According to the news, Li Auto has started personnel optimization, with a proportion of more than 18%
On May 16, according to the 21st Century Business Herald, it was learned from a number of independent sources that after the May Day holiday, a new round of company-wide personnel optimization is underway within the ideal, and the overall optimization ratio exceeds 18%.
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According to the 2023 financial report, Li Auto has nearly 31,600 people, and according to the optimization ratio, this round of optimization involves more than 5,600 people. (Source: IT House)
The Ascend community responded to Huawei's accusation of falsification at the press conference: it was to read the images generated in real time by external open-source large models
On May 16, the Ascend community issued an official response to the news that the large model generated by Huawei's press conference was suspected of being manually manipulated:
"On May 10, during a technical discussion at the Kunpeng Ascend Developer Conference, we demonstrated the functionality of the mxRAG SDK. This demo is for developers and shows how to develop a RAG app with just a dozen lines of code. The on-site pictures are generated in real time, and the open source model is called. There are expressions such as time.sleep (6) in the code, which are commands to wait to read the images generated by external open-source large models in real time, rather than calling up preset images. All of the demos will be open to the Ascend community, and developers are welcome to use them and provide valuable suggestions." (Source: Titanium Media)
Sony Music Group warns AI companies not to use their own assets for model training
On May 17, according to a new report from Bloomberg, Sony Music Group is notifying major AI companies not to "use the company's assets for model training without authorization".
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Sony Music has sent letters to more than 700 companies to protect its intellectual property, and Sony mentioned that no AI company may use Sony's album cover art, musical compositions, lyrics, and other content without explicit permission.
In the training of AI models, copyright has always been a "big problem", and now the industry holds up a sign claiming that "so-and-so model infringes the copyright of the original author" incidents have been common, referring to IT House's previous report, in April this year, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff proposed a new bill, suggesting that AI companies should make mandatory disclosure of the use of copyrighted training data, otherwise they will face financial penalties. (Source: IT House)
Foreign media: Microsoft is insatiable and falls into the "short-term profit" money eye: burying WP, Win11 is all advertising, and software and hardware are ushering in a crisis of trust
On May 16, it was reported that foreign media Windows Central issued an article today to criticize Microsoft's "series of puzzling decisions and terrible wrongdoings" in recent years, arguing that Microsoft has fallen into the eyes of "insatiable" short-term profits, which has seriously damaged the long-term development of its products.
Foreign media focused on criticizing Microsoft CEO Nadella, believing that he is sacrificing Microsoft's software and hardware correlation to "burn long-term goals for short-term gains", betting Microsoft's own future on "investing" in other companies, after Nadella has buried Microsoft's Windows Phone, and also cut a large number of Surface product lines to improve the company's efficiency, but the related costs have been transferred to developers and enterprise customers for no reason, making them lose a lot of costs, resulting in a loss of trust in Microsoft. (Source: IT House)
Robin Li: 11% of Baidu search results are generated by AI, and search is most likely to become a "killer app" in the AI era
On May 16, Baidu Group released its financial report for the first quarter of 2024 as of March 31 today. According to the data, the company's total revenue in the quarter was 31.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1%.
During the earnings call, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said that 11% of search results on Baidu Search are now generated by AI, making search more accurate, organized and direct to answer user questions.
Robin Li said that Baidu Search's AI restructuring is still in its early stages, and overall, search is most likely to become the Killer App of the AI era. (Source: IT House)
Lei Jun personally driving, Xiaomi SU7 Pro will be live broadcast and publicly unveiled on the 18th
On May 16, Xiaomi officially announced that it will start the live broadcast at 08:30 am on May 18, and the Pro version of the Xiaomi SU7 will also be driven by Lei Jun for the first time.
Xiaomi officially said that at 08:30 in the morning on May 18 (this Saturday), Xiaomi SU7 Pro made its public debut for the first time, and Lei Jun drove and chatted with you while driving! Senior car blogger @ Ah Fei, who said cars, sat in Lei Jun's co-pilot. President of Xiaomi Group @ Lu Weibing and CMO@ Xu Fei of Xiaomi Group jointly broadcast live; Let's experience & chat about Xiaomi SU7Pro. (Source: Mobile China)
JD.com's adjusted net profit for the first quarter of 2024 was 8.9 billion yuan, up 17.2% year-over-year
On May 16, JD.com released its financial report for the first quarter of 2024, with revenue and net profit exceeding market expectations.
According to the financial report, JD.com achieved revenue of 260 billion yuan in the quarter, a year-on-year increase of 7.0%, and the market expects 258.35 billion yuan. Adjusted EBITDA was RMB10.8 billion versus an estimate of RMB9.5 billion. The adjusted net profit in the first quarter was 8.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.2%, and the market expected an adjusted net profit of 7.412 billion yuan.
Among them, the daily 100 categories in commodity revenue resumed rapid growth on the basis of the previous quarter, with a year-on-year revenue growth rate of 8.6%. In the first quarter, service revenue reached RMB51.5 billion, up 8.8% year-on-year, of which logistics and other services revenue increased by 13.8% year-on-year, continuing to maintain strong growth momentum. (Source: IT House)
The first Chinese native DiT architecture, Tencent mixed yuan Wensheng map model is fully open source
The Chinese AI community has ushered in good news: the open-source Wensheng graph large model with the same architecture as Sora is here!
On May 14, Tencent announced that its hybrid Wensheng graph model has been fully upgraded and fully open-sourced, which has been released on the Hugging Face platform and GitHub, including complete models such as model weights, inference codes, and model algorithms, which can be used by enterprises and individual developers for free commercial use.
It is understood that this is the industry's first Chinese native DiT architecture Wensheng diagram open source model, supporting bilingual input and understanding in Chinese and English, with 1.5 billion parameters.
The upgraded hybrid Wensheng diagram large model adopts the same DiT architecture as Sora, that is, the new Hunyuan-DiT architecture, which can not only support Wensheng diagrams, but also serve as the basis for multimodal visual generation such as videos. (Source: Heart of the Machine)
The classic mobile game "Tom Cat" has been materialized, and its AI children's companion robot has carried out industrial design and embedded system development
On May 16, Tom Cat revealed in a telephone exchange meeting that the company's overseas R&D team is further enriching the gameplay of the first AI mobile game "Talking Ben AI" and the personalized interaction ability of the product, and continues to collect data in the test to optimize the database and model capabilities.
In addition, the company's robot R&D team has carried out industrial design and embedded system development for the Tomcat AI child companion robot, and will promote proofing and testing after the main functions of the product are improved.
In March this year, Tomcat also revealed that the company's AI hardware team is developing an AI voice interaction companion robot based on generative artificial intelligence technology, which is expected to bring new growth space to the company's business. (Source: IT House)
Lenovo releases its first AI phone
Finance Associated Press on May 16, Lenovo released the first AI mobile phone moto X50 Ultra, which is equipped with Lenovo Xiaotian AI personal agent (AI Agent), equipped with a 100x zoom periscope light-chasing AI imaging system, and the processor uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen3 flagship platform. (Source: Finance Associated Press)
The wiring of the brain-computer interface "first tester" fell off, and Neuralink is reported to have known about it for a long time
On the 16th, Neuralink disclosed last week that tiny wires in the brain of its first patient had fallen off, and people familiar with the matter revealed that this is an issue that the company has known for years. Neuralink knew from animal tests conducted last year before approval in the U.S. that the wires could retract, removing sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals. But Neuralink believes the risk is low and not worth redesigning, the source added. (Source: Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)