Today's headlines
Zhou Hongyi was furious when he responded to the live broadcast
On May 7, topics such as "Zhou Hongyi's test drive of a flying car could not take off" and "Zhou Hongyi's live broadcast went crazy" once rushed to the hot search. On the evening of the 7th, Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Group, posted on Weibo: I am very happy today, for the first time in my life, I overcame the fear of the unknown, and experienced and learned to fly a small plane into the blue sky. There was also a small episode during the live broadcast. The first half of the conversation was so hilarious that I didn't notice that the air show was going on, and I thought I didn't show the show to the fans. Some netizens said that I was angry, and some netizens said that I was angry because of the "script arrangement", which was harmless.
It is reported that due to the failure to complete the test flight procedures of Xiaopeng Huitian, Zhou Hongyi's flying car that was originally scheduled to be tested could not take off, causing him to fall into a frenzy on the spot during the live broadcast: "Don't record it, aren't you fooling me?" ”
A quick look at Apple's spring conference in 60 seconds: the M4 chip is coming as scheduled, and the new iPad Pro starts at 8999 in China
According to the Financial Associated Press, on Tuesday (May 7) evening, Beijing time, Apple held a special Apple event online, commonly known as the "Spring New Product Launch Conference". Overall, Apple released three major hardware products: iPad Pro, iPad Air, and Apple Pencil Pro.
The biggest of these is the new iPad Pro, Apple's most expensive and advanced tablet. The new iPad Pro is available in two sizes, an 11-inch model and a 13-inch model, with the starting price of the 11-inch model starting at 8,999 yuan and the 13-inch model at 11,499 yuan, with four storage options: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB.
According to the official website, the product "combines strong performance into an ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight, and ultra-portable design." "On the outside, the iPad Pro is available in silver and space black, and the body shell is made of 100% recycled aluminum, of which the 13-inch thickness is 5.1mm, which is the thinnest Apple product ever.
The new iPad Pro will be powered by Apple's next-generation processor, the M4 chip, which delivers up to 1.5 times faster CPU performance and 4 times faster 3D rendering performance than the previous iPad Pro's M2.
At the same time, Apple also released a new model of the iPad Air, which is also available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes like the iPad Pro, with a starting price of 4,799 yuan and 6,499 yuan respectively in China, with four color options ranging from space gray, blue, purple and starlight, and four capacity options from 128GB to 1TB.
Apple also launched the Apple Pencil Pro, priced at 999 yuan in China. This product has three new functions: side rotation, light pinching, and haptic feedback. Side-rotation refers to rotating the barrel to change the orientation of the brush tool of different shapes; Gently pinch the tip of the barrel to open the tool tray to switch between tools, line thicknesses and colors.
Huayi Brothers suddenly! Chairman Wang Zhongjun was warned by the China Securities Regulatory Bureau
According to the news on the website of the Zhejiang Securities Regulatory Bureau on May 7, the Zhejiang Securities Regulatory Bureau issued a warning letter to Wang Zhongjun. After investigation, Wang Zhongjun, as the chairman of Huayi Brothers Media Co., Ltd., sold 328,700 shares of the company within 30 days before the company's disclosure of the "2023 Semi-Annual Report", with a turnover of 999,200 yuan.
The above behavior violated the provisions of Article 12 of the Rules for the Management of the Company's Shares Held by Directors, Supervisors and Senior Managers of Listed Companies and Their Changes (CSRC Announcement [2022] No. 19), and the Zhejiang Securities Regulatory Bureau decided to take supervision and management measures against Wang Zhongjun by issuing a warning letter, and recorded it in the integrity file of the securities and futures market. According to public information, Wang Zhongjun currently holds 11.51% of Huayi Brothers' shares, and his salary in 2023 is 2.6 million yuan.
