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PART01AI frontier
Apple will not launch AI features at the same time as iOS 18 release
As part of iOS 18, Apple Intelligence may roll out later than expected and not be released with iPhone and iPad software updates, with AI features scheduled to roll out a few weeks after iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 are released in September. However, Apple plans to make Apple Intelligence available to software developers as early as this week through iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1 betas, so that it can be tested early.
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The AI component is valuable only if the application service keeps up
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Nvidia releases software and services aimed at driving the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence
NVIDIA has officially announced Nvidia inference micro services, which can provide necessary assistance for enterprises when using generative AI. This software package can solve many of the problems that are required when using AI for specific purposes. Nvidia plans to charge a fee while providing its services.
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Nvidia's hand stretched out a little longer
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AMD introduces Amuse 2.0, a generative AI tool
AMD has announced the Amuse 2.0 Beta, a new AI image generation tool designed to deliver a seamless and fully localized AI experience. According to reports, this version uses innovative AMD XDNA™ Super Resolution technology, which is expected to increase the output size and speed of AI-generated images.
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Nvidia ran and ran in front, and AMD chased and chased behind
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PART02 Company/People
Country Garden: It plans to make public the offshore debt restructuring agreement in October this year
On the evening of July 29, Country Garden announced that on July 29, the Hong Kong High Court approved the company's application for an extension, and the hearing of the winding-up petition was postponed to January 20, 2025. At the July 29 hearing, Country Garden's lawyers said that the company plans to issue a term sheet for debt restructuring by the end of September this year and make the debt restructuring support agreement (RSA) public in October, according to people familiar with the matter. (The Paper)
Musk: There will be more improvements to the search function on platform X
Mike · Bentz, a former communications policymaker at the United States State Department, posted on July 29 local time that the X platform is increasingly becoming his search engine. Now he can search for keywords on platform X and narrow down the date range with advanced search. Musk replied that there will be more improvements to the search function (of the X platform). (Interface)
It is reported that Intel poached TSMC engineers, and the competition for chip foundry intensified
On July 30, according to Taiwanese media Business Times, Intel is actively poaching TSMC's senior engineers in Arizona to enhance the competitiveness of its chip foundry business. In the face of TSMC's strong posture of entering the United States market, Intel tried to narrow the technology gap with TSMC through this "talent war". (IT House)
iPhone call recording will be notified in advance by netizens complained, customer service responded: In order to protect the privacy of both parties
On the morning of July 30, Apple pushed iOS18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 beta versions for developers, adding a call recording function. It is reported that when you start a call, you can tap the small recording button in the upper left corner of the display, and before the recording starts, all participants will receive a notification that the call is being recorded. #iPhone通话录音会事先通知#也登上热搜. However, many netizens did not approve of such a design, and complained: "It's too embarrassing", "It's really outrageous", "What else do you record if you notify the other party in advance?" It's better not to have this feature." In response to netizens' complaints, Apple's customer service responded to Sina Technology that such a design is to protect the privacy of both parties. (Sina Technology)
Analyst: Tried Tesla's full self-driving feature and almost crashed
Musk said on two recent Tesla earnings calls that investors won't understand the company unless the driver assistance system "Full Self-Driving Capability (FSD)" is used. William Stein, an analyst at Truist Securities who gave Tesla stock a "hold" rating, used this as an opportunity to test-drive one of Tesla's cars and nearly get into a crash. Stein maintains an rating on the stock and an unchanged price target of $215. (Sina Finance)
Apple confirmed that its AI model was trained on Google's custom chip
Apple said on July 29 local time that the artificial intelligence model of its artificial intelligence system "Apple Intelligence" (Apple Intelligence) is pre-trained on processors designed by Google. Apple details in a technical document why the company chose Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) for training. Apple released a preview of "Apple Smart" for some devices on the same day, and it's unclear if Apple will work with Google's latest premium version of Trillium TPU to train Apple AI. (Interface)
Shanghai has added 11 new generative AI services that have been registered
According to the official WeChat account of the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration of China, the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai Municipality has carried out the filing of generative AI services in Shanghai in an orderly manner in accordance with the requirements of the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative AI Services. At the same time, the relevant information is hereby announced to carry out registration work on generative AI services that directly call the capabilities of filed models through APIs or other means, and provide public opinion attributes or social mobilization capabilities to the domestic public. As of July 30, Shanghai has added 11 new generative AI services that have been registered, and a total of 20 generative AI services have been registered.
