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HUAWEI CLOUD joins forces with multiple parties to promote digitalization, and iSoftStone is deeply involved
HUAWEI CLOUD announced the launch of the "'Hundreds of Cities and Thousands of Enterprises' Application Modernization China Tour", which aims to promote the process of application modernization and help the high-quality implementation of digital China. iSoftStone is one of the participants in this action, jointly exploring digital solutions that conform to regional characteristics, industry trends, and the status quo of government and enterprises, helping enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, and build long-term competitiveness. iSoftStone is one of the first companies to join Huawei Cloud's "Application Modernization Industry Alliance". Relying on the five expert services of consulting, cloud native, big data, AI+RPA, and security, it helps customers efficiently upgrade their modern architecture.
EU reaches agreement on Artificial Intelligence Law to set copyright rules for generative AI
In recent days, after months of tense negotiations, members of the European Parliament have bridged differences and reached an interim political agreement on the proposal of "The AI Act", requiring companies deploying generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT to disclose the information used to develop their artificial intelligence. system of copyrighted material. The agreement paves the way for what could be the world's first comprehensive AI law, the AI Act. The text of the proposal may still need to be fine-tuned on a technical level ahead of a key committee vote scheduled for May 11, with a plenary vote expected in mid-June.New players are added to the AI track, and the "Visual Resonance" AI painting platform is released
With the release of ChatGPT, the AI (Artificial Intelligence, artificial intelligence) track has been detonated rapidly. Baidu, Byte, Meituan, etc. have launched their own AI products recently, and various AI applications emerge in endlessly. Recently, at the "AI and Design and Visual Resonance AI Painting Platform Conference" held in Guangzhou City of Design, Guangzhou's local AI product "Visual Resonance" AI painting platform was officially released, and the AI track ushered in another new player.
Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the filing and approval of undergraduate majors in ordinary colleges and universities in 2022, with 1,641 new registered majors and 176 approved majors. Among the newly registered undergraduate majors, 77 colleges and universities across the country have newly added digital economy majors, and 59 colleges and universities have newly added artificial intelligence majors. Not long ago, the Shanghai WorldSkills Competition released 52 forward-looking "future occupations" in six major fields, including 5G+ industrial Internet, digital finance, and digital marketing, and nearly half of them are related to the digital economy. The rapid development of the digital economy has brought more possibilities for job creation and innovative employment forms, and more and more new occupations have emerged as the times require.
Recently, at the 6th Digital China Construction Summit, Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Alibaba and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Group, revealed that Alibaba Cloud engineers are experimenting with connecting the large model of Qianwen to industrial robots, and entering a sentence in the DingTalk dialog box Using human language, you can remotely command the robot to work.
Recently, AWE 2023, which has not been seen for two years, detonated the entire technology circle with a gesture of swiping the screen, and it also allowed us to experience the latest developments and innovative achievements of the global consumer electronics industry at zero distance for the first time in a long time. China Household Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE) is sponsored by China Household Electrical Appliances Association, and is listed as the world's top three home appliances and consumer electronics exhibitions together with IFA in Germany and CES in the United States. From April 27th to 30th, the 2023 China Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE 2023) will be held at the Shanghai Pudong New International Expo Center. With 13 exhibition halls and an exhibition scale of 150,000 square meters, more than 1,200 domestic and foreign companies gathered in Shanghai with the world's cutting-edge technologies. The latest achievements in the deep integration of data and other cutting-edge technologies with the home appliance and consumer electronics industries.
As an important component of the AWE ecosystem, the Epland Awards, known as the Oscars in the field of global smart life, unveiled its mystery on April 29. After several rounds of strict screening, Haier Boguan series refrigerator BCD-666WGHFD2WS6U1, Hisense ULED X reference video TV 98U8H, Panasonic Venus series [fiber mirror] luxury washing machine set XQG120-V290+FDC-V1027P, Samsung OLED TV 77S95Z, Sony picture Di series OLED TV XR-65A95K, FOTILE ultra-thin low range hood CXW-358-03–X1S, Casarte Neutron and beauty washing and drying machine C9 Y13BL13L2EU1, Bosch embedded drinking machine WBB8060B1C, TCL49″120 Hz LCD Variable curved surface display, Huawei Whole House Smart Solution 3.0, and 10 products won the Gold Award of Epland.
