Dong Yuhui's "small composition" incident escalated, Dongfang Selection's market value evaporated by 4 billion, and Apple's stock price hit a record high
Hot spotlight
Dong Yuhui's fans were furious, and after losing fans, Dongfang Selection CEO said: His annual salary is over 10 million, and he has no disadvantage
Dong Yuhui's small essay incident continued to ferment, and Sun Dongxu, CEO of Oriental Selection, officially responded to the recent small essay incident in the live broadcast room, saying that there were problems within the company, but the problems were not terrible, and the company could handle them. In the early morning of the 13th, Dong Yuhui also issued a long post in response to the incident. As of 15:40 on the 13th, Oriental Selection fell by more than 12%. (National Business Daily)
After reproduction studies by 8 research institutes in Korea, the Korean Society: There is no evidence to confirm that LK-99 is a superconductor at room temperature
According to Yonhap News Agency, the Verification Committee of the Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics released a white paper online on the 13th, saying that after comprehensively considering the data of the original paper and the results of reproduction experiments at home and abroad, it was determined that there was no evidence to prove that LK-99 is a superconductor at room temperature and pressure. (Observer.com)
Technology companies
Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is the second generation unveiled: faster and lighter, easy to handle eggs
On December 13, Tesla released a new demo video of Tesla's humanoid robot "Optimus Gen2" (Optimus Gen2) on X.
Compared to the prototype shown earlier, the Optimus Gen2 seems to have improved significantly in terms of weight, flexibility, and more. Some analysts believe that at the current rate of iteration, Optimus robots may soon be able to replace humans in many areas. (Wall Street News)
Ant announced the "de-P" rank reform: the previous system has been in use for many years and cannot match the development needs
On the afternoon of December 13, in response to the newly implemented reform of the rank system, a relevant person from Ant Group responded that Ant's current rank system has been used for many years and can no longer well match the company's development needs, and the new rank system is to better adapt to market changes and provide better organizational support for the company's development. Prior to this, on December 12, Ant Group released a plan for the reform of the rank system, which was comprehensively "de-P", and the new rank system was no longer composed of P+ numbers, but directly referred to as numbers. (Tencent News Periscope)
According to the news, SpaceX intends to sell its internal shares at $97 per share, valuing it at nearly $180 billion
According to foreign media reports, according to people familiar with the matter, SpaceX will sell shares held by internal employees at a price of $97 per share in the takeover offer, which will value Elon Musk's space and satellite company at nearly $180 billion. (Tencent Technology)
JD.com insiders deny the layoff rumors: there are no similar plans and employees are still hiring
It is rumored that JD.com is making personnel adjustments, involving logistics, technology, retail, industrial and other business lines. JD.com insiders have denied the rumors, saying that there are no similar plans and that it is still hiring, and the company's total number has increased to 590,000. (Tencent Technology)
Tesla recalls more than 2 million vehicles due to self-driving issues, and will release OTA software updates
Due to safety risks, Tesla has announced that it will recall 2,031,220 vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. Tesla plans to address this issue with an OTA update. The industry believes that this recall may deal a blow to Tesla's core business model. (IT House)
Chuan Hon Hai will invest an additional $1.67 billion in India to further expand iPhone production capacity
According to Reuters, the government of India's Karnataka state said on Tuesday (12th) local time that Hon Hai would invest an additional 13.911 billion rupees (about 1.67 billion US dollars) in the state, but did not disclose specific details. (Xinzhixun)
AI weather vane
OpenAI's sky-high annual salary of 6 million shocked netizens, and the salary of the top AI companies in the United States was exposed
Recently, a salary table of a major American technology company was exposed, and OpenAI led the way with a starting salary of 5 million. Startups pay more than any big tech company. However, the hourly wage of junior code farmers is as low as 85 yuan. As you can see from the chart, OpenAI offers employees an annual salary of up to $865,000 and a base salary of $665,000, with a salary increase of up to 30%. (New Zhiyuan)
Microsoft's small model beats Llama 2, 96 A100 GPUs practice for 14 days, 2.7 billion parameters
Microsoft has released Phi-2, a small language model with a size of 2.7 billion parameters, which has been tested by researchers and demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in models with a parameter size of less than 13 billion. Its average performance score has surpassed the 7 billion, 13 billion parameter scale Mistral and Llama 2, surpassing Google's Gemini Nano 2 in some benchmarks. (Wisdom Stuff)
Transformer has received 400 million yuan in financing, with Google, Nvidia, and AMD participating
The large model company founded by the author of Transformer has received another 56.5 million US dollars in investment, which is converted into more than 400 million yuan. Nvidia, AMD, and Google, the two founders' old employers, are all participants in this round of financing. Combined with the funding raised in the seed round, the company, which was founded less than a year ago, has raised nearly $65 million. (qubits)
Smart new products
iPhone 16 Industrial Design First Revealed: The classic design of the iPhone X returns
MacRumors exposed the iPhone 16 prototype renderings, according to reports, Apple's iPhone 16 prototype has a variety of design options, one is to adopt the iPhone X's classic camera island design language, and the other is to return to the iPhone 12 design language, and the cameras of both design languages are arranged vertically. (Fast Technology)