Today's headlines
Landing Chinese on the moon by 2030
At 9 a.m. on the 24th, at the press conference of the Shenzhou 18 manned mission held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the spokesman said that the manned lunar exploration project in 2023 will be launched with the approval of the central government, and the overall goal is to achieve Chinese landing on the moon by 2030, and the development and construction of various systems are currently being carried out as planned.
The Long March 10 carrier rocket, the "Mengzhou" manned spacecraft, the "Lanyue" lunar lander, the lunar landing suit and other major flight products have completed the development of the program, and the production of sample products and various tests are being carried out in an all-round way. (CCTV News)
The back of the high growth of new energy vehicle premiums: the "three highs" problem needs to be solved urgently
With the rapid development of new energy vehicles, new energy vehicle insurance has become one of the fastest-growing types of insurance in the market. At the same time, the "three highs" (i.e., high premiums, high insurance rates, and high loss ratios) of new energy vehicle insurance are also more prominent. According to statistics, the average premium of new energy vehicles is about 20% higher than that of traditional fuel vehicles, but the operation of new energy vehicle insurance is still facing the practical pressure of losses.
Liu Shulin, President of China Insurance Research Institute Automotive Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., wrote an analysis that the "three highs" of new energy vehicle premiums is a complex and urgent topic, and only through the joint efforts of regulatory authorities, industry associations, insurance companies, car companies and consumers can we find effective solutions and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the new energy vehicle industry. (Securities Times)
By the end of 2023, there will be more than 90,000 hotel chains in mainland China
According to the "2024 China Hotel Industry Development Report" released on the 24th, by the end of 2023, the number of chain hotels in mainland China will be about 90,600, an increase of 28% from 71,000 in 2022. In terms of the number of chain rooms, the hotel chain rate increased from 38.75% last year to 40.95%, of which the chain rate of mid-range and luxury hotels exceeded 55%.
The report also shows that as of December 31, 2023, the total number of accommodation facilities in mainland China is about 610,000, including about 320,000 hotel facilities, and the total number of hotel rooms is about 16.5 million, of which about 6.76 million are chain rooms. Hu Shengyang, executive vice chairman of the Hotel Digital Committee of the China Hotel Association, said that chaining and branding are the general trend of the development of the hotel industry in mainland China. Compared with developed countries, the hotel brand chain rate can reach more than 60%, and the hotel brand space in mainland China is still large. (Xinhua News Agency)
Company figures
The U.S. Senate passed a TikTok-related bill, and the bill is waiting for Biden to sign it, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded
On Tuesday local time, the U.S. Senate passed a bill involving TikTok. According to reports, if U.S. President Joe Biden completes the signing, the terms will give TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, about nine months to sell the app or face a nationwide ban in the United States. At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 24th, a reporter asked a question about this.
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, "My colleagues and I and the spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce have previously clarified China's principled position on the passage of the TikTok-related bill by the US Congress, which you can read. (Huanqiu.com)
Tesla canceled all offers for fresh graduates in China
Tesla Inc. recently laid off more than 10% of its workforce worldwide. At the same time, Tesla canceled all offers (admission notices) for fresh graduates in China.
Netizens who were broken by Tesla posted on social platforms that when the spring recruitment was about to end, they suddenly received a notice from Tesla to withdraw their employment, and Tesla provided a unified monthly salary compensation, but it is very difficult to find a job at this point in time, and it will be even more difficult to find a job once the spring recruitment fails and loses the identity of a fresh graduate. (IT House)
Jia Yueting responded to Zhou Hongyi's questioning
On April 24, Jia Yueting, founder and CPUO@ of FF, responded to @周洪yi through social platforms, saying that it was precisely because he came to the United States to build cars 10 years ago that FF had the ability to become an important bridge for Chinese cars to enter the American market. Now, FF's supply chain is trying to move to China, and it has been looking for opportunities to bring FF 91 back to China for manufacturing.
