Google released a new upgraded large model to face off against OpenAI; Meizu released the new Flyme AIOS system

Finishing | Liu Fen ed Jiang Shizhou

【News of large companies】

Apple's Vision Pro has passed China's 3C certification

On May 14, according to the website of the China Quality Certification Center, Apple's headset product VisionPro has passed China's 3C certification, which is a necessary step to carry out sales in the Chinese market. According to media reports, Mark Gurman, a well-known Apple whistleblower, revealed on May 13 local time that Apple is ready to sell the Vision Pro headset in countries and regions outside the United States to boost shipments of this product. Earlier, Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the 2024 annual meeting of the China Development Forum that Apple Vision Pro will land in the Chinese market within this year, and stressed that the company is increasing its R&D investment in China.

OpenAI多位重量级高管离职

According to a Reuters report on May 14, Ilya Sutskweil, co-founder and chief scientist of the Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center (OpenAI) in the United States, said on the 14th that he would leave the company that launched the chat generation pre-trained converter (ChatGPT).

He posted on X (formerly Twitter): "After almost a decade, I decided to leave OpenAI. And explained his departure as, "I'm excited about what I'm going to do next, it's a project that's very meaningful to me personally, and I'll share the details in due course." ”

According to Sam Altman, Jakub Pachocki, who has worked on several important projects, will take over as Chief Scientist and continue to lead OpenAI on its path to AGI. In addition, Jan Leike, co-lead of OpenAI's Super Alignment team, also offered to leave, and used a short "I resigned" as a full expression. The day after the two heavyweights announced their departures, Evan Morikawa, head of OpenAI's application engineering team, also announced his departure on Twitter, saying that he would work on a new project with several friends from Boston Dynamics, Deepmind and other companies.

Baidu: The goal of Radish Run is to break even in Wuhan by the end of 2024

On May 15, Baidu Apollo held Apollo Day 2024 at Wuhan Baidu Radish Express Auto Robot Zhixing Valley. At the event, Baidu Apollo launched the world's first large model Apollo ADFM that supports L4 level autonomous driving, and also announced the launch of unmanned vehicles equipped with Apollo's sixth-generation autonomous driving system solutions, with the cost of the whole vehicle reduced by 60% compared with the fifth-generation car, and the cost was only 200,000 yuan. The first batch of sixth-generation unmanned vehicles delivered will be deployed in Wuhan within the year, and it is expected that they will soon be put into use on the operation line of "Radish Run" in Yongchuan, Chongqing.

Baidu said that with the completion of the construction of the automatic operation network of the Radish Express unmanned vehicle, the operating cost will be reduced by 30%, and the service cost will be reduced by 80% through the continuous optimization of autonomous driving technology and the efficiency of the human cabin. The goal is that by the end of 2024, Carrot Express will break even in Wuhan and fully enter the profitable period in 2025.

Microsoft's AI team in China plans to move abroad? Response: A small percentage of employees have the option of international rotation

According to the surging news report, on May 16, Microsoft China plans to relocate hundreds of employees engaged in AI (artificial intelligence) related businesses to foreign countries, Microsoft responded that a small number of employees of the company have the opportunity to choose international rotation, and employees can choose to accept rotation, or continue to work in their current positions. In the process of operating and managing its global business, Microsoft has always had a mechanism to provide internal rotation opportunities to employees.

BYD entered the car insurance circle and was approved for compulsory insurance qualifications in 8 places

Recently, the State Administration of Financial Supervision and Administration approved BYD P&C Insurance to use the national unified compulsory traffic insurance terms, basic insurance rates and corresponding rate floating coefficients in Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong (excluding Qingdao), Henan, Hunan, Guangdong, Shaanxi and Shenzhen. This is the second substantial progress in BYD's auto insurance business after the approval of its auto insurance business scope in November last year, which means that BYD P&C can provide corresponding compulsory liability insurance products and services in the above eight regions.

Xiaomi responds to SU7 brake failure: it is indeed misidentified by software, which has been fixed

A few days ago, in response to the fact that some users were driving Xiaomi carsSU7, the brakes were suspected of suddenly failing, and the screen then appeared "braking system failure" and other 4 abnormal messages, Wang Hua, general manager of the public relations department of Xiaomi Group, responded that after verification that it was a misidentification of the software, this small probability event has been repaired. Wang Hua said that the service hotline was not connected at that time because it was in the peak period of the incoming line, and there were many queues in the busy line, and there was a situation that was not connected in time, and then the user's exclusive service group responded to the user's needs and arranged roadside rescue support.

零跑与Stellantis合资公司成立

On May 14, Leaprun and Stellantis jointly announced the official establishment of their joint venture "Leaprun International". According to the plan, the joint venture will start sales in Europe first from September 2024; Starting from the fourth quarter of 2024, Leapmotor International will expand into India and Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and South America. By the end of this year, the company plans to expand its sales network in Europe to 200 locations.

【Frontier of Science and Technology】

vivo's self-developed blue heart large model upgrades to "self-developed AI multi-modal large model"

On May 13, vivo updated the three major models of the X100 series at one time - vivo X100 Ultra, vivo X100s, and X100s Pro. It is reported that the selling point of vivo X100 Ultra in imaging is that it is equipped with vivo's self-developed blueprint image chip V3+. In terms of image, vivo X100 Ultra is equipped with Zeiss 200 million APO telephoto, which is a telephoto camera with both high pixels and outsole, and also adds ultrasonic fingerprint unlocking function, supports two-way satellite communication, and connects to the blue sky rescue team with one click.

