested, we are always welcome. (The Paper)
The main ingredient of Cerebral Platinum Response Capsule is melatonin
Recently, some netizens posted pictures of the main raw materials of brain platinum, saying that they always thought that brain platinum was for the elderly to supplement the brain, but did not expect it to be melatonin. In this regard, the customer service of the cerebral platinum flagship store responded that the main ingredients of cerebral platinum capsules are melatonin and starch, which improve sleep and have no toxic side effects. The customer service said that Cerebral Platinum is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people over 35 years old, and is not suitable for adolescents, pregnant mothers, patients with autoimmune diseases and patients with depressive psychosis. The products are all blue hat products approved by the state and do not have any side effects. (Daily Economic News)
Japan's Toshiba will be delisted on December 20
Toshiba Corporation reportedly said on October 12 that it would hold an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on November 22 to approve its stock merger, and the company would be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 20. Toshiba announced last month that private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners successfully completed a 2 trillion yen tender offer. (Sino-Singapore Jingwei)
Big company/big event
Provide camera modules for Huawei mobile phones? Chairman OFILM responded
At the end of September, it was reported that OFILM camera modules entered the supply chain of Huawei mobile phone Mate 60 series and accounted for the vast majority of the share, including rear cameras, front cameras, and fingerprint modules, with a single value of 500-600 yuan. In addition, in order to ensure stable order production, OFILM Nanchang plant added a number of production lines. Regarding Huawei's mobile phone orders, OFILM Chairman Cai Rongjun responded, "Stubborn to live." In addition, people familiar with the matter said that the vast majority of Huawei's (camera module) orders are indeed provided by OFILM. (CBN)
BMW 100 billion yuan battery order landed: Hive won the bid for Europe, CATL and EVE Lithium Energy competed in China
36Kr learned from a number of industry chain people that Hive Energy has obtained nearly 90GWh of capacity orders from BMW Europe, and nearly 70GWh of domestic orders will be provided by CATL or EVE. If the price per watt-hour is estimated at 0.6 yuan, the value of BMW's order will reach 96 billion yuan, more than 10 billion euros. It is understood that Hive Energy will plan two battery cell production lines for BMW in the early stage, as well as supporting module and pack production lines. The type of battery supplied is the main product of Hive Energy - short knife cells. These cells will be used in CTP mode on pure electric models of BMW's next-generation platform.
GAC Group: The company plans to invest up to USD 149 million in Didi Autonomous Driving
36Kr learned that GAC Group issued an announcement that the board of directors agreed that its wholly-owned subsidiary GAC Capital Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group Co., Ltd. will jointly invest in the establishment of a special fund with a scale of no more than US$155 million equivalent in the same proportion, and invest no more than US$149 million in Didi Autonomous Driving Company. Among them, the Company increased its capital to GAC Capital Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary, by no more than US$75 million, for the establishment of a special fund and participation in this investment.
It is reported that Xiaomi Automobile discussed production cooperation with Chery and Brilliance Automobile
According to reports, a person familiar with the situation revealed that Xiaomi has held talks with some car companies on potential production partnerships, including Brilliance Auto and Chery Automobile. The people also revealed that Xiaomi Group is still working to obtain relevant approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and discussions with other automakers are still ongoing, and it is "not certain" that any partnership can be realized. Xiaomi Group declined to comment on the matter, while Brilliance and Chery did not respond to requests for comment. (IT House)
The 2022 Statistical Communiqué on the Development of Health Care Undertakings was released: the mainland had a population of 9.56 million births last year
The National Health Commission released the 2022 Statistical Communiqué on the Development of Mainland Health. According to the communiqué, the number of births nationwide in 2022 was 9.56 million. In 2022, 38.9% of the birth population was two children, 15.0% were three children and above, and the sex ratio at birth was 111.1. In 2022, there will be a total of 75,700 childcare service institutions nationwide, providing 3,624,000 childcare places and 2.57 childcare places for 1,000 people nationwide. (CCTV News)
The three major indexes of U.S. stocks closed down collectively, and popular Chinese concept stocks fell
36Kr learned that at the close of trading on October 12, the three major indexes of U.S. stocks collectively closed down, with the Dow down 0.51%, the NASDAQ down 0.63%, and the S&P 500 down 0.62%. Most of the big tech stocks fell, with ARM down more than 5%, Tesla, Google, Meta, Netflix down more than 1%, Microsoft down slightly, and Apple and Amazon rising slightly. Popular Chinese concept stocks generally fell, JD.com fell by more than 8%, NIO and Weibo fell by more than 5%, Station B, Baidu, Xpeng Motors fell by more than 4%, Alibaba fell by more than 3%, Pinduoduo and Li Auto fell by more than 2%, and NetEase and Tencent Music fell by more than 1%.
South Korean prosecutors have indicted Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea's largest opposition party, on suspicion of corruption
On October 12, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office in South Korea reportedly indicted Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea's largest opposition party, the United Democratic Party, on suspicion of corruption. On October 6, local time, a South Korean court held the first public trial of Lee Jae-myung's corruption and dereliction of duty. In March this year, South Korean prosecutors prosecuted Lee on suspicion of malfeasance and bribery. (CCTV News)
Tesla sold Wiferion, a German wireless charging company it had acquired for only a few months
Tesla has sold its German wireless charging startup Wiferion, which it acquired just in June, to PULS, a DIN rail power supplier. However, Tesla will reportedly keep Wiferion's engineers. PULS, which announced the deal through a press release, said it will continue to manufacture, sell and market Wiferion's wireless charging products in a new business unit, PULS Wireless. (Sina Finance)
SparkXGlobal named former Google executive Ling Chenchen as chief solutions officer
36Kr has learned that SparkXGlobal announced the appointment of Chen Ling (early morning) as Chief Solutions Officer, responsible for the commercialization of SparkXGlobal's next-generation products and services in the MarTech field in China. According to the official introduction, Ling Chen has more than 15 years of rich experience in digital marketing and SaaS systems, and management experience in HP, Microsoft, Intel and Google covers omnichannel marketing management, product development, business development, data science and innovative solutions.