Taobao has upgraded its "refund-only" recognition model to accurately identify and reject abnormal refund-only behaviors
Recently, Taobao announced that it will optimize the "refund only", upgrade the abnormal behavior recognition model that has received the goods and only refund the goods, and reject the refund only appeal with abnormal behavior. After Taobao's "refund-only" model is upgraded, the legitimate rights and interests of Taobao merchants will be more reliably protected.
Douyin launched the work modification function for the first time, which is limited to modifying illegal content
On July 30th, it was reported that the Douyin Security Center issued an announcement on the launch of the Douyin work modification function yesterday, saying that in order to facilitate creation and avoid affecting the spread of works due to individual violations, Douyin will launch the work modification function from now on. The feature is currently only being tested with creators with more than 100,000 followers and invited creators, and will be gradually rolled out to more users. When a published work is prompted to have content that violates the rules or needs to be optimized, the creator can directly enter the edit page from the notification message to modify the content. If the modification complies with the rules of the platform, the work will return to its normal state.
贾跃亭:FF曾仅一票之差就破产
On July 30, it was reported that today, Jia Yueting released a video recalling that FF had almost gone bankrupt. It is reported that at the most important board meeting at the end of 2022, with only one vote, FF will go bankrupt. Of the 9 directors at that time, 4 voted for bankruptcy and 5 voted for rejecting bankruptcy.
Weilai executives named Li Xiang: The weekly list is more or less a bit of a low-level involution, so stop it
Weilai Assistant Vice President of Brand and Communication @WeilaiMa Lin posted today that the high-level tone was set: Don't engage in low-level involution. The volume weekly list is more or less a bit of a low-level involution.,Think about brother @ Li Xiang Stop it.。 The mission of Chinese automakers today is to achieve technological breakthroughs through R&D, isn't it? Power it up together! In a recent interview after the 2024 NIO Innovation and Technology Day, Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, complained about the "weekly list" phenomenon in the industry, thinking that the monthly sales list will be made public, but this is cruel enough. Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of Weilai, also expressed his anger at the industry weekly list, "Why use my brand to publish the weekly list, can you take our brand out", and even Qin Lihong called on the relevant departments to take care of it. In his opinion, the third-party's weekly list data is not rigorous, and it has not been authorized by NIO.
TSMC: High-NA EUV is still being evaluated, and the timing of adoption is undecided
Zhang Xiaoqiang, senior vice president and deputy co-operating officer of TSMC's overseas operations, said that the cost-effectiveness and scalability of High-NA EUV for future process nodes are still being evaluated, and the current adoption time has not been determined. The A16 process will be mass-produced in the second half of 2026 and may not use high-NA EUV equipment. (Taiwan Electronic Times)
Evergrande Real Estate and others were forced to hold 1.48 billion
On July 30, Tianyancha legal litigation information showed that Evergrande Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. added 9 pieces of information on the person subject to execution on July 29, with a total of more than 1.48 billion yuan, and some of the cases subject to execution also included Evergrande Real Estate Group Changsha Real Estate Co., Ltd., Hunan Xiangtian Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Huaihua Junda Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., etc. (Finance Associated Press)
Kuaishou's entry into the financial industry has made new moves
According to the company's data, Shanghai Shanda Insurance Brokers Co., Ltd. has recently changed its shareholder information, and Hainan Zhonghe Yunlian Technology Co., Ltd. has become the controlling shareholder of the company. From the perspective of equity penetration, Beijing Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd. indirectly holds Hainan Zhonghe Yunlian Technology Co., Ltd. It can be seen that Kuaishou obtained an insurance brokerage license through its subsidiary Curve Holdings and officially entered the insurance industry. (Securities Times)
PART03 Pretty Technology/Cool Products
SK hynix launches world's highest-performance GDDR7, which runs 60% faster than the previous generation
SK hynix today announced the launch of GDDR7, the world's highest-performance next-generation video memory product. SK hynix said, "GDDR is attracting increasing attention from customers around the world for AI applications due to its performance, performance, and high speed dedicated to graphics processing. In line with this trend, the company has developed the latest specification of GDDR7 in March this year, which will be officially launched and will start mass production in the third quarter of this year. "SK hynix's GDDR7 achieves an operating speed of up to 32Gbps (32 gigabytes per second), which is more than 60% faster than the previous generation, and can reach speeds of up to 40Gbps depending on the usage environment. Powered by the latest graphics cards, it can handle more than 1.5 terabytes (terabytes) per second, which is equivalent to 300 Full HD movies (5GB) in 1 second.