Michelle, founder and CEO of Xiaojiang IoT, shared how to accelerate the intelligent upgrade of home appliances through OpenCPU technology at the GTIC 2023 Global AIoT Smart Home Summit. Under the background of core shortage, the importance of OpenCPU technology is increasing day by day. As the promoter of the domestic OpenCPU technology, Xiaojiang IoT has accumulated a lot of experience in this technology, helping many smart home appliance manufacturers to alleviate the chip crisis, and bringing commercial value of cost reduction and efficiency increase. In terms of technical advantages, OpenCPU technology has certain advantages in terms of cost, energy consumption, development time cycle, upgrade, integration, and security.
Bolian Liu Zongru: Create a whole-house smart home supermarket, lowering the threshold of whole-house smart
In the past, there have always been some industry pain points in the smart home industry, such as the poor experience of distribution network networking and the high comprehensive cost of intelligence. To solve these difficulties, at the recent GTIC 2023 Global AIoT Smart Home Summit, BroadLink Smart CEO Liu Zongyu said that the emergence of GPT may be a key turning point for smart homes to change from "obedient servants" to "smart housekeepers". At present, BroadLink supports different types of smart home products such as panels, lamps, sensors, security, temperature control, and sunshades, creating a smart self-selected supermarket for the whole house. Users can create 0-threshold independent DIY personalized whole-house scenes, such as creating colorful RGB music rhythms.
Brand Dynamics
The Haoyidian Drying Festival is underway
From April 29th to May 21st, the Haoyidian Drying Festival is in full swing. Love is in the full house, and the whole city is recruiting drying experts to enjoy surprises and gifts to help consumers live a quality life.
Kaidis won the bid for the purchase and installation of the first batch of electronic locks in Shenzhen Talent Housing Group in 2023
Recently, Kaadas officially became a member unit of Shenzhen Apartment Leasing Industry Association; it won the bid for the procurement and installation of the first batch of electronic locks of Shenzhen Talent Housing Group Co., Ltd. in 2023 (batch bidding). Shenzhen Apartment Leasing Industry Association was established in 2018. It was jointly initiated by enterprises and institutions engaged in the housing leasing industry. Member units include national brand apartments, well-known apartments in Shenzhen, professional service companies and supply chain service companies. As the leading brand in the smart lock industry, Kaadas has made a series of new achievements in the field of apartment leasing in recent years, and will play an active role in promoting the common development of smart locks and apartment leasing industries in the future.
From April 26th to 28th, the 2023 Aqara Sales Conference with the theme of "Make Every Connection Matter" was successfully held in Shenzhen. The holding of the 2023 Aqara Sales Conference once again demonstrated Aqara's determination to adhere to global development. Looking forward to the future, Aqara will continue to adhere to the open concept of cooperation, join hands with global partners to continue to speed up, expand its overseas territory, and continue to bring better whole-house smart experience to global users.
Tuya surprises AWE 2023 with a variety of smart black technology exhibits and innovative solutions
Recently, AWE 2023 was held in Shanghai. Tuya Smart, a global IoT development platform service provider, took the theme of "Riding the fire to chase the stars, 'wisdom' is sure to win", and brought a variety of smart black technology exhibits and innovative solutions to the show. As an important development strategy of Tuya this year, PaaS2.0 also officially appeared at the exhibition site, and attracted widespread attention from the industry with its innovative model of "one platform + four major services". At the same time, Tuya has also jointly created a product power brand area with ABB, Philips, Westinghouse and many other Fortune 500 companies, and jointly displayed a series of cutting-edge technology products, bringing a new smart experience to the participants and witnessing the rise of product power.
