HarmonyOS will beat Apple's iOS this year, and Musk responded that Tesla's sales were surpassed by BYD
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Huawei's HarmonyOS will beat Apple's iOS in 2024 to become the second largest operating system in China
According to the global smartphone sales forecast report released by TechInsights, Huawei's self-developed HarmonyOS system will surpass Apple's iOS in 2024 and become the second largest operating system in the Chinese market after Google's Android. The report predicts that Huawei will alleviate the chip shortage in the coming months and achieve a solid recovery in 2024, pushing the HarmonyOS system to surpass Apple's iOS. (Observer.com)
Tesla's sales were overtaken by BYD, and Musk responded: We are an AI/robotics company
BYD overtook Tesla as the world's largest EV manufacturer in the last quarter of 2023. On the social platform X, a user compared the two companies. Tesla CEO Elon Musk replied to the post that Tesla is an artificial intelligence/robotics company, but in the eyes of many, it is more like a car company. (Read Special News)
Technology companies
Pinduoduo insiders: Duoduo Grocery is operating normally, and its local life business is closed
Pinduoduo has closed its local life business, which will continue to operate as normal. The business was originally planned to be launched nationwide after the Spring Festival in 2024, but at the end of 2023, investment promotion personnel in some areas received instructions to suspend the project. The move is seen as a tactical shift in the competition between Pinduoduo and Meituan and Douyin in the market. (The Paper)
The wave of lease withdrawals of large factories is coming to an end, and rents in Beijing's office market stabilized in the fourth quarter
According to the report, net absorption across all asset classes in Beijing's office market returned to positive territory. For the full year, the three markets added a total of 1.54 million sq m of new supply, but the net effective rent decreased by 9.4% year-on-year. Judging from the four factors affecting the market, such as the impact of the epidemic and the conservative expectations of enterprises, the adjustment cycle of Internet companies will come to an end. Colliers predicts that the office market will face significant changes on the demand side in 2024, but there will still be one of the most difficult times for the office market. (City boundary)
ByteDance has entered the car maintenance market! Source: It is still in the "test run" stage
ByteDance's Knowing Car Emperor launched an offline car maintenance brand "Understanding Car Maintenance". At present, the "Know How to Care Car Maika Auto Service Center" has been set up in Chongqing, mainly providing fine cleaning, maintenance, coating and other services, but the specific foreign cooperation model is expected to be announced next year. This move is seen as a further optimization of Chedi's business layout in the automotive aftermarket, and it also indicates that the entry of Internet giants will intensify the competition in the automotive aftermarket. (National Business Daily)
Beta-beta interest community, Alipay fights again for social?
Alipay recently tested a new social function "Interest Community", which is positioned to discover common interests and find playmates. This is Alipay's new social experiment since the launch of "Circle" in 2016. Interest communities are grouped as gathering points, and users can join various interest groups according to their hobbies. In addition, there are also features such as "Popular Events Nearby". (Tech Planet)
Apple's market value evaporated by 900 billion yuan in two days! It was downgraded by a well-known investment bank, what pot does Cook have to carry?
At the start of 2024, Apple's stock suffered a decline, closing at $184.25 per share on January 3, a loss of $128.8 billion from the last trading day of 2023. Barclays Bank downgraded Apple stocks, predicting that demand for iPhones, Macs and other products could be weak in 2024. Affected by this, the stock prices of Apple's supply chain listed companies also fell. The market has high hopes for Apple's upcoming MR headset, the Vision Pro, which will affect Apple's stock price and performance in fiscal 2024. (Times Finance)
According to the news, Alibaba's Southeast Asian e-commerce Lazada laid off some employees in its Singapore office
It is reported that Alibaba's Southeast Asian e-commerce company Lazada has laid off some employees in its Singapore office, involving employees at different levels in multiple departments. The affected employee received an email invitation on 2 January and met with the company's HR department on 3 January. Previously, parent company Alibaba injected more than $1.8 billion into Lazada, which currently covers six countries in Southeast Asia. (Viewpoint New Media)
AI weather vane
The Chinese team costs 220,000 yuan, and can do a full banquet and wash dishes
Mobile ALOHA, a stir-fry robot developed by the Stanford-Chinese team, successfully completed a variety of complex tasks with 50 demonstrations. The robot can be operated autonomously and can also be controlled remotely at a cost of only $32,000. In addition to completing the preparation of dishes, it can also wipe down the wine spilled on the table, take the elevator and other complex tasks, and the user can quickly approach the speed of an expert through remote control. (New Zhiyuan)
In 2023, 23 new AIGC unicorns will be released: the highest valuation is 100 billion, and 6 are from China
In 2023, there will be 23 new unicorns related to generative AI and large models, and 6 domestic companies include Zhipu AI, MiniMax, Baichuan Intelligence, Zero One Everything, and Zhiyuan Robot. These unicorns involve large language models, AI video generation, vertical industry application developers, and GPU cloud service providers. Among them, there are three unicorns with a valuation of more than $5 billion, and Anthropic, known as OpenAI's fierce rival, has a valuation of $18.4 billion. (Wisdom Stuff)
The first case in the country was compensated 500 yuan in the first trial, who does the copyright of "AI Wensheng Map" belong to?
The Beijing Internet Court concluded China's first infringement case of "AI Wensheng Pictures", clarifying the "work" attributes of AI-generated images and the identity of the "creator" of the user. In the case, the plaintiff used an AI tool to generate a picture and publish it on Xiaohongshu, and the defendant used the image without permission and deleted the original author's signature, which was found to be infringing. The judgment in this case grants rights and interests to the creators of AI-generated content, but emphasizes that whether such content constitutes a work needs to be determined on a case-by-case basis and cannot be generalized. (Beijing Business Daily)
Li Feifei's team realized "air modeling" and restored a complete 3D human model through occlusions
Wild2Avatar (W2A), a new human modeling tool launched by Li Feifei's team, can build a complete 3D model from a 4-second single-angle video. As a human modelling method, compared with the previous SOTA method, the W2A extraction results not only have more accurate contours, but also have a stronger sense of three-dimensionality, and perfectly remove occlusions, revealing the whole body structure. W2A only needs 100 frames of training video to restore the complete character structure. (qubits)
Tech figures
徐大姐，闷声赚了10个亿
Investor Xu Xin bought Pinduoduo shares in a big way in the third quarter of 2023, and three months later, he achieved a gain of nearly 76.51%, reaching about RMB 1 billion. This purchase accounts for 76.3% of the capital holdings, showing that it has "deep qualifications, many weapons, boldness, and no path dependence". Some commentators believe that this marks Xu Xin's breaking the traditional definition of VC and expanding the investment boundary in the way of "all decision-making". (China Investment)
Smart new products
According to the news, Apple's iPhone 16 Pro will be equipped with a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera
Well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo broke the news that the iPhone 16 Pro released this fall will be equipped with two 48MP sensors for the first time, and the ultra-wide-angle lens of the new machine will enter the era of high pixels, and the shooting ability will be greatly improved. In addition, iPhone 16 Pro will apply Pixel Quad in one to the ultra-wide-angle lens to enhance low-light shooting capabilities. With the new device will feature a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor, it is expected that shooting 4K spatial video will be possible. (IT House)