1. Business circles
1. Robin Li's internal speech: The open source of large models is of little significance
A few days ago, Robin Li expressed his views on key topics such as open source or closed source of large models in his internal speech. He said that when Wenxin was first released, there was a very heated internal discussion, and the final decision was not to open source.
Robin Li believes that the significance of open source models is not very large, and these open source models are scattered and small-scale to do a variety of verification applications, and they have not been verified by large computing power. And the open source model is not a situation where everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high. Open-source models have not been validated on a large scale, and their effectiveness and potential have not been fully proven.
In Robin Li's view, only closed sources can have a real business model and gather talents and computing power.
2. Seven Cats Company was exposed to card point layoffs and unilateral violent layoffs
Maimai News, recently, a person named Ao Moumou posted a complaint against Seven Cats Company for layoffs, no year-end bonuses, unilateral layoffs, and resignation certificates that are not conducive to his job search and other 7 bad behaviors, which rushed to the hot search.
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On April 10, the legal department of Shanghai Seven Cats Culture Media Co., Ltd. responded as follows:
Recently, Ao Moumou, a former employee of our R&D center, has released some remarks related to resignation, and our company has paid attention to it and launched an investigation. Our company will preserve evidence for false statements that may cause damage to our reputation, and reserve the right to pursue the legal responsibility of relevant subjects, thank you for your attention.
3. PwC's infighting went viral: turning a blind eye to Evergrande's financial fraud
Recently, Xiaohongshu uploaded an open letter from the crazy PwC partner, targeting his own chairman of Asia Pacific and China, Raymund Chao, pointing out the "four deadly sins" of his ten-year helm at PwC:
Lust for profit, gangs, ignoring customer management and audit risks, set up a "200 million club", and took 200 million yuan from the firm every year.
The communiqué has a personal vendetta, the old department is installed, and the opponent is suppressed on the grounds of audit quality management.
Hiding from the world, hiring lobbyists with high salaries, and evading the inspection of the quality of practice by PwC International Headquarters.
Poor governance and ultimate responsibility for the leakage of government secrets by partners in the Australian office.
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4. Zhou Hongyi appeared at Harvard to give a speech on AI, saying that the trip to Harvard only had the purpose of "attracting fans".
On April 14, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360, was invited to speak at the 27th Harvard China Forum at Harvard University.
Zhou Hongyi discussed the importance of AI belief and the future development trends and opportunities of AI. He put forward his own experience of China's AI entrepreneurship opportunities: First, the development of AI is not only OpenAI's path, and China should also explore its own path. Second, the development of AI is not just about making larger and larger models, but also about smaller and smaller models that focus on specific scenarios. Finally, he pointed out that professional-grade large models have the opportunity to lead the industrial revolution, and emphasized the importance of open source for technological development.
Second, the industrial circle
1. The pure-blooded Hongmeng real machine was unveiled, or it was first released in September Mate70 series
On April 14, Sina Weibo blogger @Flanker_017 posted a hands-on image of HarmonyOS NEXT, showing the operation interface of the new system. He revealed that the native Android app is no longer available in the new version.
It is reported that the first model to be equipped with a pure-blooded version of HarmonyOS may be the Huawei Mate 70 series, which is scheduled to be released together with the iPhone 16 series in September this year (or postponed to October).
It has been revealed that when the Huawei Mate 70 series is released, users may witness the full version of HarmonyOS NEXT, and as of now, more than 4,000 apps have joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem. Compared to the first batch of 200 apps announced in January, the number of HarmonyOS native apps has increased by 20 times.
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2.AI Pin's first user experience was exposed, with $699 plus a monthly subscription fee of $24, which did not perform as expected
As an innovative wearable smart communication device, the exposure of AI Pin at the exhibition has made it highly anticipated, but it has not met expectations in the experience after the actual release. In a Bloomberg review, journalist Mark Gurman summed up his experience with "the AI device revolution won't kill smartphones."