Goldman Sachs agreed to sell specialist lender GreenSky to a consortium of investors led by Sixth Street
Goldman Sachs issued a statement on October 11, announcing that it had signed an agreement to sell specialty lender GreenSky and related loan assets to a consortium of institutional investors led by Sixth Street. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024. According to the statement, the consortium also includes private equity firm KKR, Bayview Asset Management and credit card company CardWorks. Bond giant Pacific Investment Management will buy a significant portion of GreenSky's existing loan balance, while CPP Investments will provide strategic financing. (Interface News)
Netflix confirmed that the animation division will be restructured, which may lead to layoffs and the suspension of production of two films in the pipeline
A Netflix spokesperson confirmed media reports on October 11 that Netflix's animation division would be reorganized, leading to layoffs and the suspension of production of two films in the pipeline. The spokesman did not comment further. (Interface News)
The cumulative output of Tesla's Texas Gigafactory 4680 battery cells exceeded 20 million
Tesla announced that the cumulative production of 4680 battery cells in its Texas Gigafactory exceeded 20 million. Tesla posted on the X platform that it has just manufactured its 20 million 4680 battery cells in the Texas Gigafactory. On June 17 this year, Tesla announced that the cumulative production of 4680 battery cells in the Texas Gigafactory exceeded 10 million. It is understood that 10 million 4680 battery cells can meet the production of about 12,000 Model Y models. (Interface News)
Microsoft fine-tunes the terms of the agreement to acquire Activision Blizzard
Microsoft fine-tuned the terms of the agreement to acquire Activision Blizzard, aiming to obtain permission from the British side. The EU side did not object to this move. The UK M&A regulator is expected to agree to the deal within days. (CaiLian News)
AI at the forefront
ZTE: The latest AI server supporting large model training will be released within this year
36Kr learned that ZTE said on the interactive platform that the company, as a mainstream server manufacturer in China, has been actively responding to the application needs in the AI field and timely launched server products that meet various AI application scenarios. For example: (1) Facing the training and inference needs of small and medium-sized models, the company launched the G5 series of servers in January this year, including heterogeneous computing power servers for intelligent computing, with 10-20 built-in heterogeneous computing intelligent acceleration engines. (2) Facing the needs of AI large model training and inference, the company will focus on investing in a new generation of intelligent computing center infrastructure products to support large model training and inference, including high-performance AI servers, DPUs, etc., among which, the latest AI server supporting large model training will be released within this year.
Guo Mingxi: AI chip shipments in AMD2024-25 years are expected to grow rapidly
Recently, well-known Apple analyst Guo Mingxi said: 1. The latest survey shows that AMD's AI chip shipments (mainly MI300A) in 2024 are about 10% of Nvidia (using CoWoS process). 2. Microsoft (Microsoft) is AMD's largest customer of AI chips in 2024 (more than 50% shipped to Microsoft), followed by Amazon (Amazon). In Meta's testing of AMD AI chips with Google, Meta is expected to have a higher chance of becoming the next CSP customer for AMD AI chips. 3. AMD AI chips are mainly sold to CSPs, because CSP's software capabilities are high, which can solve AMD's weaknesses in software. (CaiLian News)
OpenAI revenue has surpassed $1.3 billion on an annualized basis
Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, told employees this week that the company generates $1.3 billion in annual revenue. That means the company has more than $100 million in monthly revenue, up 30 percent from this summer. For all of last year, the company generated just $28 million in revenue and has seen significant growth in revenue velocity since launching its paid version of ChatGPT in February. (Sina Finance)
Investment and financing
"Nullmax" received nearly 780 million yuan in Series B financing
36Kr learned that autonomous driving technology company "Nullmax" announced that it has received a total of about 780 million yuan in Series B financing. This round of financing was exclusively led by Rockhill Technology, with additional investment from old shareholder Stonehill Technology Limited, and other investors following suit. With sufficient financial support, Nullmax will expand the scale of the team in an orderly manner, improve delivery capabilities, and meet the fast-growing mass production needs of industry customers.
"Jinxiu Bio" launched its first round of financing
36Kr learned that the genetically modified silkworm spider silk manufacturing company "Jinxiu Bio" founded by Wang Yi's team is about to launch the first round of financing. The funds raised in this round are mainly used for the large-scale production of the first generation of high-tenacity yarn, downstream product development and subsequent silkworm seed iteration.
Cool product
The 2024 new Lantu Dreamer is on the market, starting at 339,900 yuan
36Kr learned that the 2024 new Lantu Dreamer was officially launched, launching a total of four models with PHEV and EV power, starting at 339,900 yuan. According to reports, the pure electric range of the 2024 new Lantu Dreamer PHEV version CLTC reaches 236km, and the CLTC cruising range of the pure electric model is increased to 650km.
The "Chapter 9 No. 3" quantum computing prototype was successfully developed
On October 11, Chinese scientists announced that they had successfully built the quantum computing prototype "Chapter 9 III", which solves Gaussian boson sampling mathematical problems 100 million billion times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. Industry experts said that in the research and development of quantum computers, China is advancing in three technical routes such as superconductivity, semiconductors and optics, all of which are at the leading level in the industry. (Shanghai Securities News)
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