(GLOBE NEWSWIRE, April 16, TMT2024) -- Today's highlights: Liu Qiangdong digital human will start live streaming, Robin Li says open source models will fall behind more and more, the United States will provide $6.4 billion in subsidies to Samsung Electronics, TSMC will nominate two former CEOs of American companies to the board of directors, and OpenAI will open its first Asian office in Tokyo.
Liu Qiangdong digital human will start the live broadcast
Liu Qiangdong, founder and chairman of the board of directors of JD.com, is about to start a live broadcast on the JD APP. At 18:18 on April 16th, Liu Qiangdong's "Procurement and Marketing of Dongge AI Digital Human" will make its live broadcast debut in the live broadcast room of Jingdong Home Appliances and Home Furnishings. The AI digital human uses the AI-driven large-profile digital human technology self-developed by JD Yunyanxi. Previously, JD.com announced that it would invest 1 billion in cash and 1 billion in traffic as rewards to attract more original creators and high-quality content institutions to settle in.
Robin Li said that the open source model will fall further and further behind
At the 2024 Baidu Create AI Developer Conference, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, revealed, "Wenxin Yiyan was first launched on March 16 last year, and today is a year and a month, with the number of users exceeding 200 million, the daily API call volume also exceeding 200 million, the number of customers or enterprises served reaching 85,000, and the number of AI native applications developed using the Qianfan platform exceeding 190,000." Robin Li released the tool version of Wenxin Large Model 4.0, which improved the algorithm training efficiency by 5.1 times and the inference performance by 105 times. Robin Li also said that in today's large-scale model ecosystem, open-source models will become more and more backward. "Compared with the model directly called up by the open-source model, the effect is significantly better at the same size, and the cost is significantly lower under the same effect. ”
Baidu Intelligent Cloud's new generation of intelligent computing operating system was released
Baidu Intelligent Cloud Wanyuan released a new generation of intelligent computing operating system. The kernel of the operating system not only includes various characteristic large models such as Baidu Wenxin large model, but also is compatible with other third-party large model products, which can fully meet the needs of the industry. In addition, based on Baidu's newly launched ModelBuilder development tool, developers can also quickly develop their own models.
The U.S. provided $6.4 billion in subsidies to Samsung Electronics
To help Samsung Electronics build a factory in Texas, the U.S. government will provide $6.4 billion in subsidies to Samsung under the CHIPS and Science Act. Based on this, Samsung Electronics will invest USD 17 billion in Taylor, Texas, to expand the scale and investment targets of semiconductor factories under construction to a total of USD 45 billion by 2030. This is more than double the size of the originally planned investment. Samsung Electronics will invest in the construction of a new semiconductor factory in Taylor City from 2022 to fully enter the U.S. market. The U.S. subsidy to Samsung is second only to Intel ($8.5 billion) and TSMC ($6.6 billion).
Samsung Kioxia is aiming for 1000 layers of NAND
Samsung plans to begin mass production of ninth-generation V-NAND flash memory later this month, with 290 layers of stacking available, less than 23 percent more than the current 236 layers. According to Samsung's plan, the 10th generation of V-NAND will be mass-produced in the second half of 2025, further stacked to 430 layers. Samsung will probably reach 1000 layers around 2030. Previously, Kioxia said that it aims to mass-produce more than 1,000 layers of 3D NAND in 2030-2031.
TSMC will nominate two former CEOs of U.S. companies to the board of directors
TSMC will nominate two former CEOs of major U.S. companies to its board of directors. The world's largest contract chipmaker said it would nominate former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and former U.S. natural gas company Sunoco CEO Lynn Elsenhans to the board. TSMC previously said that Chairman Mark Liu will step down after the shareholders' meeting.
OpenAI will open its first Asian office in Tokyo
OpenAI announced that it is expanding its operations to Asia with its first office in Asia, Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo office is OpenAI's third overseas branch after London and Dublin, and the number of employees will increase to 10 to 20 this year. Tadao Nagasaki, former president of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Japan, will lead OpenAI's Japan operations. OpenAI will also release a GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language, improving performance in Japanese text while improving the performance and cost-effectiveness of translating and summarizing Japanese text.
