Today's news: Pixar's first large-scale layoffs in ten years; the number of visits to OpenAI's website has increased significantly; Huawei's version of ChatGPT will be released in early July; Apple's Siri may usher in major adjustments; Rothschild's reduction in Nvidia
Pixar lays off staff for the first time in a decade
Disney's Pixar Animation Studio has laid off 75 people, including several executives, and the layoffs accounted for about 6.25% of the total number of employees. This is the studio's first large-scale layoff in ten years.
The layoffs at Pixar actually took place on May 23, as part of Disney CEO Bob Iger's previously announced plan to cut 7,000 jobs and cut costs by $5.5 billion.
Among the dismissed members are "Light Years" producer Galyn Susman and director Angus MacLane, who has 26 years of animation experience and is the creator of "Toys". A member of the senior creative team of well-known films such as "General Mobilization 4" and "Coco".
Although there is no official response yet, it is generally speculated that it may be related to the double failure of their latest movie "Light Years" at the box office and word of mouth. In addition, Michael Agurnek, Pixar's vice president of global communications since 2015, was also fired.
Visits to OpenAI website surge
News on June 5, according to foreign media reports, the explosion of the artificial intelligence chat robot ChatGPT has also pushed its developer OpenAI to the foreground, and the number of visits to the company's website has also increased significantly.
According to the research company's data, in March this year, a total of 847 million unique users visited OpenAI's website, and the number of visits in March increased by 54.21% from the previous month.
The surge in visits in March also pushed OpenAI to become the 18th most visited website in the world that month, entering the top 20 for the first time, an increase of 9 places from the 27th in February.
In fact, the number of visits to the OpenAI website did not increase significantly in March. After the ChatGPT fire, the outside world's attention to them has increased significantly. According to the data of the research company, in February this year, the ranking of OpenAI's website visits has increased significantly, and its ranking in global website visits jumped from 51st in January to 27th.
As the developer of ChatGPT, although this popular application has an iOS version app in May, and an Android version is also under preparation, but in March, ChatGPT is mainly used through the website, and the OpenAI website naturally has a large number of user access.
Foreign media also mentioned in the report that the number of visits to the OpenAI website exceeded 1 billion in February this year, and is expected to reach 1.6 billion in March.
Judging from the agency's data, among the visitors to the OpenAI website, on average, 1 in 9 people comes from the United States, and the United States is also their largest source of visits.
Huawei version of ChatGPT will be released in early July
On June 5th, according to Titanium Media, Huawei will release a multi-modal 100-billion-level large-scale model product called "Pangu Chat" that directly matches ChatGPT.
It is expected that Huawei Pangu Chat will be released and internally tested at the Huawei Cloud Developer Conference held on July 7 this year. The product is mainly for To B/G government and enterprise customers. This means that in the domestic large-scale model arms race, after Ali and Baidu, another important technology giant has entered the game.
Apple Siri may usher in a major adjustment
Apple's WWDC developer conference will be held at 1 am on June 6, Beijing time.
In addition to the much-anticipated iOS 17 operating system, so-called AR/MR headsets and other devices, Ming Kee Mark Gurman broke the news that Apple will also make major adjustments to the voice assistant Siri.
In short, the "Hey siri" wake-up word that has been used for many years will be changed to "Siri", and at the same time, users can follow the command sentence directly after the Siri command.
This seems to mean that Siri's execution efficiency will be greatly improved, replacing the previous cumbersome steps of waking up and then issuing commands.
In addition, Apple is also actively working with three-party partners to empower Siri in more scenarios. Considering that AR/MR devices also rely on the Siri voice assistant, this may be something Apple has to optimize.
In addition, at the upcoming 2023 WWDC event, Apple will also provide some developers and attendees with the opportunity to try new AR/VR headsets.
Rothschild reduces stake in Nvidia
When the world was crazy about AI, the century-old European financial giant, the Rothschild family, quietly lightened their positions. According to foreign media reports, the global chief investment officer (CIO) of Edmond de Rothschild, an asset management agency, revealed that the company has been overweighting Nvidia since the end of 2020, but it has already taken some profits, and its current position is "much smaller." ". Like Edmond de Rothschild, who chose to cash out at a high position, there is also Asworth Damodaran, a well-known contemporary investment valuation expert known as the "Godfather of Valuation".
According to reports, Damodaran has been investing in Nvidia since 2017 and has now sold the company's stock.
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