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—— Domestic dynamics ——
1. Wang Xing's comment on ideals: MEGA is a car built for Li Xiang, and L6 is built for employees
Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan and investor of Ideal, reposted the video of the L6 press conference of Li Auto on Moments last night and commented on L6 and MEGA.
Wang Xing said: Let's put it this way, I think that among all the models launched by Ideal so far, the L6 will most likely be the one that Ideal's employees buy the most. I'm sure many of Ideal's employees knew this in their hearts during the design and production of this car.
Later, he said in the post area: In other words, MEGA is a bit like a car made for the ideal CEO himself, and L6 is the car made by the ideal employee for himself.
2. Make a friend to respond to tangerine peel fraud: the product authorization qualification and procurement link are complete, and the facts will be ascertained with the testing agency
In response to recent media reports that a certain brand of tangerine peel products sold in the live broadcast room of Make a Friend were identified as fake in terms of origin and year. Make a friend issued an announcement today to explain, saying that the authorization qualification and procurement link of the tangerine peel product are complete. At the same time, the brand's purchase contract shows that the transaction date is 2013, and the product is more than 10 years old.
Make a friend and said that he would get in touch with the testing agency as soon as possible to find out the truth, and it is estimated that it will take a week.
3. 360: The total revenue in the first quarter was 1.719 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 12.53%
360 Group released its 2023 annual report today. During the reporting period, the company achieved operating income of 9.055 billion yuan, and the gross profit margin of its main business was 60.35%, an increase of 1.76% year-on-year. Net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was -492 million yuan, a decrease of 77.65% compared with 2022. The net operating cash flow was 924 million yuan, an increase of 65.84% over the same period last year, and the compound growth rate in the past two years was 136.26%.
The revenue in the first quarter of 2024 was 1.719 billion yuan, down 12.53% year-on-year, the net loss was 110 million yuan, compared with the net loss of 186 million yuan in the same period last year, mainly due to the increase in disposal investment income, and the basic earnings per share loss was 0.02 yuan.
4. WeChat disposed of more than 1,800 articles published on the official account of pirated micro-short drama videos
According to the WeChat announcement, the platform has recently investigated and dealt with illegal handling and pirated content in accordance with laws and regulations, and has dealt with more than 400 pirated film and television resource handling accounts and more than 1,800 official account articles that publish pirated micro-short drama videos.
5. GSR partner Zhang Yutong resigned, or rushed to the dark side of the moon
In February, the Dark Side of the Moon closed a funding round of more than $1 billion from investors including Sequoia China, Xiaohongshu, Meituan and Alibaba. Behind this round of financing, it is inseparable from the help of Zhang Yutong, the former managing partner of GSR Ventures. At present, Zhang Yutong has resigned from Jinshajiang.
In response to this news, a GSR insider confirmed that Zhang Yutong has resigned from GSR Ventures. However, an official source on the dark side of the moon told "AI Lightyear" that Zhang Yutong did not join the dark side of the moon after he left his job. According to people close to Zhang Yutong, he has his own personal development plan in the future. (AI Lightyear)
6. Fu Sheng: Llama 3 performance exploded, and the open source community will eventually defeat closed source
Meta Platforms released its latest large language model, Llama 3, on Thursday. According to reports, the two smaller versions of the model currently have 80 and 70 billion parameters respectively, and the larger version will have more than 400 billion parameters. In this regard, Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile, released a video to express his views. Fu Sheng said that the performance of Llama 3 is quite explosive, far exceeding the previous generation, not only the same parameters are far exceeded, but the small parameters are better than the previous generation of large parameters.
Fu Sheng believes that the road of computing power and chips, focusing only on parameters, may not be able to go, and AI should not be a game between large companies and giants, but everyone can participate in it, and it can solve problems at low cost. Fu Sheng further said that it is enough for enterprises to apply tens of billions of parameters, and the open source community will become more and more courageous, and finally defeat the closed-source model.
7. Wang Yunpeng, President of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Business Group, issued an internal letter: Radish Run aims to make a profit of 100 million yuan
Wang Yunpeng, vice president of Baidu Group and president of the intelligent driving business group, issued a letter to all employees today. In the letter, Wang Yunpeng said that he would soon release a new hand-car integrated product, which would help 300 million cars lose their mobile phone feet.
At the same time, Wang Yunpeng plans to fight four battles in the future: 1. Reconstruction. The construction of the basic model of autonomous driving (AD-FM) will be completed; The radish runs through the business model, with a target of 100 million revenue and 100 million profit; Intelligent driving and intelligent cabin products should be leading in user experience and cost performance;4. Differentiation. Baidu Maps should continue to press innovation.
8. Zhou Hongyi wants to start a domestic new energy: Xiaopeng drove to the 360th floor overnight
Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360, released a video yesterday, saying that he would sell the Maybach 600 that had been with him for 9 years and replace it with a domestic intelligent networked new energy vehicle, experience the feeling of a new car, and ask netizens to recommend suitable models to him. In addition, he also "euphemistically" said in the video that those friends who make cars in China are willing to take this opportunity to provide him with an experience car, and they will not refuse.