China Telecom's Xingchen model can provide full-modal generative AI services to the outside world
Recently, the Beijing Municipal Cyberspace Administration of China issued the "Announcement on the New Filing Information of Beijing Generative Artificial Intelligence Services", and the Xingchen voice model and the Xingchen multimodal model independently developed by China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. and China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Research Institute passed the filing, of which the Xingchen voice model is the first independent voice model in China. So far, the semantic, phonetic, and multimodal large models of the Xingchen large model series have completed the "double filing" of algorithms and services, marking that the Xingchen large model can officially provide complete full-modal generative artificial intelligence services to the public. (SASAC)
Apple has released a preview of AI features mainly for developers
On Monday (July 29), local time, Apple released a preview version of "Apple Intelligence", mainly for developers. Apple released developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 on Monday, allowing users to experience some of the features of Apple Smart, which is currently only available to Apple developers. The Apple Developer Program costs $99 per year. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
Getty and Nvidia launch an AI model for commercial Wensheng diagrams: generate 4 photos in 6 seconds
Getty Images and Nvidia announced yesterday that they jointly launched a secure commercial Wensheng diagram AI model, which can generate 4 photos in 6 seconds, doubling the performance of the previous model and leading the industry. Support for more complex, longer prompts, up to 250 words. According to Getty Images, the new Wensheng diagram AI model is partly based on NVIDIA's Edify model architecture, which is part of NVIDIA's Picasso architecture and builds and deploys generative AI models for visual design. As part of the update, the company has also introduced an AI retouching feature that gives customers the ability to modify generated AI images and existing pre-shot creative images, with new features such as adding or changing individual elements, expanding the canvas, or removing backgrounds with one click. The AI retouching feature is available now on iStock and will soon be available on Getty Images. (IT House)
Meta announces the release of Al Studio based on the Llama 3.1 model
On the 29th, Meta announced the release of a new tool called AlStudio built on the Llama 3.1 model, which enables users to create, share, and design personalized AI chatbots, and users can share their AI characters on platforms including Instagram. (CBN)
PART04 Policies/Perspectives
Shanghai: Supporting AI technology to empower drug research and development
On July 30, the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued several opinions on supporting the innovation and development of the whole chain of the biomedical industry. Opinions put forward to support artificial intelligence technology to empower drug research and development. Make full use of generative artificial intelligence, deep learning and other technologies, focus on new drug target mining and validation, drug discovery and design, new drug screening, drug safety analysis and other links, accelerate the construction of models, algorithms, professional software and other research breakthroughs and common platforms, and carry out intelligent scenario application demonstrations.
OpenAI Board Member: Artificial general intelligence will emerge in five to fifteen years
On July 30, according to The Information, OpenAI board member Adam D'Angelo said that general artificial intelligence is likely to appear in 5 to 15 years. D'Angello, who is also the co-founder and CEO of Quora, a social Q&A site, made the remarks at an event in San Francisco last week, the news outlet added. D'Angelo, 41, also said that the introduction of artificial general intelligence will have a very, very important change in the world.
Zuckerberg: Smart glasses will be an important form of computer development in the future
Huang asked Zuckerberg about his vision for the future of smart glasses. Zuckerberg said that smart glasses will be an important form of computer development in the future. He believes that smart glasses will be the mobile version of the next-generation computing platform. He referred to Meta's partnership with Ray-Ban and said it was important to deploy AR solutions efficiently. Recently, Francesco Milleri, CEO of Ray-Ban's parent company, European eyewear giant Essilor Luxottica, said that Meta may take a stake in the company. Zuckerberg also previously said that Meta is expected to release new AR smart glasses by the end of this year, whose performance will far exceed the current Ray-Ban products, and is expected to completely subvert traditional glasses. (CBN)
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