[Juguan 365] News on September 7
Total investment in global AI field plummets
Hello Car Rental opens early bird reservations for vacation
WeChat launches “Tencent Hunyuan Assistant” mini program
Tencent’s “QQ Group Recovery” function offline
eHi Car Rental’s 11,000 directly operated outlets are connected to Didi APP
Total investment in global AI field plummets
According to media reports, in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, technology giant Meta (formerly Facebook) laid off the bioscience ESMFold project team that benchmarked Google's DeepMind AlphaFold and used artificial intelligence (AI) large models to achieve protein prediction.
Although EvolutionaryScale, a new AI protein company founded by the team after leaving Meta, has recently completed over $40 million in seed round financing, reports indicate that Meta’s layoff and dissolution plan means that it has given up on scientific technology research and development and turned to AI business. change.
In fact, although large models have triggered a new round of AI craze around the world in the past nine months, many technology giants are racing to generate generative AI technology. However, in frontier technology fields with long cycles, such as the research and development of new AI drugs, it is difficult for companies to make quick profits in the short term. Coupled with poor performance in the secondary market, investment enthusiasm has gradually cooled down, and major technology companies have reduced pure AI technology research. CB Insights data shows that in the second quarter of this year, total investment in the global AI field plummeted 38% month-on-month.
Vicky QU, Vice President of Baitu Biotech, recently told TMTpost App that it is no longer the time to “burn” investors’ money and then support the listing for 5 years. The comprehensive capabilities of resources, technology, data algorithms, business implementation, etc., It is becoming an important factor in the long-term development of AI companies. .
Hello Car Rental opens early bird reservations for vacation
The Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday is approaching, and long-distance self-driving bookings are becoming popular. According to the official WeChat account of Hello Car Rental, Hello Car Rental has opened early bird reservations for car rentals during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday.
Hello Car Rental introduces that the current platform not only offers 8-day rentals with 3 days of exemption, and 10-day rentals with 4 days of exemption, but also has a daily "surprise box" online, where users have the opportunity to draw large car rental coupons every day, with a maximum discount of 666 yuan.
Data shows that during the summer sales period from July to August this year, the number of vehicle reservations on the Hello Car Rental platform more than doubled. Graduation tours for college students and family tours increased rapidly year-on-year.
For National Day travel, Hello Car Rental expects that car rental and self-driving will once again continue the popularity of the summer and is expected to create a new peak during the year; while Western Sichuan, Yunnan, and Xinjiang, which are suitable for long-distance travel, will usher in a wave of self-driving climax.
WeChat launches “Tencent Hunyuan Assistant” mini program
It is reported that WeChat launched the "Tencent Hunyuan Assistant" applet. According to the applet information, the functions of "Tencent Hunyuan Assistant" include AI question and answer, AI painting, etc.
This is a Tencent Hunyuan large-model multi-modal dialogue Bot product that can answer various questions and handle a variety of tasks, such as: acquiring knowledge, solving mathematical problems, translating, providing travel strategies, work suggestions, etc.
Recently, according to relevant media reports, China Securities Journal learned from Tencent that Tencent will officially release the Hunyuan large model at the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference to be held in early September, but it did not mention whether it will be open to the public.
Previously, Tencent's Hunyuan model has entered the company's internal application testing stage. Tencent's internal businesses and products, such as Tencent Cloud, Tencent Advertising, Tencent Games, Tencent Financial Technology, Tencent Conference, and Tencent Documents, have been connected to the Tencent Hunyuan model. Test and get initial results.
Tencent’s “QQ Group Recovery” function offline
According to the latest announcement from Tencent QQ, the "QQ Group Recovery" function will be officially offline starting from October 13.
Officials recommend that users must carefully confirm when performing operations such as disbanding a group, transferring a group, or deleting group members. Once the operation is performed, it will not be restored.
However, only group recovery-related functions will be offline this time, and other functions will not be affected (restoring friends, etc.).
According to the official introduction, the QQ recovery system is a service provided by Tencent to retrieve QQ contacts and QQ groups, and is free and open to all QQ users.
eHi Car Rental’s 11,000 directly operated outlets are connected to Didi APP
Didi Car Rental and eHi Car Rental jointly announced that they have reached a cooperation and will jointly explore multiple areas such as vehicle rental, outlet services, marketing and promotion, and new business scenarios. Among them, 11,000 direct outlets of eHi Car Rental will be connected to Didi App.
According to reports, after accessing EHI’s self-operated vehicles, EHI’s nationwide outlets, sufficient vehicle sources, high-quality service guarantees, and various convenient services such as pick-up and return of vehicles in other places can more flexibly meet users’ immediate and long-distance travel needs. . The two parties will focus on such needs and conduct more experiments and explorations in scenarios such as commuter car rental and instant cross-city car rental to further enhance the user experience.
Data shows that Didi Car Rental is currently connected to many car rental platforms such as Ctrip, Hello, and Wukong, and is connected to more than 10,000 car dealers in the industry.
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