In the response video, Jia Yueting sat on the back seat of FF 91 and told Zhou Hongyi that it would not be Zhou Hongyi's values to advocate for thieves, and it would not be plagiarism and copycats to young strivers. According to Jia Yueting, although only 11 vehicles have been delivered since the FF was mass-produced, the 11 completely original and innovative spire products that have gone through countless hardships have extraordinary subversive significance. "It is precisely because I came to the United States to build cars ten years ago that we have the ability to become an important bridge for Chinese cars to enter the American market. FF is willing to help Chinese car companies and supply chains quickly enter the U.S. market through its own "Five Decisive Forces" and experience in the United States, while complying with relevant U.S. laws and regulations, and greatly reducing trial and error and time costs.
Tesla's market value rose by 402.8 billion overnight
In the early morning of April 25, Beijing time, the three major U.S. stock indexes closed mixed, with the Nasdaq up 0.1%, the S&P 500 up 0.02%, and the Dow down 0.11%. Tesla rose more than 12%, the largest one-day increase since January 2022, and its market value rose by US$55.6 billion (about 402.8 billion yuan), and the total market value returned to above US$500 billion.
Although Tesla's financial report announced on the 23rd did not meet expectations, it said that it had updated its future model lineup and advanced the launch of new models, and the original announced time was to start production in the second half of 2025. (National Business Daily)
Xiaomi Auto responds to the impact signal of silver plating on glass
On the evening of April 24th, @小米汽车 released Xiaomi SU7 to answer questions from netizens (Episode 27). Regarding "whether the three layers of silver plating on the front windshield will affect the mobile phone signal", Xiaomi Auto said: Xiaomi SU7 has done sufficient mobile phone signal testing and verification during the development process, and it will not interfere with the mobile phone network signal.
This test covers 15 mobile phones of 6 mainstream brands and 3 major operators, and has done a comprehensive test and verification of different vehicle locations and the state of open windows and non-open windows in residential areas, commercial office building areas, large supermarkets, underground garages, urban areas, suburbs, mountainous areas, urban viaducts, tunnels, highways, service areas, national highways, and provincial highways in many places across the country. The conclusion is that all the tested mobile phones passed the test, and there was no impact on the navigation signal, Internet signal, communication signal, and multimedia fluency experience.
Xiaomi's SU7 Wing Board Falling Off Incident
Xiaomi Auto officially released Xiaomi SU7 Q&A with netizens on the 24th (Episode 27), this time the questions mainly revolve around the "SU7 fender falls off after wading at high speed" incident, as well as the Xiaomi SU7 Max air spring gas tank collision protection and exterior mirror anti-glare questions that netizens are concerned about.
In response to the question "What is the reason for the Xiaomi SU7 fender falling off?", Xiaomi said: "After verification, there are only a few cases of vehicles that have the problem of fender falling off, and the problem vehicles have been driving at high speed and wading.
Huawei Pura70 has fixed the AI removal clothing bug
The AI removal feature in Huawei's Pura 70 Ultra phone has been hotly debated recently. The cause of the incident was that some netizens posted on the online platform that they used the AI removal function of the Huawei Pura 70 Ultra mobile phone gallery to smear the clothes on the chest of the girl in the photo.
In the demo, this feature successfully completed the smeared area in the photo and generated the corresponding image. Some netizens holding Huawei Pura 70 Ultra mobile phones also verified this function and found that this function can be re-implemented, so it has sparked heated discussions.
Huawei staff said that this situation is a functional bug and the algorithm has been optimized. At present, blogger @看山的叔叔 posted that the vulnerability fixed by the AI of the Huawei Pura 70 Ultra phone has been fixed, and it will prompt the image to not use the erase function.
The Huawei Supercharging Alliance was established
During Huawei's Smart Electric & Smart Charging Network Strategy and New Product Launch Conference on the 24th, the Huawei Supercharging Alliance was officially established, claiming to provide high-quality charging wherever there is a road. It is reported that the car companies participating in the Huawei Supercharging Alliance include Nezha Automobile, Xpeng Motors, BYD, Beiqi Jihu, AVATAR, Cialis, JAC Automobile Group, Great Wall Motor, Li Auto, GAC Group, Chery Automobile, etc.