Google will invest more than $100 billion in artificial intelligence
Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, Google's AI research arm, said the company would spend more than $100 billion to develop AI technology over time. He said Google has more computing power than competitors like Microsoft. "That's one of the reasons we partnered with Google in 2014, because we knew that in order to achieve artificial general intelligence, we needed a lot of computing power. The global interest generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT shows that the public is ready to embrace AI systems, even if they are still flawed and error-prone. ”
Japan will file a lawsuit against Google over search ads
Japan's antitrust regulator is planning to push Google to reform its business practices because of alleged unfair restrictions on Google's search advertising partnership with Yahoo. The Japan Fair Trade Commission has been investigating the keyword-targeted search advertising technology that the company provided to Yahoo. In 2010, the two companies reached a partnership agreement that allowed Yahoo to use Google's search engine and distribution system to run keyword-targeted ads. In the mid-2010s, Google asked Yahoo to stop displaying search-related mobile ads on third-party websites, and Yahoo modified its contracts with customers accordingly. In 2022, the Fair Trade Commission launched an investigation into whether Google's actions constituted unfair practices under Japan's antimonopoly law.
Meta将临时关闭土耳其Threads
Meta will temporarily shut down its social media platform Threads in Turkey from April 29 to comply with a temporary ban from Turkey's antitrust authorities. The move will not have an impact on Meta's other social media platforms and services in Turkey, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Last month, Turkey's antitrust regulator imposed a temporary injunction on Meta aimed at blocking data sharing between Instagram and the Thread platform to investigate the company's possible abuse of its dominant market position.
Microsoft will completely abandon Office 2016/2019 next year
Microsoft has officially announced that it will no longer support Office 2016 and 2019. According to the announcement, Office 2016 and Office 2019 applications, as well as associated Productivity Servers, will reach end of support (EOS) on October 14, 2025. This means that after this date, these applications will no longer receive security fixes, bug fixes, or technical support. Microsoft plans to provide support for standalone Office 2024 applications for a period of five years. The consumer version is expected to be available in the fall of 2024.
Adobe adds AI video tools
Adobe is developing a video model for its AI tool family, Firefly, that will power its video editing platform, Premiere Pro, allowing users to generate videos using text prompts, or add and remove objects, as well as extend the length of video clips. Firefly on Pr also integrates third-party models from Runway, Pika, and Sora, allowing Pr users to freely choose to use it. The feature will be available this year.
Sony releases the Camera Remote Control Kit
Sony has officially released the Camera Remote Control Kit, which supports 29 Sony cameras. The Camera Remote Control Toolkit consists of two parts: the Camera Remote Control Command Protocol and the Camera Remote Control Software Development Kit. Among them, the camera remote control command protocol is a new technical specification document, which removes the restrictions on third-party software development, and supports users to develop different software according to different application scenarios and needs, and remotely control the camera, including shooting, monitoring and file transfer. The Camera Remote Control Software Development Kit is an integrated command system that uses a dedicated API provided by Sony to operate and control Sony cameras.
Sharp plans to discontinue production of some large LCD panels
Due to the sluggish performance of the panel business, Sharp has decided to stop producing some large LCD displays. Sharp has informed its suppliers of the plan and that Sharp intends to negotiate with these companies to decide when to suspend production, the sources said.
In the first quarter, China's TV market shipped 8.44 million units
According to data released by Lotu Technology, in the first quarter of 2024, the shipment of brand units in China's TV market will reach 8.44 million units, a slight decrease of 0.9% from the same period in 2023. In the first quarter, the top seven brands Xiaomi, Hisense, TCL, Skyworth, Changhong, Haier, Konka and their sub-brands shipped a total of 7.74 million units, down 1.9% year-on-year, accounting for 91.7% of the overall market share.
Smart TV sales in India's TV market fall by 16% in 2023
According to a report by industry body Counterpoint Research, smart TV sales in the Indian TV market will fall by 16% in 2023. Smart TVs account for 93% of total TV sales in India, the highest market penetration in history. The top five brands in terms of market share are: Xiaomi (11.4%), Samsung (10.8%), LG (9.7%), TCL (7.1%), and OnePlus (6.8%).