At the AWE2023 exhibition, Huawei planned a booth with a double-layer space of over 800 square meters to fully display the smart home solutions for smart homes, hotels and other industries, providing an immersive experience, and featuring AITO cars, smart screens, routers, doors, etc. Full-scenario smart products such as locks and storage were unveiled simultaneously. As a forward-looking technology company, Huawei, based on Huawei's 1+2+N whole-house smart solution, combined with the powerful Hongmeng ecosystem, fully empowers the smart home industry, and creates a future space ecology for users to live in and always be new.
data report
In 2022, China's autonomous driving development platform market will grow by 106%
Recently, IDC released the latest research report showing that the market size of China's autonomous driving platform will reach 589 million yuan in 2022, with a growth rate of 106%. The overall market concentration is relatively high, and the market share of enterprises led by cloud computing vendors exceeds 80%. Thanks to the rapid development of the autonomous driving industry, the iteration speed of autonomous driving algorithms and the demand for computing power are showing a rapid increase, significantly promoting market growth.
5G will account for 48% of all cellular connections by 2027
On May 4th, a new report from GlobalData predicts that the global 5G market will continue to grow slowly in the next few years, driven by advanced markets. By 2027, 48% of all cellular connections will be via 5G, a steady increase from 18% at the end of 2022. In numbers, the number of connections will increase from 1.7 billion last year to 5.5 billion in 2027.
China's smart home market is expected to reach US$45.3 billion in three years
According to the report released by statista, the global smart home market is expected to grow from US$126.1 billion in 2022 to US$207.8 billion in 2026, and the smart home market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.30% from 2022 to 2026. Industry insiders believe that with the introduction of a series of national policies for home health care, aging, and double-carbon energy conservation, the integration of smart home and its depth can further promote the overall development of the smart home industry. According to Statista data, it is estimated that by 2026, the domestic smart home market is expected to reach 45.3 billion US dollars. However, the penetration rate of smart home in China is 13%, which is still at a low level, and the penetration rate of most smart home categories is less than 10%.
Global public cloud end-user spending will reach nearly $600 billion in 2023
Global end-user spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 21.7% to $597.3 billion by 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022, according to Gartner's latest forecast. Cloud computing is driving the next phase of digital business, with organizations engaging in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Web3 and the metaverse.
Capital Dynamics
Lanzhi Electronics received a new round of investment of 90 million yuan
Montage Electronics is an integrated circuit design service provider, focusing on providing chip-based solutions for applications such as home smart centers, smart Internet of Things and pay broadcast TV. It has tuners, demodulators and decoder SoCs, etc. product. Recently, Chongqing Road and Bridge intends to acquire a total of not more than 7.61% (before capital increase and dilution) equity of Lanzhi Electronics at a price of RMB 3.40 per 1 yuan of registered capital, and the total amount of equity transferred shall not exceed 90.2856 million yuan.
Paibao Robotics, a developer of intelligent service robots, received tens of millions of yuan in Series B financing
Recently, Guangzhou Yingbo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. announced that it has completed the B-round financing of tens of millions of yuan. The investor is Knowledge City Venture Capital. Series product development and overseas market development.
Recently, Shenqian Youshi completed the A round of financing, with a financing amount of tens of millions! This round of financing was led by Zhejiang Huarui Investment. It is reported that this round of financing will be mainly used for the establishment of Shenqian Youshi production base in Jiaxing Nanhu Industrial Park. Founded in 2019, Shenqian Youshi is an industrial-grade 3D camera manufacturer. Its core products are high-precision online detection 3D cameras and supporting detection and recognition software. It also has WLO (Wafer Level Optics) design, high-precision 3D reconstruction algorithms, and agile software. Deployment and construction of visual solutions and other comprehensive capabilities of industrial 3D vision products.
OpenAI completes $10.3 billion in financing, with a valuation of nearly $30 billion
Recently, OpenAI completed a new round of financing of 10.3 billion US dollars. This is the second time the company has received capital support after receiving an investment of US$3.45 billion on August 31 last year. The funding will be used to further expand its AI infrastructure and pave the way for a more advanced AI ecosystem in the future.