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2023 Forbes China's Outstanding Business Women List, Wang Laichun, Dong Mingzhu, and Zhao Ning are among the top three
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Chery executives say Saturday is a normal working day for strugglers to find ways to avoid legal risks
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Netease LOFTER responds to "challenges about the avatar generator": If there is indeed infringement, it will compensate 10,000 pieces
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Xiaobing CEO says that ChatGPT is not disruptive, and quality must be reduced if you want to make money
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The great god Li Mu was revealed to have left his job to devote himself to large-scale model entrepreneurship, and the GitHub project has been launched
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Apple released a new yellow version of the iPhone 14, priced from 5999 yuan
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Google makes progress with big AI model that supports a thousand languages
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticizes Siri and other voice assistants as stupid
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Meta to cut thousands of workers as soon as this week, sources say
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Microsoft's Seattle regional office cuts 689 jobs across multiple departments
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Australian software company Atlassian to cut 500 jobs
domestic news
2023 Forbes China's Outstanding Business Women List, Wang Laichun, Dong Mingzhu, and Zhao Ning are among the top three
On March 7, the 2023 Forbes China Outstanding Business Women List was announced, and Wang Laichun, Dong Mingzhu, and Zhao Ning were among the top three. The list is based on female executives of domestic listed companies, female leaders of multinational companies in China who have been selected into the Forbes Global 2000, and female entrepreneurs of unicorn companies. , market size, industry influence and innovation and other data analysis, and select the final 100 candidates from thousands of candidates.
Chery executives say Saturday is a normal working day for strugglers to find ways to avoid legal risks
Recently, a screenshot of an email circulated on the Internet has sparked heated discussions. The content shows that on February 6, Chery Automobile Gao Xinhua sent an email to reply to the email of R&D attendance statistics, saying: Inform all employees that the struggler is the foundation, and Saturday is the struggler's day. Normal working days must be normal working days for executive leaders, please find a way (to avoid legal risks); learn the spirit of Huawei, let the strugglers work hard, and don't let the strugglers suffer! Find a way from the mechanism.
It is reported that Gaoxinhua is the executive deputy general manager of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. and the dean of the General Institute of Automotive Engineering Technology Research and Development. According to Chery's recruitment official website, Chery said, "The company is like a university campus, which values partnership and has no superiors and subordinates." I have been working all the time, and I have suffered from physical barriers, and my performance is still low.
Netease LOFTER responds to " challenges about the avatar generator ": If there is indeed infringement, it will compensate 10,000 pieces
Xiaobing CEO says that ChatGPT is not disruptive, and quality must be reduced if you want to make money
In a conversation with Sina Finance's "Science and Technology 100 People" column, Li Di, CEO of Xiaobing Company, said that "ChatGPT is not so perfect. It is an important technological breakthrough, but it is not entirely worth being excited about." Li Di pointed out that a major technological breakthrough brought about by ChatGPT is instruct GPT, but the innovation of this technology can only achieve a certain technological breakthrough in the fine-tuning mode after large-scale model training. An engineering breakthrough made in the world is not as disruptive as the outside world imagines.
The great god Li Mu was revealed to have left his job to devote himself to large-scale model entrepreneurship, and the GitHub project has been launched
The former outstanding scientist/VP of Amazon's machine learning department, Alex Smola, and the chief scientist, Li Mu, have resigned from Amazon recently and have established a new direction: to start a business in the direction of large-scale models. According to the WeChat public account "Dear Data", Alex Smola announced a new entrepreneurial project after resigning from Amazon in February 2023 - an artificial intelligence company Boson.ai, as CEO and co-founder. About Boson.ai, Alex Smola's description is: "We are doing a big thing", "If you are interested in a scalable base model, please contact me".
international news
Apple released a new yellow version of the iPhone 14, priced from 5999 yuan
On the evening of March 7, Apple released a yellow version of the new iPhone 14 series. According to Apple's official website, the new yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus will be available for pre-order on March 10, and will be officially released on March 14, with prices starting at 5,999 yuan, the same as before. Except for the color, the overall function of the new phone is the same as that of the iPhone 14 series that has been launched before. Currently, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus offer a total of 6 color schemes, including midnight, starlight, red, blue, purple and a new yellow. Industry insiders pointed out that using new color schemes to stimulate sales has always been Apple's usual method. (upstream news)
Google makes progress with big AI model that supports a thousand languages
Google has announced that it is moving towards its goal of supporting a large AI model in a thousand languages. The search giant announced the 1,000 Languages Initiative in November last year, aiming to build a machine learning model that can translate the 1,000 most commonly spoken languages in the world, bringing greater inclusiveness to residents around the world. On Monday, Google shared more information about its Universal Speech Model (USM). USM is a family of speech models with 2 billion parameters, trained using 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion text sentences in more than 300 languages. Google researchers published the paper "Google USM: Scaling Automatic Speech Recognition Beyond 100 Languages" on the preprint platform arXiv, using the unlabeled multilingual large data set pre-training model, fine-tuning on a smaller labeled data set, making it Can identify underrepresented languages. USM has been used by YouTube to generate closed captions, and it also supports Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), automatically detecting and translating languages, including English, Mandarin, Amharic, Cebuano, Assamese, etc. Now USM supports more than 100 languages and will be used as a basis to build a larger language system. (Solidot)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticizes Siri and other voice assistants as stupid
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has publicly blasted existing voice assistants on the market in an interview, including Microsoft's own Cortana, Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, calling them dumb as a rock.
He bluntly said that whether it is Cortana, Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant, these products should have become front-end technology applications, but they all failed in the end. The important reason why Nadella is no longer satisfied with the voice assistant is ChatGPT. Since the success of this artificial intelligence application in the market, Microsoft has devoted a lot of resources to the development of ChatGPT and the next-generation GPT-4 model. (Financial Association)
Meta to cut thousands of workers as soon as this week, sources say
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a new round of layoffs, with the company slashing thousands of workers as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. The upcoming round of layoffs is driven by financial goals and has nothing to do with the "flattening" goal, the people said. Meta, whose ad revenue has slowed and has shifted focus to Metaverse's virtual reality platform, has been asking directors and vice presidents to draw up a list of employees it can fire, it is reported. This phase of layoffs could be completed by next week, the people said. There is urgency in the plan as those working on the plan want to get it ready before CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes parental leave for his third child, one of the people said.
Microsoft's Seattle regional office cuts 689 jobs across multiple departments
Microsoft laid off 689 employees in the Seattle area on Monday, according to documents released by the Washington State Employment Security Agency. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the layoffs affect Microsoft offices in Redmond, Bellevue and Issaquah. According to The Verge, the most affected departments include Visual Studio for Mac, Entertainment and Devices, Azure Edge + Platform and other departments. Some employees working in the Xbox, Surface and HoloLens divisions were also affected last month. The layoffs are part of Microsoft's plan to cut 10,000 jobs, announced in January, as part of a broader cost-cutting effort. This means that so far, Microsoft has laid off nearly 2,200 workers in the Seattle area, equivalent to 22% of the company's global layoffs. (IT House)
Australian software company Atlassian to cut 500 jobs
Australian software company Atlassian will lay off 5% of its workforce, or about 500 people. Co-founders billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar wrote in an update to employees that the company must rebalance the team to better position the company for long-term growth.