Subsequently, the bosses of various car companies appeared in Zhou Hongyi's comment area. Nezha Automobile CEO Daniel Zhang also spoke in the comment area, saying that Nezha L is good, send the car to the door, that's it. Xiaopeng Motors' official blog post directly said, Mr. Zhou, the car has been delivered to your company's downstairs. And attached is a photo of the Xpeng X9 car parked under the 360 building.
9. Xiaomi's response to the low-end solution of intelligent driving will adopt a three-way bidding: it is completely a rumor
Recently, it has been rumored on the Internet that the low-end solution of Xiaomi's intelligent driving will adopt a three-party bidding method. In response, Xiaomi responded that it was a complete rumor, and said that Xiaomi Smart Drive adopts a full-stack self-developed technology architecture, and there are currently two sets of solutions, including Xiaomi Pilot Pro and Xiaomi Pilot Max, and the two solutions have the same technology.
10. Baidu Intelligent Cloud announced that it supports the full range of Llama3 training inference
Meta has officially released Llama3, a large model with 8B and 70B parameters. Today, Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan large model platform is the first in China to launch a training and inference solution for the full series of versions of Llama3, which is convenient for developers to retrain and build exclusive large models, which is now open for invitation testing.
11. More details of Tesla's layoffs were exposed, and China's layoff ratio exceeded 10%
According to a person familiar with the matter, Tesla's layoffs in China involve multiple departments, and the layoff ratio is far more than the 10% Musk said, some departments will be optimized by 30%-40%, and the layoff ratio of individual departments is even as high as 50%, and other departments are generally around 20%.
It is reported that the sales department is the hardest hit area by layoffs. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the social media platform X at 3 a.m. Beijing time on April 17: "Tesla is streamlining its sales and delivery system, which has become 'complex and inefficient'. (The Paper)
12. Report: Huawei's Pura 70 series shipments are expected to exceed 10 million units in 2024
According to the TechInsights report, Huawei's Pura 70 series is expected to ship more than 10 million units in 2024, and Huawei's smartphone shipments in China will exceed 50 million units in 2024, with a significant increase in market share from 12% in 2023 to 19% in 2024, and regain the top spot in the Chinese market.
13, Nezha Daniel Zhang: The live broadcast of Erlang's legs was compared by a bunch of licking dogs, which made me unable to act
Today, Nezha Automobile CEO Daniel Zhang posted a response to the live broadcast when Erlang's legs were compared with Lei Jun by netizens, Daniel Zhang said: "Work reasons are sedentary all year round, the back is not good, and I often have to apply ointment." A few days ago, I did a live broadcast, more than an hour, in order to be comfortable, leaning on the back of the chair, crossing Erlang's legs, so the live chat is more relaxed and casual. On this point, it was contrasted by a bunch of licking dogs. I really think that being a man, being humble, being righteous, and being yourself is enough for me to act, but I can't do it, and my cultivation is far from enough. ”
—— International News ——
1. The U.S. Congress pushes forward with the bill to sell TikTok's Chinese owners
Efforts to force TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. on Thursday gained support in Congress, with the House of Representatives scheduled for a vote on Saturday and the Senate also holding a crucial vote, Reuters reported. Democrats have expressed support for the move.
The new bill, which would give ByteDance a year to sell short-form video apps, won the support of U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, whose support greatly increased the chances of the measure becoming law. The previous bill, passed by the House of Representatives last month with strong bipartisan support, only allowed ByteDance to sell for six months.
2. Meta released Llama 3 to strengthen the AI war with OpenAI and Google
Meta Platforms released an early version of its latest large language model, Llama 3, on Thursday, as well as an image generator that can update images in real-time as users enter prompts, to catch up with generative AI market leader OpenAI, according to foreign news reports.
The models will be integrated into the virtual assistant Meta AI, which the company positions as the most advanced in the free ranks. The assistant will gain more prominence on Meta's Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger apps, as well as a new standalone website, allowing it to compete more directly with ChatGPT, a groundbreaking hit app from Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
3. Oracle will invest more than $8 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence in Japan
Oracle said on Wednesday that it will invest more than $8 billion over the next 10 years to meet Japan's demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to foreign news reports. Oracle said in a statement that the latest investment will expand the reach of the company's cloud computing service, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), in Japan.
Oracle added that it will also expand its operations and support the engineering team with Japanese personnel.
4. Apple plans to invest more than $250 million to expand its Singapore campus
According to a company statement on April 17, Apple plans to invest more than $250 million to expand its regional campus or business in Ang Mo Kio in Singapore, according to foreign news reports. Apple said that the two buildings acquired in 2022 that are located opposite Apple's existing offices will undergo major upgrades.
It is reported that Apple opened its first factory in Singapore in 1981 and now employs more than 3,600 people, making it Apple's operational center in the region.