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IDC released the 2022 China's autonomous driving development platform market share rankings: Baidu Apollo, Huawei, and Ali rank among the top three
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Tencent Cloud launches Deepfake self-service creation service
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Ma Yun was hired as a visiting professor by the University of Tokyo
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'Godfather of AI' Jeffrey Hinton leaves Google, warns of tech risks
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Apple may not be able to launch the M3 chip this year
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Apple's self-driving test driver team cuts 56 people, and the number of employees has dropped to 145
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OpenAI completes $10.3 billion in financing at a valuation of $27-29 billion
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Microsoft will push a private version of ChatGPT: the price is 10 times that of the regular version
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Samsung Electronics prohibits employees from using generative AI such as ChatGPT, plans to launch internal tools
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IBM will suspend hiring for 7,800 jobs that could be replaced by AI
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Windows 11's default file system will replace NTFS with ReFS
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CEOs of Google, Microsoft and OpenAI discuss AI at the White House
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sudo and su are being rewritten in Rust
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Debian 12 Bookworm will be released on June 10
domestic news
IDC released the 2022 China's autonomous driving development platform market share rankings: Baidu Apollo, Huawei, and Ali rank among the top three
Recently, the research institution IDC released the report "IDC MarketShare: Autonomous Driving Development Platform Market Share, 2022". According to the report, the market size of China's autonomous driving platform will reach 589 million yuan in 2022. According to IDC, the autonomous driving development platform in this study is an autonomous driving system development platform for auto companies or autonomous driving solution providers, enabling them to quickly build their own autonomous driving systems to meet the needs of technology buyers to process massive amounts of data. , The requirements for the update and iteration of the automatic driving scheme, the platform needs to have: data processing, storage, analysis and processing; algorithm model development tool chain; simulation system and other functional modules. In terms of market share, the overall market concentration is relatively high, and the market share of enterprises dominated by cloud computing vendors exceeds 80%. Among them, Baidu Apollo's autonomous driving cloud share is 34.4%, Huawei's 29.7%, Alibaba's 9.2%, Tencent Cloud's 5.0%, Amazon Cloud Technology's 3.4%, and the remaining manufacturers' share is 18.3%.
Tencent Cloud launches Deepfake self-service creation service
Tencent Cloud has launched a self-service Sapiens production platform. Its Sapiens is actually Deepfake (deep fake technology). It only takes 3 minutes of live-action video and 100 sentences of voice material, and the platform can input audio and text multi-modal data, model and generate high-definition portraits in real time, and create a "digital homo sapiens" similar to real people within 24 hours , and the cost is only one thousand yuan. Chen Lei, general manager of Sapient products, said that Sapient supports the display of half-body and full-body images. Gestures and movements can be flexibly adjusted according to the content, and it also supports arbitrary replacement of recording backgrounds. It is suitable for wider commercial scenarios such as live broadcasting and delivery of goods.
Ma Yun was hired as a visiting professor by the University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo announced that it has hired Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, as a visiting professor at "Tokyo College", a new organization operated by the University of Tokyo. The article stated that Ma Yun is expected to make contributions in three aspects: providing advice and support for the main research topics of the University of Tokyo; conducting joint research and projects with researchers at the University of Tokyo, especially in the fields of sustainable agriculture and food production; Share his rich experience and cutting-edge knowledge in entrepreneurship, business management and innovation with teachers and students of the University of Tokyo. (Daily Economic News)
international news
'Godfather of AI' Jeffrey Hinton leaves Google, warns of tech risks
On May 1, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI", confirmed on the 1st that he had resigned from his job at Google last week and warned of the risks of its long-term promotion of AI technology. . Hinton previously spent nearly a decade at Google. In 2013, he entered Google due to the acquisition of the DNNresearch company he founded. At that time, Hinton's team analyzed millions of photos to create a neural network system that could distinguish pictures of animals and objects, which was regarded as the basis of contemporary AI. In 2018, Hinton received the Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs. In an interview with the media, Hinton expressed his concern that AI may lead to the reduction of certain job opportunities and create a world where many people cannot distinguish what is real, emphasizing that AI is advancing at an alarming rate, far exceeding his and others' expectations. He said that the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence is earlier than he previously thought. "I used to think that the era of AI would not come until 30 to 50 years or even longer, and obviously I no longer think that way." (Interface News)
Apple may not be able to launch an M3 chip this year
According to the whistleblower Revegnus, Apple will not launch Mac or iPad products equipped with M3 chips this year, because TSMC cannot meet Apple's demand due to capacity problems. In February of this year, supply chain-related news claimed that Apple ordered all 3nm products from TSMC. According to previous habits, the A17 chip that the iPhone 15 Pro will use will use a 3nm chip. Apple and TSMC may give priority to the production of A17 chips, while M3 chips have relatively low priority.