Company figures
Jia Yueting denied that FF had been delisted
On May 7, Jia Yueting posted a video on social platforms, saying, "In order to save FF, I made several decisions. Among them, regarding the rumors of FF's delisting, Jia Yueting said: "FF received a delisting opinion letter from NASDAQ last week, and the company is facing a very large risk of delisting, but it is not as misread by some media that it has been delisted. ”
Not only that, Jia Yueting also mentioned that he will serve as co-CEO with Matthias, sharing responsibilities, and secondly, he will work with the company's management team to take all possible measures to strive to keep the company listed in compliance and accelerate the financing process. Jia Yueting said that he plans to open up the technology chain and value chain of products, technologies, and user ecological construction that have been fully adapted to the ecology of the American automobile industry accumulated in the past ten years to the whole industry.
Jia Yueting said in the video that he will make some money as soon as possible through the commercialization of personal IP, part of which will be used to repay debts, and part of it will be used to subsidize car manufacturing. We will strive to support the basic operations of FF. Confidence for investors and shareholders. (Jia Yueting Weibo)
Faraday Future issued a statement that the board of directors is not considering appointing Jia Yueting as co-CEO
On May 7, Faraday Future issued a statement today saying that the company's board of directors is not currently considering appointing Jia Yueting as the company's co-CEO.
Earlier today, Faraday Future's founder and CPUO (Chief Product and User Officer) Jia Yueting released a video saying that he would consider co-serving as Faraday Future's co-CEO with Matthias Aydt.
He also said that he will start the commercialization of personal IP to make money and make cars, and work with the company's management team to take all feasible measures (including ongoing financing) to strive to keep the company listed in compliance and defend Faraday Future's listing qualifications.
Apple was revealed to have not given up building cars
On May 8, Taiwanese media "Electronic Times" reported that Apple is in cooperation negotiations with an emerging American automaker according to supply chain sources.
Previously, Apple re-evaluated its "Project Titan" project, known as Apple Car, and shifted its resources to generative AI. But Apple has spent an average of $1 billion a year (currently about 7.21 billion yuan) in car research and development over the past decade, which means they may not give up on electric vehicle projects easily.
According to reports, the most likely partner with Apple is the Rivian company. At present, it is only known that Apple is negotiating, but the specific purpose and cooperation method are not yet known. (IT House)
TikTok filed a lawsuit in the United States
On May 7, local time, TikTok filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for the District of Columbia, challenging a law that attempts to ban the social software nationwide. On April 24, local time, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill involving TikTok, requiring Chinese technology company ByteDance to divest TikTok in the next 9 months, otherwise the app will be banned in the United States. (Sun, Moon and Tan Tian)
Crazy Brother Yang responds to "electric syllables ripping customers"
On May 7, the topic of "Three Sheep Participated in the Holding of the Electric Music Festival and Was Accused of Slaughtering Customers" appeared on the hot search. According to the pictures posted by netizens, the price of pure water sold at the festival is 20 yuan per cup, and the price of pulse and Red Bull is 30 yuan and 28 yuan per bottle respectively.
On the afternoon of May 7th, Crazy Brother Yang responded to this on Weibo: "We are outsourced to ensure the supply as required, and the 17 booths are unified outside the package (including all snacks, staple food, fried chicken, and drinks) to facilitate management, and this time we found that the price problem has also been adjusted, and the water dropped to 10 yuan at about 7 pm on the 3rd, which is lower than the price of all electric syllables." ”
Crazy Brother Yang also said that in special and specific environments, it is normal for the price to be clearly marked and the price is relatively high, for example, the water in the bar is still sold for dozens of yuan a cup. At the end of the video, Brother Xiao Yang said that the next time the electric music festival and the future electronic music water saving will be free.
Musk shouted at Warren Buffett to "buy a little Tesla stock"
On May 7, it was reported that on Monday, local time, Elon Musk invited billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest in Tesla. The invitation came in a social media reply to a comment by a user who suggested that Buffett sell his stake in Apple and buy Tesla stock instead.
Musk replied in the affirmative and considered it an "obvious move" for Buffett.