It is reported that Xiaomi Auto will launch a pure electric SUV, while planning lower-priced models
It is learned from the industry that Xiaomi's second new car is positioned as a pure electric SUV, and there have been media reports that this car is expected to be launched in the first half of 2025, continuing the design level of the first car, and the initial positioning of the third car is at the level of 150,000 yuan, which is expected to be launched in 2026. (36 Krypton)
Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei Car BU: This year, more than 500,000 cars are expected to use Hongmeng intelligent driving
Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, said at the Huawei Intelligent Vehicle Solution Conference that in the first year of intelligent driving this year, it is expected that more than 500,000 cars will adopt HarmonyOS intelligent driving.
Railway 12306 APP completed the research and development of the core version of the HarmonyOS native application
On April 24, it was reported that the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center and Huawei held a delivery ceremony in Beijing, jointly announcing that the Railway 12306 APP had completed the research and development of the core version of the HarmonyOS native application. At present, the Railway 12306 APP has completed the adaptation of main functions such as ticket reservation, refund, and change in the core version of the HarmonyOS native application. At present, there are more than 700 million registered users on the railway 12306 website, more than 400 million APP installations, more than 26 million peak daily ticket sales, and more than 200 billion clicks.
Great Wall Motors opened a new round of organizational adjustment, Wei Jianjun went to the front of the stage to grasp marketing
Great Wall Motors is undergoing a series of in-depth adjustments to its organizational structure and marketing strategy. According to media reports, in the new round of organizational adjustment of Great Wall Motors, special emphasis is placed on the role of the middle office. The company has expanded the number of middle offices to eight, including the addition of a new media live broadcast operation center and a merchandise management middle office, which are overseen by Li Ruifeng, Great Wall Motor's chief growth officer, and report directly to Wei Jianjun, chairman of Great Wall Motors.
The adjustment of Great Wall Motor involves not only the optimization of the internal management structure, but also the repositioning of the marketing strategy. In terms of marketing, Wei Jianjun personally led the adjustment of this direction, reflecting the company's increased emphasis on marketing activities. (Interface News)
VOYAH is the first to use Huawei's latest intelligent vehicle solution
On April 24, Dongfeng's new energy brand VOYAH announced the details of its cooperation with Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution.
Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, said at the press conference that the VOYAH and Huawei cooperation models will be equipped with Huawei's newly released Qiankun ADS 3.0 system and HarmonyOS intelligent cockpit. The VOYAH Dreamer will be the first model to be equipped with this solution and will be released in the first half of next year. In addition, VOYAH also announced that it will launch a new all-electric SUV this year. (Interface)
Damai.com issued an apology letter: the ticket has been refunded and refunded
At 17:58 on April 22, after receiving feedback from users of the Phoenix Legend Changzhou concert, the company verified the seats as soon as possible.
At 18:47 on April 23, a consensus has been reached with the user, and the corresponding refund process has begun, and the refund has been completed at 10:00 on April 24. We apologize for the obstruction of the view.
Vanke refutes rumors that it plans to transfer more than 8.7 billion project assets
On April 24, it was reported in the market that Vanke planned to transfer its 10 assets in Shenzhen through asset transactions or equity transactions, involving an amount of more than 8.7 billion yuan, and the asset types included hotels, commercial, offices, apartments, etc.
In this regard, Vanke responded to the reporter that the rumor information was untrue, the relevant transaction data and specific assets were inconsistent with the facts, and only some assets were being traded. Vanke said that promoting asset trading is one of the business tasks that Vanke has always attached great importance to, and Vanke is actively promoting asset trading.