According to the report, the experience of AI Pin is not satisfactory in some aspects. For example, although it supports real-time translation in 50 languages and a variety of interaction methods, such as voice, gestures, etc., in actual use, there is a certain delay problem, especially in the case of poor network environment, this delay is more obvious. Its innovative laser interactive screen blurs once outdoors in bright light environments. In addition, the AI Pin is priced at $699, plus a $24 monthly subscription, which can be a high bar for consumers.
3. iOS18 progress: The new AI features will run entirely on the device side and will not rely on the cloud
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the first set of new AI features that Apple plans to roll out in iOS 18 will not rely on cloud servers at all.
Gurman said: While the world waits for Apple's June 10 release of a massive AI product, it seems that the first wave of features will be fully operational on the device. This means that the company's large language models (software that supports new features) do not have a cloud processing component.
Gurman said Apple may still offer some cloud-based AI features powered by Google Gemini or other providers.
Apple has reportedly held discussions with companies such as Google, OpenAI, and Baidu about potential generative AI partnerships. iOS 18 is not expected to include Apple's own ChatGPT-like chatbot, but it's unclear if Gemini or other chatbots will be integrated directly into iOS 18.
iOS 18 is rumored to have new generative AI features for the iPhone's Spotlight search tool, Siri, Safari, Shortcuts, Apple Music, Messages, Health, Numbers, Pages, Keynotes, and more.
Gurman previously reported that generative AI will improve Siri's ability to answer more complex questions and allow messaging apps to complete sentences automatically.
Apple is expected to release iOS 18 and other software updates at WWDC, its annual developer conference, June 10-14.
4. More concise and easy to use than Suno, AI music app Udio swipes the screen
Udio is an AI music generator founded by former Google DeepMind researchers. It allows users to quickly generate a complete audio track with vocals by entering text prompts, including information such as music style, theme, lyrics, etc. Udio's goal is to simplify the music creation process and enable users to create high-quality music in a fraction of the time.
Udio is currently in the open beta phase of free beta, and all users can generate 1,200 songs per month for free. Udio is suitable for a wide range of people, including music lovers, professional music producers, independent artists, content creators, educators and students, advertising and media professionals, and more.
Compared with Suno, Udio has a qualitative improvement in music generation effects, which can generate long music compositions from the introduction to the outro, and support community sharing.
5. Implementation of the new regulations of Xiaomi App Store: Prohibiting APP from checking auto-renewal by default!
The regulations on the "New Auto-Renewal Function Standard" in the Xiaomi App Store were officially implemented on April 13, after a month of publicity. The most important provision of the new regulations is that if the app contains content that provides services in the form of automatic renewal and automatic renewal, the user's consent must be sought, and the user can only open it after the user's second confirmation, and it shall not be checked by default and forced to be bundled.
The key points are as follows:
- If the application contains an auto-renewal service, the user's consent must be sought, and the user can only activate it after the user's second confirmation, and it must not be checked by default or forced to be bundled.
- Before the user activates the service, the (application) shall inform the user of the service content, the amount and method of deduction in a conspicuous manner and in clear and understandable language.
- The application auto-renewal agreement must clearly state the ways and methods for canceling the auto-renewal function, and provide a convenient way to unsubscribe during the auto-renewal service.
- The application auto-renewal agreement shall clearly state that the user will be notified of the service content and the amount of deduction in a conspicuous manner such as SMS or message push 5 days before the auto-renewal.
6. Lei Jun: Xiaomi SU7 supports a limited-time reconfiguration
Yesterday, Lei Jun's official Weibo account released a message saying:
From 9 a.m. on April 19, a 24-hour time-limited configuration change will be opened. Users who have locked the non-original version can change the configuration in the Mi Auto app.
It is reported that this time-limited configuration change is limited to non-founding version lock users, and the production plan and delivery time will be rearranged after the change.
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Previously, Xiaomi cars were reported to be facing the problem of insufficient production capacity, and Xun.com said: (reporters) found that the factory is still producing in a single shift, and has not worked overtime, and the current daily production capacity of Xiaomi car factories is less than 300 vehicles. Suppliers said that even if the supply of spare parts is met, it will be difficult for Xiaomi's auto factory to increase production capacity in a short period of time.