360: There is no financial difficulty, and legal responsibility will be resolutely pursued for rumors
On the evening of May 7, 360 announced on Weibo that in order to fully protect national security, the company was successfully delisted from the U.S. stock market in July 2016 and successfully returned to A-shares in February 2018. In order to complete the privatization merger, Tianjin Qixin Zhicheng Technology Co., Ltd., the company's largest shareholder, borrowed US$3 billion (about RMB 20.13 billion at the time) from China Merchants Bank, and pledged its 360 shares.
360 Company said that according to the announcement disclosed by 360, the principal and interest of the loan have been fully repaid as early as June 30, 2023, and the share pledge has been fully released on July 31, 2023. As of March 31, 2024, 360 held about 26.9 billion yuan of monetary funds, and there was no financial difficulty. For false rumors fabricated out of thin air, 360 will resolutely pursue legal responsibility.
SAIC responds to EU countervailing investigation
On May 7, SAIC Motor said, "We have fully cooperated with the European Commission and have provided all necessary information related to the countervailing investigation in accordance with WTO and EU rules." It is worth pointing out that commercially sensitive information, such as the formulation of the battery, should not fall into this category. Recently, the European Commission has issued a "warning" to the three Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers sampled in the survey, saying that they did not provide "sufficient" information on subsidies, operations and supply chains, which could lead to a "more unfavorable ruling" by the European Union against these companies.
According to the Commission, conducting an investigation without this information would force the Commission to invoke the "Facts Available" rule, which could ultimately lead to higher tariffs on imports. (Beike Finance)
The production and sale of "special liquor" will be strictly prohibited, and the e-commerce platform can no longer find relevant products
On May 7, it was reported that from now on, the State Administration for Market Regulation will solicit opinions on the announcement (draft for comments) on the strict prohibition of the production and sale of "special liquor", mentioning that it is strictly forbidden to produce and sell alcohol products containing similar labels such as "special supply", "exclusive supply" and "internal supply" of party and government organs and the military. Search for "special" and "exclusive" on multiple e-commerce platforms, and "no search results" will be displayed.
Ctrip's customer service team released the policy of returning to their hometown for the Spring Festival
On May 7, Trip.com Group announced that the customer service team fully implemented the policy of returning to their hometown during the Spring Festival, and each customer service team can implement the policy according to actual needs.
Taking the Spring Festival of 2025 as an example, employees can apply to return to their hometowns from December 29, 2024 to February 15, 2025. After becoming the first company in China to implement a hybrid work policy, Ctrip extended hybrid work to an ultra-long period of one and a half months during the Chinese New Year.
Procter & Gamble responds to the appearance of blades inside the Skincare soap
News on May 7, "The Skincare soap I bought had a blade and was scratched by more than ten centimeters when I took a bath." Recently, some netizens posted a video saying that the Shufujia soap bought on the e-commerce platform contained blades and was scratched in the bath. The news quickly sparked heated discussions.
In this regard, as the parent company of Skincare, the relevant staff of Procter & Gamble said that we attach great importance to it and are currently actively communicating with the consumers who posted the above videos to obtain further information and follow up in a timely manner, "We carried out timely investigation of the production process and process as soon as possible, and confirmed that there is no 'blade-like' foreign body in the production process." Regarding the recent incidents, the brand has taken the initiative to report the situation to the local market supervision department and actively cooperated with the relevant fact-finding work. (Zhongxin Finance)
Make a friend was involved in illegal advertising in the live broadcast room and was fined more than 290,000 yuan
According to the company's investigation, recently, Beijing Jiaoyou Digital Technology Co., Ltd. was fined about 292,900 yuan by the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation for publishing advertisements for medical, pharmaceutical and medical devices in violation of the Advertising Law, and confiscated 292,900 yuan of advertising expenses. According to the relevant regulatory authorities, the services promoted in the above-mentioned live broadcast involve the use of medical devices such as ultrasonic scalers, metal dental brackets, customized invisible aligners, fluorinated foams, light-curing composite resins, and dental whitening agents, which are medical service items.