Nongfu Spring may return to pure water after 24 years
Recently, a promotional image of Nongfu Spring's pure water products has been circulating on the Internet. According to a number of media reports, a number of employees of Nongfu Spring reposted this promotional image on the circle of friends. As for whether the purified water has been officially launched, pricing, specifications and other issues, Nongfu Spring said on April 24: "There is no confirmed news yet. According to the current publicity map, the specification of this Nongfu Spring green bottled pure water is 550ml, which comes from the natural water source of ten major water sources such as Qiandao Lake, Emei Mountain, and Danjiangkou.
Red Star Capital Bureau noted that this is not the first time Nongfu Spring has entered the purified water market. In fact, in 1999, Nongfu Spring was still producing pure water. It was not until 2000 that the founder of Nongfu Spring, Zhong Sui, opened up a new track of "natural drinking water" and announced that he would no longer produce pure water. Since then, there have been no purified water products on Nongfu Spring's official website and e-commerce platform. (Red Star News)
Zhong Xuegao was forced to pay more than 9.01 million yuan
According to the Qichacha APP, recently, Zhongxuegao Food (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. added information on the person subject to execution, with an enforcement target of more than 9.01 million yuan, and the enforcement court is the People's Court of Danyang City, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province. The risk information shows that the company has 2 pieces of information on the person subject to execution, with a total amount of more than 9.83 million yuan, and 1 piece of information on restricting high consumption. Recently, the founder of Zhong Xuegao said, "Even if you sell sweet potatoes, you have to pay off your debts!", which aroused heated discussions among netizens.
Three squirrels: The New Year's Festival exceeded expectations and issued more than 20 million yuan of excess achievement bonuses to all employees
Zhang Liaoyuan, chairman and CEO of Three Squirrels, publicly stated in the circle of friends that because the New Year's Festival exceeded expectations, the company will issue more than 20 million excess achievement bonuses to all employees. In a letter to all employees, Zhang Liaoyuan said that in the 2024 Goods Festival, the company has achieved good revenue and profit growth, creating the best results in the history of the New Year's Festival.
After discussion between the board of directors and the main product sales management team, the company believes that the results exceed expectations, and hereby distributes an excess performance bonus of more than 20 million.
AI Alerts
Apple releases OpenELM large language model
Prior to WWDC24, Apple released an "efficient language model with an open-source training and inference framework" on the Hugging Face platform called OpenELM. This is an open-source language model, and its source code and pre-trained model weights and training recipes are available in the Apple Github repository.
The official bio translates as follows: "The reproducibility and transparency of large language models are essential to advance open research, ensure the credibility of results, and investigate data and model biases and potential risks." To that end, we released OpenELM, a state-of-the-art open-source language model.
SenseTime: Launched a large model of Ririxin 5.0 Class B shares to resume trading from tomorrow
SenseTime announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that on April 23, the company held a technical exchange day at Shanghai Lingang AIDC, in which the company launched a 600 billion parameter large model (Ririxin 5.0), which has greatly improved its knowledge, mathematics, reasoning and code capabilities, and comprehensively benchmarked GPT-4Turbo in terms of comprehensive performance.
At the same time, the company launched the industry large model all-in-one version and the mobile side large model SDK version. Trading in Class B shares will be suspended from 11:15 a.m. on 24 April 2024. The Company has applied to the Stock Exchange for resumption of trading in Class B shares from 9 a.m. on 25 April 2024.
Demand for AI is booming, and SK hynix plans to invest more than 100 billion yuan to expand production capacity
SK hynix announced today that it plans to expand its production capacity for next-generation DRAM, including HBM, to meet the rapidly growing demand for AI. The company will invest approximately 5.3 trillion won (approximately 27.984 billion yuan) to build an M15X wafer fab as a new DRAM production base.
The company plans to start construction at the end of April, with the aim of completing construction and mass production as soon as possible in November 2025. With the gradual increase in capital investment, the total investment in the construction of the new production base will exceed 20 trillion won (about 105.6 billion yuan) in the long term. (SK hynix official website)
Tencent released a full-stack capability architecture for the automotive industry
Tencent released the "Global Intelligence" solution for the automotive industry, which has been applied in five core scenarios: automotive R&D, production, marketing, service, and enterprise collaborative office. At the same time, Tencent released an upgrade plan in terms of smart car cloud, smart cockpit, and going overseas.
