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- Ele.me 10 billion set up a new company in Shenzhen
- Agency prediction: Huawei Harmony OS will replace Apple's iOS in 2024 as the second largest smartphone operating system in China
- Former NetEase executives responded to Blizzard's return to NetEase
- The local life business of Duoduo Grocery has been completely suspended
- Baidu plans to donate the quantum lab to the Beijing Institute of Quantum Studies
- The vice president of DingTalk entered the AI Agent track and received 100 million yuan in financing
- The Ministry of Science and Technology issued a document to regulate the use of AI and prohibit AIGC from directly generating application materials
- NetEase Youdao launched version 2.0 of the education model "Ziyue".
- Top 10 AIGC Application Layer Trends for 2024
- Apple may launch the Vision Pro headset at the end of this month
- Users complained about the cumbersome operation of the Win11 start menu "Show All Programs", and Microsoft executives promised improvements
- VCoder: The eyes of large language models
- Due to the low number of users, Google announced that it will stop supporting Usenet, the "ancient plain text social network" for 44 years, next month
- Stanford Meta Chinese proves that Google's Gemini inference performance is better than GPT-3.5
- Vim 9.1 发布，谨献给 Bram Moolenaar
- Visual Studio 2013 will be retired on April 9, 2024
Domestic news
Ele.me 10 billion set up a new company in Shenzhen
Shenzhen Lazas Network Technology Co., Ltd. was established with a registered capital of 10 billion yuan, and the legal representative is Chen Changxiao. The company's business scope includes software development, network technology services, information system integration services and electronic product sales. Ele.me's affiliate, Lazas Network Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., is wholly owned.
Agency prediction: Huawei Harmony OS will replace Apple's iOS in 2024 as the second largest smartphone operating system in China
TechInsights predicts that global smartphone sales will rebound by +3% year-over-year in 2024. Android and Apple iOS will continue to be the global duo, but their share of the Chinese market will be eaten away by Huawei's HarmonyOS operating system. From 2024 onwards, HarmonyOS will be the second-largest smartphone operating system in the Chinese market. (Interface News)
NetEase's former executive responded to the return of Blizzard's national service, NetEase executive Zhang Dong responded to the question of the progress of Blizzard's national service's return, saying, "The most accurate of all the speeches so far is Blizzard China, and the funny thing is that no one believes them." Previously, Blizzard China's response to the news related to "NetEase Blizzard re-cooperates and acts as an agent to introduce the World of Warcraft national server" was "Thank you for your attention, we currently have no information or updates to share". As for NetEase, it previously said "no response". It is understood that Pinduoduo's community group buying business, Duoduo Maicai, launched the investment promotion of the local life store business in mid-December 2023. In the original plan, Duoduo's local life project was expected to be launched nationwide after the Spring Festival in February 2024, but in the last week of 2023, investment promotion staff in some areas received instructions that the project would be suspended and that they would have to wait for notice when it would reopen. At the beginning of 2024, Pinduoduo's official reply was that the local life business had been completely stopped.
Baidu plans to donate the quantum lab to the Beijing Institute of Quantum Studies
Baidu plans to donate the quantum lab and equipment to the Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science, and the two sides are discussing the details. Last year, the Ali Damo Academy also donated the quantum laboratory to Zhejiang University. The former vice president of DingTalk ventured into the AI Agent track and received 100 million yuan in financing, and the artificial intelligence company "Bar-headed Goose Intelligent Technology" recently completed nearly 10 million US dollars in Series A financing for continuing to build BetterYeah AI, an enterprise-level AI Agent (artificial intelligence agent) product. Bar-headed Goose Intelligent Technology has completed 2 rounds of financing, with a total financing amount of RMB 100 million. Bar-headed Goose Intelligent Technology has been registered and established in Hangzhou for two years, and was founded by Zhang Yi (pseudonym Tao Jun), a member of the founding team and former vice president of DingTalk. The Ministry of Science and Technology issued a document to regulate the use of AI and prohibit AIGC from directly generating application materials The Department of Supervision of the Ministry of Science and Technology recently compiled and issued the Guidelines on the Code of Conduct for Responsible Research (2023), proposing that generative AI should not be used to directly generate application materials, and that generative AI should not be listed as a co-completer of the results, while emphasizing that researchers should integrate the ethical requirements of science and technology into the whole process of research activities. In response to the issue of the release of results, the Guidelines emphasize that the publication of breakthrough research results and major research progress should be approved by the scientific research unit where it is located. Researchers are not allowed to disseminate research results that have not been scientifically verified or peer-reviewed to the public, and must not republish published papers or the data and pictures contained therein, and must not piece together a part of multiple published papers to form "new results" before publication.
NetEase Youdao launched version 2.0 of the education model "Ziyue".
On January 3, NetEase Youdao held a conference on the innovation achievements of the education model, and announced the launch of the first domestic education model "Ziyue" version 2.0, and also released three innovative applications based on the development of the large model and a new intelligent hardware product: AI home teacher "Little P teacher", Youdao speed reading virtual oral language private teacher Hi Echo 2.0, Youdao AI learning Xi machine X20.
As the latest application of the large model of Ziyue's education, the AI home teacher Xiao P has received widespread attention. At present, Mr. P has taken the lead in landing on Youdao AI Xi machine X20. It is reported that this learning Xi machine pioneered the "three-in-one" mode, integrating the three functional forms of learning Xi machine, learning machine and student-specific computer, and is also equipped with a number of large-scale native applications.