At the press conference, vivo announced that the self-developed Blue Heart model has upgraded to the "self-developed AI multi-modal model", which allows the large model to contact, perceive and understand the world from the most primitive vision, sound, spatial and other aspects, making the large model more comprehensive, smarter and more powerful. At the same time, the industry's first multi-modal large-model visual assistance product "vivo see-blue heart upgrade" helps visually impaired users better see the world. It is reported that the product is expected to be launched on major Android mainstream app stores in Q4 2024.

OpenAI发布新一代生成模型GPT-4o

On May 14, OpenAI announced the launch of a next-generation generative model, GPT-4o, as well as more features for free in the large model ChatGPT. It is reported that GPT-4o ("o" stands for "omni") is OpenAI's latest flagship model, which not only has the same powerful model capabilities as GPT-4, but also greatly improves the inference speed and generation quality, and can inference audio, vision and text in real time, marking the continuous progress of AI large model applications towards more natural human-computer interaction. According to Bloomberg, Apple is close to striking a deal with OpenAI to include ChatGPT-based artificial intelligence capabilities in iOS 18. This technology is likely to be integrated into the iPhone 16, which is scheduled to be released in September this year.

Google released a new upgraded large model to face off against OpenAI

In the early morning of May 15, Google held its annual Google I/O 2024. At the conference, Google released a number of new products, new tools, and new features, including: the context window of the latest large model Gemini 1.5 Pro has been upgraded from 1 million tokens (minimum input unit) to 2 million, and the lightweight model Gemini 1.5 Flash has been launched; Launched Imagen 3, a new model for Wensheng diagrams, Music AI Sandbox, and Veo, a video generation model. AI is integrated into the search function, and "AI Overview" will be launched in the United States; Released Project Astra, an AI general-purpose agent project, and Gemma2, Google's next-generation open-source model. At the launch event, Google said that it will integrate its latest Gemini AI model into Android devices, starting with the Pixel phone that Google will release later this year.

Meizu released the new Flyme AIOS system

5/16日,星纪魅族发布全新 Flyme AIOS 系统、魅族 21 Note、魅族 LIVE AI 真无线 Hi-Fi 降噪耳机、MYVU 和 PANDAER 等产品。 Enchanted Tribe 21 Note售价2599元起。

Meizu said that in Flyme AIOS, AI has officially entered a new stage of system productivity. Aicy Assistant has Flyme's core intelligent interaction capabilities, and this upgrade adds supernatural timbre and microphone dialogue capabilities, which can provide users with a realistic experience of almost real human dialogue tone, timbre, and sense of language, and achieve more anthropomorphic and colloquial continuous communication. In addition, Meizu uses Flyme AIOS as the core to realize the full-scene interconnection of smartphones, AR smart glasses, smart cars and other terminals, opening up more and more life scenarios.

In February this year, Meizu announced that it would stop the new project of "smart phones" in "All in AI". At the beginning of May, the official website of Xingji Meizu showed that Su Jing replaced Shen Ziyu as CEO.

【Regulatory Dynamics】

Yao Zhenhua and Baoneng Holdings were forced to hold on to 850 million yuan

Tianyancha legal litigation information shows that recently, Yao Zhenhua, Baoneng Holdings (China) Co., Ltd. and its subsidiary Xinjiang Baoneng Investment Co., Ltd. added a new information on the person subject to execution, with an enforcement target of more than 850 million yuan, and the enforcement court is the Longgang Municipal People's Court. Tianyan risk information shows that Baoneng Holdings (China) Co., Ltd. has 19 pieces of information on persons subject to execution, with a total amount of more than 19.4 billion yuan. In addition, the company also has a number of consumption restriction orders, judgment defaulters (lai) and final case information.

Beijing plans to open low-altitude routes

Recently, the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology solicited opinions from the public on the "Beijing Action Plan for Promoting the High-quality Development of Low-altitude Economic Industries (2024-2027) (Draft for Comments)". According to the draft for comments, Beijing will focus on emergency rescue, logistics and distribution, air ferry, intercity commuting, characteristic cultural tourism and other application scenarios, open more than 3 low-altitude routes for the surrounding areas, and basically build a networked infrastructure system and low-altitude application ecology.

99 models will participate in the 2024 new energy vehicle to the countryside activity

On May 15, the five departments issued a notice on carrying out new energy vehicles to the countryside in 2024. It was mentioned that 99 models will participate in the event. It is reported that the time for this rural activity is from May to December 2024. The notice requires that new energy vehicle models suitable for the rural market, with good reputation and reliable quality, be selected to carry out centralized exhibitions, test rides and test drives and other activities to enrich the consumer experience and provide diversified choices; Organize charging and swapping services, financial services such as new energy vehicle underwriting, claims, and credit, as well as after-sales services such as maintenance, to go to the countryside in coordination to make up for the shortcomings of the supporting environment in rural areas; Implement support policies such as car trade-in, county-level charging and swapping facilities to make up for shortcomings, and direct "real money" discounts to consumers.