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Meituan Wang Xing said that artificial intelligence will change everything, and the internal team is developing AI models
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Bi Ran, Product Leader of Baidu Flying Paddle Platform, Will Resign
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Dai Qionghai, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: The cost of large algorithm models is getting higher and higher, and the cumulative investment in GPT series research exceeds 3 billion US dollars
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360 Zhou Hongyi trains digital humans to replace speeches, saying that he has a sense of crisis and does not want to be killed
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Amazon to close Chinese app store
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Google Search starts adding ChatGPT-like AI-generated results
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Windows users exceed 1 billion worldwide
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Musk responds to mocking BYD years ago
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Microsoft releases its own Linux
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Android 14's new feature is exposed, which can turn the phone into a USB webcam natively
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Nintendo issues DMCA notice to Valve to remove emulator Dolphin from Steam
domestic news
Meituan Wang Xing said that artificial intelligence will change everything, and the internal team is developing AI models
In Meituan’s first quarter 2023 financial report conference call, Meituan founder Wang Xing talked about the recently popular AI model. He said, “AI will change every aspect of our lives, and Meituan is already developing AI models. .The application of AI is not limited to the mobile phone or Internet industry. AI is applied in various ways, and AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) is only a part of it. AIGC will change the basic way people create and generate content, and will also Meituan’s business has been affected.”
Bi Ran, Product Leader of Baidu Flying Paddle Platform, Will Resign
According to media reports, Bi Ran, product manager of Baidu's Paddle Paddle platform, will resign in the near future. Bi Ran is an early member of Baidu and an outstanding architect of Baidu, and now his rank has reached P10. The "Flying Paddle" deep learning platform he is in charge of is an important part of Baidu's AI technology system, supporting the entire process of Wenxin's large model from development and training to inference deployment. It is reported that Bi Ran is still in Baidu's internal employee system. After leaving Baidu, he will plan to join a start-up company. (36kr)
Dai Qionghai, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: The cost of large algorithm models is getting higher and higher, and the cumulative investment in GPT series research exceeds 3 billion US dollars
On May 28, Dai Qionghai, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chairman of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, said at the Zhongguancun Forum that the cost of large algorithm models is becoming increasingly high. The cost of GPT-3 training is about 5 million US dollars per session, and the cumulative investment in GPT series research exceeds 3 billion US dollars. . And the model is getting bigger and bigger, increasing by 20,000 times in 5 years. Tasks are becoming more and more diverse, and one model is open source to handle multiple tasks. The GPT-3 training data is about 450,000 years of text from the People's Daily. (Titanium Media)
360 Zhou Hongyi trains digital humans to replace speeches, saying that he has a sense of crisis and does not want to be killed
At the 2023 Dark Horse AIGC Industry Conference, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, was unable to attend because of his hoarse voice, and trained digital humans instead of speeches. Later, Zhou Hongyi posted on Weibo that the audience thought that digital people were gentler than himself, which made him feel a little bit of a crisis, and he bluntly said that he did not want to be killed by digital people.
international news
Amazon to close Chinese app store
After announcing last year that it would close its Kindle China e-bookstore, Amazon notified users that it would close its Chinese app store. The Amazon Appstore has far fewer users than the e-bookstore. Amazon will stop operating the Kindle e-bookstore in China on June 30, 2023, and will close the Amazon Appstore service on July 17. The Amazon Appstore is currently unavailable for download. An Amazon representative said that the Chinese website Amazon.cn will continue to operate, as will Amazon Global Selling, Amazon Global Store and cloud service Amazon Web Services (AWS). (Solidot)
Google Search starts adding ChatGPT-like AI-generated results
Google Search is starting to push AI-generated results similar to ChatGPT to some users. If you're on the waitlist, it's possible to get access to the feature through the Google mobile app as an early adopter. Unlike the usual Google search results page, the generative AI results will be displayed in a colored box above the normal results. Google will display the collected information in the form of a list. If the search object is a certain type of product, it may also include information from Best Buy Or a purchase link on the manufacturer's website. If this form is promoted, this will be the biggest change in Google search so far, and it may subvert the entire Internet.
Windows users exceed 1 billion worldwide
In Microsoft's latest blog, the company confirmed that Windows has surpassed the 1 billion user mark worldwide. Meanwhile, Windows 11 has been hailed by Microsoft as its most reliable release ever. In the past year alone, Microsoft has achieved a 10% reduction in Windows boot time, a reduction in the impact of starting applications by at least 50%, an average energy saving of 6% and more.
Musk responds to mocking BYD years ago
On Friday, Musk responded to an old video clip posted by a netizen on Twitter. In the video, a reporter asks him what he thinks of BYD's attempt to compete with Tesla, and Musk laughs before saying, "Have you seen their car?" As a competitor, he replied, "Yes."
Today, Musk's views on BYD have reversed. "That was many years ago and their cars are very competitive now," he wrote in reply to the tweet.
Programmer Zone
Microsoft releases its own Linux
During the Microsoft Build 2023 developer conference, Microsoft launched its own Linux operating system, the Azure Linux distribution, dedicated to serving Azure cloud computing. Microsoft's bespoke open source distribution "allows us to have a very clear, very assertive Azure focus and tune the components of the distribution to what we need to support container hosts," said Jim Perrin, principal program manager for Azure Linux at Microsoft. And try to keep dependencies, extra packages, whatnot to a minimum".
Android 14's new feature is exposed, which can turn the phone into a USB webcam natively
Recently, developer Mishaal Rahman dug deep into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code and discovered a new service called "DeviceAsWebcam" that can convert an Android phone into a webcam.
Nintendo issues DMCA notice to Valve to remove emulator Dolphin from Steam
Nintendo has forced Valve to pull a Wii and GameCube emulator from Steam on the grounds that it violated Nintendo's intellectual property. Dolphin Emulator (Dolphin Emulator) is a software capable of running Nintendo GameCube and Wii games on PC, which was originally planned to be released on the Steam platform in the second quarter of 2023. However, according to an update on Dolphin's official website today, Nintendo has issued a DMCA (Digital Copyright Millennium Act) notice to Steam, requesting the removal of Dolphin's Steam page. As a result, Dolphin's release on Steam has been "indefinitely postponed".