Apple's self-driving test driver team cuts 56 people, and the number of employees has dropped to 145
According to a report by foreign technology media MacReports, the number of drivers testing self-driving cars for Apple has recently been reduced by 56 people, and the total number of drivers currently on the job is 145. The report pointed out that since the summer of 2021, Apple has continued to expand the number of self-driving car drivers, from less than 80 to more than 200 in early 2023. According to the documents submitted by Apple to the California DMV, the number of people dropped from 201 at the beginning of this year to 145, a drop of more than 25%. As for the number of cars registered for AV testing, it decreased to 66 on April 28 from 67 last time. Apple has yet to apply to the DMV for driverless AV testing, as Waymo, Cruise, and Nuro have. (IT House)
OpenAI completes $10.3 billion in financing at a valuation of $27-29 billion
According to TechCrunch, OpenAI has completed $10.3 billion in financing, with a valuation of $27 billion to $29 billion. Venture capital firms participating in the round include Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz of California, Thrive of New York, and K2 Global. It is understood that Founders Fund is also involved; the overall investment amount of venture capital is slightly more than 300 million US dollars, and this round of investment belongs to the same round as Microsoft's earlier investment. Earlier this year, Microsoft's investment in OpenAI was said to be around $10 billion. (Financial Association)
Microsoft will push a private version of ChatGPT: the price is 10 times that of the regular version
According to news on May 3, Microsoft plans to launch a private version of ChatGPT, allowing industry users who resist the current hottest artificial intelligence technology to become their customers. It is reported that the purpose of Microsoft's plan is to reassure customers that their secrets will not be leaked to ChatGPT's main system. However, the cost of using this product may be more than 10 times that of the regular version of ChatGPT. (fast technology)
Samsung Electronics prohibits employees from using generative AI such as ChatGPT, plans to launch internal tools
Samsung Electronics, which has banned employees from using popular generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and Bing due to security concerns, is preparing to roll out internal tools. Internal company memos show that Samsung Electronics is concerned that data transmitted to the generative AI platform is stored on external servers, making it difficult to recover and delete, and may eventually be leaked to other users. Samsung Electronics' new regulations prohibit the use of generative AI systems on company-owned computers, tablets, phones, and internal networks, but it does not affect devices sold to consumers, which are left to users' discretion. Previously, major Wall Street banks such as JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup have banned or restricted the use of ChatGPT. (Financial Association)
IBM will suspend hiring for 7,800 jobs that could be replaced by AI
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview with Bloomberg that the company will suspend recruitment for about 7,800 jobs that could be replaced by AI in the next few years. Krishna said that he would slow down or suspend recruitment for non-customer-facing positions such as HR. He said that within five years, 30% of non-customer-facing positions may be replaced by AI and automation. OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT has sparked speculation that AI can replace white-collar jobs since its launch in November last year. (Solidot)
Windows 11's default file system will replace NTFS with ReFS
The new preview version of Windows 11 contains two striking new features: the kernel integrates libraries written in the Rust language, and the default file system replaces NTFS with ReFS. ReFS stands for Resilient File System, which was released in 2012, but only supports enterprise-level operating systems such as Windows Server, and did not support consumer versions before. It is superior to NTFS (New Technology File System) released in 1993 in many ways, including automatic Integrity checks and data sanitization, avoiding the need to run chkdsk, handling of internal hard drive failures and redundancy, integrated RAID functionality, and more. It will be available to Windows 11 users in the coming months.
CEOs of Google, Microsoft and OpenAI discuss AI at the White House
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a meeting today at the White House with the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to discuss how to develop AI responsibly. White House officials have sought candid conversations with CEOs, especially about the risks posed by current and near-term developments in AI technology. After OpenAI released ChatGPT late last year, generative AI entered the mainstream. Microsoft then began integrating OpenAI's technology into its products. But generative AI has also raised questions and concerns from regulators and tech industry giants.
Programmer Zone
sudo and su are being rewritten in Rust
With funding from Amazon AWS, the tools sudo and su widely used by Unix-like operating systems are being rewritten in the Rust language to improve memory safety of the software, further enhancing the security of the Linux and open source ecosystem. Developed in the 1980s, sudo has become an essential tool over the decades, but it is written in C and suffers from numerous vulnerabilities related to memory safety issues. To ensure the security of critical software and prevent memory safety vulnerabilities, Ferrous Systems and Tweede Golf are jointly porting sudo from C to Rust, and their project sudo-rs is hosted on GitHub. (Solidot)
Debian 12 Bookworm will be released on June 10
The Debian project has announced that the next release, code-named Bookworm, will be released on June 10th. The Debian distribution releases a major version roughly every two years, with the last version, Debian 11 Bullseye, released in August 2021. The soft freeze for Debian 12 is on February 17, 2023, meaning no new packages will be added or removed other than fixes. The full freeze is set for May 24th, and from then on new packages will need to be approved by the release team if they need to go into Bookworm, and only urgent bugfixes will be considered before the official release.