39 million people watched Lei Jun's live test drive; Musk recruits second brain-computer experiment patient; DeepMind launches a large-scale model risk assessment framework

3900 万 3 人围观雷军直播试驾小米 SU7Pro

At 8:30 a.m. on May 18, Lei Jun officially launched a three-and-a-half-hour "test drive" live broadcast, which attracted as many as 39 million onlookers.

The SU7 Pro is a three-and-a-half-hour live broadcast, from Shanghai to Hangzhou, with urban areas and highways, 177km. There are 4 men in the whole car, plus the live broadcast equipment, it is estimated to be 320-330kg. The combined energy consumption is 13.7 kWh/100km.

Lei Jun mentioned in the live broadcast that the intelligent driving of the Xiaomi SU7 has only been on delivery for 44 days, with an activation rate of 82.39% and a mileage of more than 2.58 million kilometers.

When it comes to the intelligent driving solution, Lei Jun responded to the previous rumors that Xiaomi's intelligent driving solution uses a third-party company, "We have set a goal since the beginning, and all of Xiaomi's intelligent driving should be developed by ourselves!" Although the investment is huge, the annual cost is more than $2 billion." (Source: IT House)

NASA and SpaceX successfully tested Starship's lunar lander docking system

NASA and SpaceX have successfully tested the docking system for the Artemis III mission, which will enable astronauts to transfer between the Orion spacecraft and the Starship HLS for a lunar landing.

The system is based on the Dragon 2 docking technology and will facilitate the transfer of future crew to the lunar surface and from lunar orbit to the Gateway space station. More than 200 docking scenarios were tested, demonstrating the system's ability to transfer smoothly. (Source: cnBeta)

According to the news, Volkswagen has given up cooperation with Renault and will independently develop low-cost electric vehicles

It is reported that Volkswagen of Germany has terminated negotiations with Renault of France to jointly develop a low-cost electric vehicle, but Volkswagen's plans to launch a low-cost electric car are still ongoing, and Renault will continue to develop the electric car, which is scheduled to be launched in 2026.

The sources said the two sides "could not reach an agreement". According to another source, the talks were close to success, but Volkswagen eventually decided to develop its own cheap electric car and therefore withdrew from the partnership.

Volkswagen is also reportedly planning to develop a lower-priced electric car, the ID.1, which will cost less than 20,000 euros. The ID.1 will likely inherit some parts of the ID.2all and be equipped with a smaller capacity battery pack (38 or 58 kWh). (Source: IT House)

He Xiaopeng confirmed that the 520 AI Day conference will bring new OTAs, which are expected to support end-to-end large models

On May 18th, it was reported that the Xpeng Motors AI Day event was previously officially announced on May 20th, and the intelligent driving/parking/voice assistant is expected to usher in an upgrade, and He Xiaopeng, the founder of Xpeng Motors, warmed up part of the press conference.

He Xiaopeng revealed that the function "AI driving" that he will use every day to commute to work can achieve one-click work and one-click home, although it is not yet possible to park to parking space, but it is not far away.

In addition, He Xiaopeng said in the video: "I hope that in the next 12 months, Xpeng Motors' AI driving ability and autonomous driving ability will be improved by more than 10 times, instead of 10%."

At the end of the video, He Xiaopeng warmed up part of the content on May 20, he said: "This is the first OTA to land an end-to-end large model in China, this is the OTA that we have turned a small P into a large model, and we will have a huge change from this time on. We'll be bringing you the new Xpeng OTA on 520 AI Day." (Source: IT House)

Musk announced the recruitment of a second patient for the brain-computer interface experiment

On May 19, Musk recently announced that the brain-computer interface company Neuralink is accepting applications for a second implanter, which can realize mind control of mobile phones and computers.

Neuralink announced last year that it would recruit its first human clinical trial participants for patients with quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Patients implanted with Neuralink devices will be able to control computers and mobile phones with their minds alone, which has led to the figurative name of Neuralink's first product, Telepathy. (Source: cnBeta)

Tesla has notified new Model X owners that Steam games are no longer supported

On May 18, Tesla notified the owner when delivering the Model X car that the new car no longer supports Steam Gaming, which means that players no longer support access to the Steam platform to expand the game experience.

The announcement reads: "Tesla is updating your Model X's gaming computer, and your vehicle will no longer be able to play Steam games, and all other entertainment and application features will not be affected." (Source: IT House)

Apple's iOS / iPadOS 17.5 "Photo Resurrection Door" upgrade: Users report that second-hand devices display photos of the original owner

Some users reported on May 15 that after upgrading to the latest iOS 17.5 system, photos deleted from many years ago will appear in the album. According to Reddit users, the bug is far more serious than expected, especially affecting used devices that have already been sold.

The affected iPad is a fourth-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which has been upgraded to the latest operating system update and has been removed as instructed by Apple before being sold.

The Reddit user said that they didn't log back in at any point after deleting the iPad, so it's completely unclear how their old photos reappeared on the device. (Source: IT House)

Google DeepMind unveils a new framework for assessing the dangers of AI models

Google DeepMind released a framework on Friday for peeking inside AI models to determine if they are approaching dangerous capabilities.

The paper, published Friday, describes a process in which DeepMind's models are re-evaluated every time the computing power used to train the model is increased by a factor of six, or fine-tuned for three months. In between assessments, DeepMind will design an early warning assessment.

The papers published so far do not shed much light on the technical details of how these assessments were conducted. For now, it's fair to say that we don't yet know if the current technology will make this framework a success. (Source: cnBeta)

AI-based headphone prototypes filter out noise more carefully and selectively

Researchers at the University of Washington have released a prototype of a headset: instead of simply suppressing ambient sounds, this device uses artificial intelligence to allow you to selectively filter out noise and focus on specific sounds.

The headset has a built-in microphone that feeds audio into a trained neural network that recognizes different types of sounds, such as dog barking, phone ringing, bird calling, and more. With the companion app, you can enable or disable different categories of sounds, letting the headphones filter only the sounds you want.

Best of all, the headphones can also lock on to specific sounds in the background noise. With the click of a button, the headphones will "register" the sound in front of you, amplifying it as the only sound and suppressing all other noise. (Source: cnBeta)