Top 10 AIGC Application Layer Trends for 2024
IDC and DingTalk jointly wrote the "2024 Top 10 Trends in AIGC Application Layer White Paper", which identified the top 10 trends in AIGC applications through interviews and first-hand user insights. IDC believes that AI Agent, proprietary models, super entrances, multimodality, AI native applications, AI tooling, and AI inclusiveness will all become the trend keywords for AIGC applications in 2024.
International news
Apple may launch the Vision Pro headset at the end of this month
Apple's Vision Pro headset is expected to officially hit the shelves on January 27, with Sony as the silicon-based OLED supplier for its original Vision Pro and the Chinese company as the second supplier, which will determine whether the Vision Pro can expand production capacity. The device was unveiled at WWDC in June of this year, but Apple has yet to announce when and how much it will hit the shelves. Users complain about the cumbersome operation of Win11's start menu "Show all programs", Microsoft executives promise to improve On January 1, some netizens made a request to Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Microsoft's advertising and web services division, on the X platform: Please fix the start menu. I want to scroll to see all the apps instead of having to click on "All Apps" again. Later that day, Mikhail Parakhin replied to the netizen: "You're absolutely right! Our team needs to work hard to make the Start Menu great again!" According to previous reports, Jensen Harris, the former director of project management for Microsoft's Windows user experience team, has frantically complained about the design of Windows 11, and has posted more than a dozen in a row, including complaints about the "start" of the new version. (Sina Technology)
VCoder: The eyes of large language models
VCoder is a visual encoder that can help MLLM (multimodal large language models) better understand and analyze image content, and improve the model's ability to recognize objects in images and understand image scenes. It can help the model show how close an object is to the camera, understand more accurately what the object is in the image, and even count how many people are in the image. The main functions of VCoder include: enhanced visual perception ability to process special types of images to improve object perception tasksVCoder was compared with open-source multimodal LLMs (such as MiniGPT-4, InstructBLIP, etc.), in object recognition tasks, VCoder performed best, especially in object counting and recognition, and when dealing with object counting and recognition tasks in complex scenes, VCoder performed best, especially in object counting and recognition, and VCoder when dealing with object counting and recognition tasks in complex scenes Demonstrates greater accuracy, especially when there are many entities in the scene. At the same time, experiments have shown that GPT-4V lags behind VCoder in object-level perception.
Due to the low number of users, Google announced that it will stop supporting Usenet, a 44-year-old "ancient plain-text social network", next month
On January 3, Google recently issued a press release, claiming that due to "too few users and too much spam", it will stop supporting the 44-year-old "ancient text-only social network" Usenet from February 22. After 2000, with the rise of major website forums, the Usenet user base was much less than what it used to be, and there are only a small number of "die-hard fans" left. Google claims that Usenet uses text-only communications, and that the process of using the service is cumbersome, and that today there are "only ads and illegal information" on the platform. It is reported that users will no longer be able to access Usenet groups through the Google Groups app after February 22, 2024, at which time Google will also shut down its own Usenet servers. (IT House)
Stanford Meta Chinese proves that Google's Gemini inference performance is better than GPT-3.5
Recently, scholars from Stanford and Meta conducted in-depth research and confirmed that Google's model Gemini is not lagging behind OpenAI's GPT model in the common sense reasoning task. They argue that previous evaluations based on limited datasets failed to fully capture Gemini's true common-sense reasoning potential. And in the new test set, it turns out that Gemini's reasoning ability is much better than before. This time the evaluation is fairer, and the task that requires cross-modal integration of common sense knowledge is designed, and the performance of Gemini in complex reasoning tasks is evaluated in depth. (New Zhiyuan)
For programmers
Vim 9.1 Released, Dedicated to Bram Moolenaar This release is dedicated to Bram Moolenaar, lead developer at Vims for over 30 years, who passed away in August 2023. Without his work, Project Vim wouldn't exist!
Vim 9.1 is primarily a bug fix release, which contains hundreds of bug fixes, some new features, and many minor improvements. New features include support for Vim9 classes and Vim9 scripting language objects, a new :d efer command to help clean up functions, and support for adding dummy text to buffers, which is useful for language server features such as embedding hints...... For more information about the new features in this release, please check out the official release notes: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.1-released.phpVisual Studio 2013 will be retired on April 9, 2024 Microsoft DevBlog release news, just in time for the New Year, a good time to officially remind everyone of the Visual Studio lifecycle. Visual Studio 2013 will reach end of support on April 19, 2024, and we recommend that you upgrade to Visual Studio 2022. In addition, Visual Studio 2019 will transition from mainstream to extended support on April 9, 2024. If you're currently using the Community Edition of Visual Studio 2017 or 2019, the official recommendation is to upgrade to the Visual Studio 2022 Community, their first 64-bit IDE that also includes key productivity improvements in the editor, built-in support for Git versions with GitHub, AI-powered code completion, and control and rich integration with .NET 8 and .NET MAUI tools. The following are the end-of-support dates for each previous version:
- Visual Studio 2013 will continue to receive extended support until April 9, 2024. During extended support, only fixes for security issues are provided. You must be using Update 5 to continue to receive support.
- Visual Studio 2015 will continue to receive extended support until October 14, 2025. During Extended Support, only fixes for security issues will be provided. You must be using Update 3 to continue to receive support.
- Visual Studio 2017 will continue to receive extended support until April 13, 2027. During Extended Support, only fixes for security issues will be provided. You must be using version 15.9 to continue to receive support.
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 will have mainstream support until April 9, 2024, and will then transition to extended support by April 10, 2029. You must be using version 16.11 to continue to receive support.
- The Visual Studio 2019 Preview Channel no longer receives updates