When accepting the entrustment, the parties checked the qualifications, advertising content, and supporting documents of the entities providing the above-mentioned medical services, but did not find that the "Medical Advertisement Review Certificate" submitted by them was not the "Medical Advertisement Review Certificate" of the advertisement in this case, and that the above-mentioned live broadcast had not been reviewed by the advertising review authorities before the publication of the above-mentioned live broadcast, and the approval documents for the publication of advertisements had not been obtained.
Evergrande Real Estate and others were enforced to be 5.6 billion, and the cumulative amount of enforcement exceeded 59.3 billion
Tianyancha legal litigation information shows that on May 6, Evergrande Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. added 8 pieces of information on the person subject to execution, with a total of more than 5.616 billion yuan in the subject matter of enforcement, involving private lending disputes, bill recourse disputes, construction contract disputes and other cases, and some cases of execution include Zhengzhou Henghong Real Estate Co., Ltd., Panzhihua Evergrande Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., etc., and the enforcement courts include the Intermediate People's Court of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, the Intermediate People's Court of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, Intermediate People's Court of Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, etc.
Tianyan risk information shows that Evergrande Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. has more than 710 pieces of information on persons subject to execution, with a total amount of more than 59.3 billion yuan. In addition, the company also has a number of consumption restriction orders, judgment defaulters (lai) and final case information.
The annual salary of fund managers is capped at 1.2 million? The company said it had "not heard of it at all"
On May 7, it was reported that rumors of salary restrictions in the public offering industry reappeared. There are rumors in the market that the salary limit plan of a bank's public offering has been determined, and the capped annual salary of the fund manager is 1.2 million. Today, after checking this, the person from the public offering company said that "I haven't heard of it at all".
Previously, the previous rumored salary ceiling of the public fund was 3.6 million yuan. However, it is understood that so far no company has officially issued a document to clarify the salary ceiling. (Interface)
It is rumored that 6 people from the public Morgan Stanley Fund have collectively resigned, and there is a high probability that they will be ended
On May 7, it was reported that 6 people from the public Morgan Stanley Fund collectively resigned, and there was a high probability that they would be put in a pot. Recently, Morgan Stanley Fund issued an announcement on the change of senior management, which shows that Wang Hongfei, the company's general manager and chief information officer, will leave on May 1, 2024 for personal reasons, and Zhou Wenxuan, deputy general manager, will be transferred to general manager, and Zhou Han will be appointed chief information officer. During the transition between old and new executives, personnel turmoil is inevitable.
On May 6, a financial blogger broke the news that the channel manager of the Beijing branch of Morgan Stanley Fund had left six people in one go. The blogger guessed: This rhythm is most likely that the team is almost served in one pot.
Amazon plans to invest $9 billion to expand its cloud computing business in Singapore
On May 7, Amazon announced plans to spend $9 billion to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore. The investment, which will be completed over the next four years, will double AmazonWeb Services (AWS) investment in Singapore. Including this investment in Singapore, AWS has announced plans to invest about $35 billion outside the United States this year.
Due to the oxygen safety valve problem, the first manned test flight of the Boeing "Starliner" spacecraft was canceled
On May 7, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on the evening of the 6th local time that the first manned test flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft was canceled, and the team was checking an oxygen safety valve on the Atlas V rocket (AtlasV), and the astronauts had left the spacecraft.
JPMorgan Chase is reported to have launched a new round of layoffs in Asia
On May 7, JPMorgan Chase reported that it launched a new round of layoffs in Asia, cutting at least 7 more investment banking positions, mainly involving vice presidents and manager-level employees in consumption, energy and medical and health care businesses. The company has already made two rounds of layoffs in Asia last year, cutting about 50 positions. J.P. Morgan recently promoted 48 employees to managing director rank in Asia and more than 100 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, despite the start of the layoffs in Asia.
Japan's fifth discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea has been completed
On May 7, Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company said that the first and fifth discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea in fiscal year 2024 ended at noon local time today (May 7), and a total of about 7,800 tons of nuclear-contaminated water were discharged into the sea in the past 17 days.
