Today's news: ChatGPT is about to launch an enterprise version; Microsoft's acquisition of Blizzard was stopped by British regulators; Meituan's first commercial drone flight was officially launched; Alibaba Cloud's largest price cut in history; WeChat applets and video accounts open digital RMB payments
ChatGPT is coming soon to Enterprise Edition
OpenAI said that it is studying the launch of a new enterprise version of ChatGPT subscription service, mainly for professionals who want more control over their data and enterprises seeking to manage end users. "We plan to launch an enterprise version in the coming months," OpenAI describes the subscription as "for professionals who need more control over their data, as well as businesses looking to manage their end users."
In addition, ChatGPT has added some new features to allow users to better protect their privacy. Users can choose to turn off "chat history and training" in the settings of ChatGPT, and export their own data. OpenAI will still save the user's chat history for 30 days to ensure that users will not abuse its system. However, OpenAI will not use this data to further train its models.
Microsoft's acquisition of Blizzard blocked by UK regulators
On April 27, according to foreign media reports, on Wednesday local time, British regulators rejected Microsoft's acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard due to concerns that it would stifle competition in the fast-growing cloud gaming market.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard was first announced in January 2022. The deal, worth $68.7 billion, would be Microsoft's largest ever deal if completed, and by far the largest in video games.
Regulators including the European Commission, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission have launched investigations into the deal because of its size and its potential impact on the gaming industry, concerned that Microsoft Activision Blizzard's hit Call of Duty franchise could be used to gain an unfair competitive advantage.
In February, the CMA launched an investigation into Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. After that, Microsoft "failed to address" the concerns expressed by the CMA.
On Wednesday local time, British regulators rejected the acquisition. The agency said the deal would change the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, resulting in less innovation and less choice for UK gamers.
In this regard, Microsoft expressed its disappointment and said it was not ready to give up. The company has confirmed it will appeal the CMA's decision.
In addition to British regulators, U.S. and European regulators are also scrutinizing the deal over concerns it would give Microsoft control of popular game franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush. .
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an antitrust lawsuit in early December 2022 in an attempt to block the acquisition.
In addition to facing regulatory scrutiny, the deal has also faced strong opposition from rival Sony. Sony argued that the deal would limit player choice and give Microsoft's Xbox, Microsoft's home video game console, an unfair advantage in the industry.
Before the deal, Microsoft already dominated 60% to 70% of the global cloud gaming market with its Xbox and Azure cloud computing infrastructure.
Meituan's first commercial drone route officially launched
It is learned from Jinshan District, Shanghai that on April 26, the first normalized commercial route of Meituan drones in Shanghai was officially launched in Jinshan District.
It is reported that Meituan Shanghai’s first normal commercial route for drones has a total length of 2.2 kilometers and is equipped with 3 drones with a payload of 2.3 kilograms. The maximum flying height of each drone does not exceed 120 meters, and the fastest speed reaches 20m/ s, it can operate normally in the environment of light rain and wind force below level 5, and can deliver meals within 15 minutes.
Alibaba Cloud's largest price cut in history
On April 26, Alibaba Cloud announced the largest price cut in history. The price of core products was cut by 15% to 50% across the board, and the maximum drop of storage products was 50%. Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, said that Alibaba Cloud is committed to "making computing power more inclusive". Use cloud cost to expand the market space of cloud.
Among the products that Alibaba Cloud has reduced prices this time, the price of elastic computing 7th generation instances and Yitian instances has been reduced by up to 20%, storage OSS deep cold archive is 50% lower than the previous lowest price, network load balancing SLB and NAT gateway are reduced by 15%, database RDS The Yitian version has a price reduction of up to 40%, video cloud and CDN price reductions of up to 20%, and secure web application firewall price reductions of up to 30%. The price adjustment will take effect on May 7.
WeChat applets and video accounts open to digital renminbi payments
On April 26, according to WeChat official news, WeChat users can open "WeChat Pay" under the wallet fast payment function in the digital RMB APP from now on, and digital RMB payment will be opened in WeChat applets, video accounts and other scene merchants one after another.
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