3. Technology Circle
1.xAI says Grok-1.5V will soon be available to early testers
Recently, xAI launched its first multimodal AI model, Grok-1.5V, which not only has powerful text processing capabilities, but also can process a variety of visual information, including documents, charts, screenshots, and photos.
It is reported that Grok-1.5V adds visual processing capabilities on the basis of the previously released language model Grok-1.5. It uses an innovative architecture that extracts the features of an image or video first, and then uses cross-attention layers to fuse visual features with text input for a unified understanding. Users can upload their own images and let the Grok-1.5V answer the relevant questions. This demonstrates the model's ability to make inferences about arbitrary user-supplied images.
In benchmarks such as VQAv2 and NLVR2 that test visual question-answering and reasoning capabilities, Grok-1.5V outperforms models such as GPT-4.
xAI sees great potential for multimodal AI like the Grok-1.5V for real-world applications. Examples include analyzing images from medical scans, understanding e-commerce product images, and processing video information from robots and self-driving cars.
xAI plans to release Grok-1.5V via API in the coming weeks so that developers can take advantage of its multimodal capabilities in their own applications.
2. Tencent Cloud disclosed the cause of the service failure on April 8: The cloud API was abnormal for nearly 87 minutes
It is reported that on the afternoon of April 8, a large number of netizens reported that Tencent Cloud had a service failure, an interface response error, and a 504 error on the webpage. Judging from the time of feedback from netizens, the time of the Tencent Cloud crash was about 15:20. Some netizens said: My object storage is completely unusable!!!" "A bunch of customers have blown up!"
On April 14, Tencent Cloud's official account issued a document disclosing the cause and details of the large-scale service failure on April 8. The outage lasted nearly 87 minutes, during which time 1,957 customers reported the outage.
According to the official, after fault location, it was found that the customer's inability to log in to the console was caused by the cloud API abnormality.
The cause of the failure is insufficient consideration of the forward compatibility of the new version of the cloud API service and insufficient configuration data grayscale mechanism.
After a fault occurs, the service backend and configuration data are rolled back to the old version at the same time according to the standard rollback scheme, and the API backend service is restarted, but at this time, because the container platform that hosts the API service also relies on the API service to provide scheduling capabilities, a circular dependency occurs, resulting in the service being unable to be automatically pulled up. The API service is restarted through manual operation and maintenance to complete the entire fault recovery.
3. YouTube video exposes the falsification of Devin AI demo video
YouTube IT blogger Internet of Bugs posted a video titled "Debunking Devin:" The First AI Software Engineer's Upwork Lie!" last week, which has been viewed more than 18w and has been widely discussed on social platforms such as X.
In the synopsis of this video, Internet of Bugs wrote, "Recently, the so-called 'first AI software engineer' Devin was born. The company lied and said that their video showed Devin completing freelance work on Upwork and getting paid. I did a frame-by-frame analysis of Devin Upwork's video, and here I show what Devin is supposed to do, but what it actually does, and how badly it does it. ”
In Devin AI's official demo video, at least the following hype and false packaging are included. First of all, the UpWork task that Devin is trying to solve is intentionally chosen, and the tips given to Devin are different from the client's requirements in the upwork project. Second, Devin AI's so-called bug fixing is basically creating bugs in the file itself and then fixing them. In the end, it took Devin more than 5 hours to do what a human could do in less than 45 minutes, but the demo showed that it could be done in minutes.
The YouTube blogger said there was a lot of hype around generative AI, but he couldn't accept the falsification of Devin's capabilities, and that the spread of such rumors "led a lot of non-technical people to believe that AI might soon replace programmers." ”
Netizens complained under the video, "I really hate that fake in the demo has become the current fashion."
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Others happily said, "The thought of AI having to debug its own terrible code in Sisyphean Hell for six hours is the funniest thing I've seen this week."
Source: 51CTO Technology Stack