TEPCO said that in the fifth discharge, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's offshore discharge facility was shut down for about six and a half hours due to a power outage caused by cable damage caused by excavation operations on April 24. TEPCO plans to discharge about 54,600 tons of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea seven times in fiscal 2024, 1.8 times that of fiscal 2023, and the next discharge could begin as early as this month. (CCTV International News)
AI Alerts
Musk said that SpaceX does not use AI and is almost useless in the field of space exploration
On May 7, in an interview on Monday, when asked whether artificial intelligence would accelerate his efforts in space exploration, Musk said: "It's strange that space exploration almost does not use artificial intelligence." So SpaceX basically doesn't use artificial intelligence, and Starlink doesn't use artificial intelligence. I'm not against using it. We haven't seen it any use yet. ”
Musk said he had been testing improved AI language models, asking them questions about space, but the results were disappointing. "For any variant or improvement of AI, I mean, I'm going to ask it questions about the Fermi paradox, questions about rocket engine design, questions about electrochemistry, but so far AI has been terrible at all of them," he said. So, there's still a long way to go. ”
OpenAI executives say GPT today will soon look ridiculous
According to IT House, Brad Lightcarp, chief operating officer of OpenAI, recently said that generative AI chatbots represented by ChatGPT will make breakthroughs in the next 12 months, and the system we are using now will look ridiculously bad at that time.
Lightcarp added that AI tools will be able to take on more complex tasks than ever before, and that AI tools will be "great teammates" for users, helping them deal with "any given problem".
This prediction echoed previous comments by OpenAICEO Sam Altman, who said at the time that GPT-4 was "a bit bad."
The demand for generative AI jobs has skyrocketed by more than 300%, with an annual salary of more than 400,000 yuan
According to the Financial Associated Press, with the explosion of artificial intelligence applications, the recruitment market for generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) is very hot. Data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the demand for generative AI-related jobs increased more than threefold year-on-year. Higher salaries are a big reason for the popularity of generative AI-related jobs.
According to industry insiders, the average annual salary of AIGC-related positions is more than 400,000 yuan, and the annual salary of the top three natural language processing experts, image algorithm engineers and architects is more than 500,000 yuan.
Microsoft's self-developed top-secret weapon with 500 billion parameters exposed! Led by a former Google DeepMind executive
On May 7, foreign media broke the news that Microsoft is developing its first large model MAl-1 with 500 billion parameters. Kevin Scott, Microsoft's chief technology officer, also confirmed that the MAI model is indeed in development. MAI-1 is not inherited from the Inflection model.
However, the training process may use its training data and technology. According to reports, the MAI-1 large model is supervised by Mustafa Suleyman, the former head of Google's DeepMind. (New Zhiyuan)
OpenAI launches detection tool that identifies AI-generated fake images
Microsoft-backed AI startup OpenAI said Tuesday that it will launch a tool that can detect images created by its "text-to-image" generator, Dall-E 3. OpenAI says that in internal tests, the tool was able to correctly identify images created by Dall-E 3 about 98% of the time, and can handle some common modifications such as compression, cropping, and saturation changes.
OpenAI also said it plans to add tamper-proof watermarks to mark digital content such as photos or audio, which will be difficult to remove. (Sina Finance)
SenseTime will release the 5.0 Cantonese version of the RiRixin Large Model
On May 7, it was learned from SenseTime that SenseTime is about to release the Cantonese version of the new model 5.0. It is reported that the Cantonese version of the large model is based on the large device and the capabilities of the RiRixin large model 5.0, which has achieved significant improvements in the quality of language dialogue, corpus quality and information density. In addition, this version inherits the core advantages of the original SenseChatV5. (21 Finance)
0100000 officially announced the one-stop AI work platform "Wanzhi"
It is reported that 0100000 officially announced a one-stop AI work platform - Wanzhi. According to reports, the 010,000 things team uses the self-developed large model basic platform and RAG retrieval enhancement generation technology to carry out special acceleration and optimization for AI Q&A, document reading, PPT and other scenarios, and Wanzhi can complete hundreds of thousands of words of ultra-long document reading within 10 seconds, complete PPT graphic production within 2 minutes, and quickly interpret Chinese and English professional charts on the PC side.