According to the official introduction, Tencent's automotive industry model is being applied with more than a dozen automotive industry partners such as Changan, GAC, FAW Toyota, Dongfeng Lantu, and Yiche. By the end of this year, Tencent's smart car products will be installed in more than 15 million vehicles.
Huawei: 2024 is the first year of large-scale commercial use of intelligent driving
Huawei unveiled a new brand for intelligent driving. Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, said at the press conference that 2024 will be the first year of large-scale commercial use of intelligent driving.
HUAWEI CLOUD: Cultivate 100+ AI innovation companies in Hong Kong within three years
On April 23, at the HUAWEI CLOUD Hong Kong Summit, HUAWEI CLOUD announced that it will work with industry partners such as the Hong Kong Cyberport to establish an AI industry cloud platform and AI empowerment center in Hong Kong to provide partners with cutting-edge technology and skills training and accelerate the development of AI industry clusters.
At the same time, HUAWEI CLOUD Hong Kong AI Acceleration Program was released to jointly accelerate the development of Hong Kong's AI industry, promote AI technology exchanges and cooperation, and cultivate 100+ Hong Kong AI innovation enterprises within three years. (SSE News)
Wang Haifeng, CTO of Baidu: Intelligent twins are an important development direction, which will bring more application explosions
At the 3rd China International Software Development Conference and the 40th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the China Software Industry Association, Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu, pointed out that intelligent twins are an important development direction that will bring more application explosions.
In his view, the agent is to further carry out thinking enhancement training on the basic model, including supervised fine-tuning of the thinking process, preference learning for behavioral decision-making, and reinforcement learning for outcome reflection, so as to obtain the thinking model. Like a human, the agent's thinking model reads instructions, learns how to use tools, and can invoke tools to complete tasks. (Sina Technology)
Capital Insights
AI search engine startup Perplexity is reportedly in a new funding round of at least $250 million
AI search engine startup Perplexity is reportedly in a new funding round of at least $250 million, with a valuation of $2.5 billion to $3 billion. The company has raised two large capital raises in the past four months, and its valuation has leaped.
Shanghai Taisi, a manufacturer of automotive chips, completed a strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan, and Boao Group made a strategic stake
According to the official micro of Taisi Micro, recently, Shanghai Taisi Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of analog-digital hybrid automotive chips, announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan, and the strategic investor in this round is Boao Group.
Technology forward-looking
The new M5 was launched in 24 hours, and 4,031 units were set
According to the data released by Hongmeng Zhixing today, the new M5 has been listed in 24 hours, with a total of 4,031 units. The new M5 was launched yesterday afternoon, offering three configuration models, including two extended range models, priced at 249,800-279,800 yuan, and one pure electric vehicle, priced at 269,800 yuan, all equipped with ADS 2.0 high-end intelligent driving provided by Huawei. (Fast Technology)
Huawei will launch the first high-precision 4D millimeter-wave radar in China
Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, revealed that it will launch the first high-precision 4D millimeter-wave radar in China, and by the end of 2024, it will launch the Parking Pioneer Program, covering 100 commercial parking lots and 2,000 community and office parking lots. At the same time, Huawei also released the Qiankun Skylark model, which can realize the whole process of intelligent diagnosis. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
SpaceX completes the 300th landing of the Falcon rocket
On Tuesday, local time, Musk's SpaceX successfully launched 23 Starlink satellites with a Falcon 9 rocket at the Florida launch site, and achieved the 300th rocket booster landing and recovery after launch.
SpaceX's official account posted on the X platform: "The Falcon 9's first-stage booster landed on the 'Just Read the Instructions' unmanned ship, completing the 300th landing of the Falcon!" Musk retweeted the post and congratulated the SpaceX team. (Global Market Broadcast)