China Unicom launched a large AI model for the Internet of Vehicles
China Unicom recently launched a large AI model of the Internet of Vehicles based on the "Yuanjing Large Model" at the "China Unicom Internet of Vehicles Conference". Lian Shiguo, chief artificial intelligence scientist and chief technical engineer of China Unicom's Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center, introduced that China Unicom has laid out multi-parameter and multi-modal versions in line with the industry, and the performance of the same parameter has reached the advanced level in the industry. (The country is a through train)
Capital Insights
Wayve, a British autonomous driving company, received 7.5 billion yuan in financing, and SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft took action
On May 7, it was reported that Wayve, a British autonomous driving company, announced on its official website that it had received 1.05 billion US dollars (about 7.576 billion yuan) Series C investment, and this round of financing was led by SoftBank Group, followed by the new investor Nvidia and the existing investor Microsoft.
It is reported that this round of financing will support Wayve to fully develop and launch the first embodied intelligent product for mass-produced cars. With the development of Wayve's core AI model, these products will enable OEMs to efficiently upgrade their vehicles to a higher level of autonomous driving, from L2+ to Level 4 autonomous driving.
Mainline Technology, a self-driving truck company, has received hundreds of millions of yuan in financing
Recently, Mainline Technology, a self-driving truck company, officially announced that it had received hundreds of millions of yuan in financing. The funds raised in this round will promote the company's R&D and mass production in the field of core technologies and forward-looking products for autonomous driving.
Humanoid Robotics Company "Accelerated Evolution" completed the Pre-A round of financing, led by Source Code Capital
Recently, the humanoid robot company "Accelerated Evolution" completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing, led by Source Code Capital, followed by Shuimu Venture Capital and Yinggang Capital. This round of financing will be used for small-batch mass production and marketing, talent recruitment, and continuous R&D iteration.
Technology forward-looking
The first flight of the Long March-6C carrier rocket was successful
On May 7, it was reported that today, the mainland successfully launched the Long March-6C carrier rocket at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, carrying the launched Neptune 01 satellite, Zhixing-1C satellite, wide-format optical satellite and high-resolution video satellite successfully entered the predetermined orbit, and the flight test mission was a complete success. (CCTV News)
NIO plans to launch its first mass-market brand model in May
On May 7, it was reported that NIO will launch a new mass-market brand model at the end of this month, and sell a second small electric vehicle in Europe next year, with a price of less than $30,000. According to the report, Nicolas Vincelot, general manager of NIO France, said at the Sino-French Business Forum in Paris that NIO is currently working hard to launch new car brands, which will not be high-end, but obviously still pure electric vehicles, and more suitable for the needs of the European market.
NIO has created a sub-brand, Onvo, to launch a new electric model, the L60. Vincelot expects to announce more details about the brand by the end of this month. The second sub-brand, Firefly, is developing small electric vehicles for urban driving, which are expected to cost under $30,000. Vincelot said the Firefly brand will be launched in 2025. Both brands are targeting the European market.
MediaTek released the Dimensity 9300+ chip
On May 7th, MediaTek released the Dimensity 9300+ chip, which adopts an all-large core CPU architecture, with an octa-core CPU containing 4 Cortex-X4 super cores with a frequency of 3.4 GHz, and 4 Cortex-A720 large cores with a frequency of 2.0GHz.
In terms of generative AI capabilities, the Dimensity 9300+ supports AI speculation and decoding acceleration technology, AI LoRA Fusion 2.0 technology, and AI framework ExecuTorch, providing end-to-end generative AI multimodal innovation such as text, images, and music, and accelerating the development process of end-to-device generative AI applications. MediaTek officially said that the upcoming vivo X100S series mobile phones will debut the Dimensity 9300+ chip.