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- Zhang Yong steps down as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud, and Tsai Chongxin and Wu Yongming take over as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group
- Tang Hong returns to Alibaba Cloud and continues to serve as chief architect
- Huawei has launched a comprehensive plan to fully return to the global mobile phone market
- Didi App has continued to grow since its launch, and the daily average of China Travel exceeded 30 million in June
- Top-of-the-line iPhone 15 Pro Max exposure: 2TB storage space Netizen: Pure IQ tax
- ChatGPT's traffic drops for third month in a row
- Robin Li, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang were named Global AI Leaders by Time Magazine
- Musk says iPhone replacement is nothing new
- Because it is not environmentally friendly, it is reported that Apple may plan to stop producing all silicone accessories
- Russian IT giant Yandex develops GPT large model, saying it is "only a matter of time" to compete with ChatGPT
- Microsoft announces partnership with Paige to build the world's largest image-based AI model
- Who will replace the transformer?
- PowerPoint creator Dennis Austin dies at 76
domestic news
Zhang Yong steps down as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud, and Tsai Chongxin and Wu Yongming take over as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group
On the evening of September 10, Alibaba Group Chairman Tsai Chongxin issued a letter to all employees announcing that the handover of the group's management positions had been completed as planned on that day, and he would take over as chairman of the group's board of directors, while Wu Yongming would become the group CEO. On behalf of Alibaba Group, Tsai Chongxin spoke highly of and thanked Zhang Yong for his efforts and contributions to the company in the past 16 years with the words "remarkable achievements".
Alibaba's board of directors accepted Zhang Yong's request to step down as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud. This position will be concurrently held by group CEO Wu Yongming. Alibaba will invest 1 billion US dollars to support Zhang Yong in setting up a future-oriented technology fund, and at the same time award him the honorary title of "Meritorious Ali Person" in the history of Alibaba. (Tencent Technology)
Tang Hong returns to Alibaba Cloud and continues to serve as chief architect
After Wang Jian, another Alibaba Cloud technology veteran returns. Tang Hong, the former chief architect of Alibaba Cloud, will return to Alibaba Cloud. The position he will hold after his return will be the same as when he left three years ago, and he will still be the chief architect of Alibaba Cloud.
As early as 2010, when Alibaba Cloud was founded, Tang Hong joined the team and worked under Wang Jian, then President of Alibaba Cloud. Tang Hong was a member of the core team of the "Feitian" operating system launched by Alibaba Cloud at that time. Subsequently, Tang Hong took up the position of chief architect of Alibaba Cloud, and was once regarded internally as a strong competitor for Alibaba Cloud's technology leader. (Leifeng.com)
Huawei has launched a comprehensive plan to fully return to the global mobile phone market
The release of Mate 60 Pro is seen as Huawei’s first step back into the mobile phone market. Many people close to Huawei confirmed that Huawei has launched a comprehensive plan to fully return to the global mobile phone market, with the domestic market first and overseas markets later. Multiple technological breakthroughs in the past three years have laid the foundation for this return, and the follow-up will be products, channels and markets.
Didi App has continued to grow since its launch, and the daily average of China Travel exceeded 30 million in June
On September 9, Didi released its second quarter performance report for 2023. In the second quarter, Didi achieved total revenue of 48.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52.6%. In the second quarter of 2023, the total order volume of Didi's core platform was 3.3 billion orders, a year-on-year increase of 45.2%. Among them, the number of travel orders in China was 2.674 billion, a year-on-year increase of 47.7%. Since the launch of the Didi Chuxing APP, China's travel orders have maintained continuous growth. The average daily order volume in the second quarter reached 29.4 million orders, and the average daily order volume in June exceeded 30 million orders. During the same period, the total transaction volume (GTV) of Didi's core platform reached 84 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 54.8%. China's travel GTV was 67.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 60.5%; international business GTV was 16.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.9%.
international news
Top version of iPhone 15 Pro Max exposed: 2TB storage space Netizen: Pure IQ tax
Recently, some Internet whistleblowers have exposed the packaging box of the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The word "2TB" on it is clearly visible. This should be the world's first mass consumer mobile phone that supports 2TB memory. In this regard, some netizens commented that 512GB cannot be used up under normal use, and 2TB seems more like an IQ tax. (Mobile China)
ChatGPT's traffic drops for third month in a row
Monthly visits to OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT fell for the third straight month, according to analytics firm Similarweb. But with the end of the summer vacation and the beginning of the fall semester, the traffic is expected to recover, and some students will turn to ChatGPT to complete their assignments.
Data show that desktop and mobile visits to the ChatGPT website fell 3.2% to 1.43 billion in August, after falling 10% in the previous two months. The amount of time users spend on the site has also fallen since March, from an average of 8.7 minutes previously to 8 minutes in August. But total unique visitors to ChatGPT rose slightly in August, from 180 million to 180.5 million. (GeekSolidot)
Robin Li, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang were named Global AI Leaders by Time Magazine
On the evening of September 7th, Beijing time, Time magazine released the first Top 100 Global AI Figures, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Open AI CEO Sam Altman and others were named global AI leaders.
Musk says iPhone replacement is nothing new
"Apple keeps putting out the same iPhone year after year and people still lose their minds," one X user posted. Musk responded: "I don't really know how my current iPhone is different from previous versions. Camera 10% better?” Some netizens commented, “How about Tesla Model 3 from 2017 to now? For the uninitiated, they are the same as what you see on the iPhone (new colors, new camera, new glass, added features, etc.). For Tesla fans and Elon, this is a major improvement and advancement." (Sina Finance)
Because it is not environmentally friendly, it is reported that Apple may plan to stop producing all silicone accessories
The source "Kosutami" said that Apple plans to stop using silicone and fluororubber accessories and switch to more environmentally friendly next-generation materials, which are expected to include accessories such as iPhone silicone cases, sports wristbands, Solo Loop and AirTag Loop. Sources expect Apple to also introduce new accessories after the Apple Watch Series 9 release, such as a "FineWoven" strap with a magnetic closure, to replace its soon-to-be-retired product.
Russian IT giant Yandex develops GPT large model, saying it is "only a matter of time" to compete with ChatGPT
According to Russian media reports, YandexGPT developed by technology giant Yandex shows greater promise in competition with ChatGPT of OpenAI in the United States. According to Dmitry Masyuk of Yandex, YandexGPT has outperformed ChatGPT version 3.5 in generating Russian content, and even surpassed ChatGPT version 4.0 in several cases. He predicted that it was only a matter of time before YandexGPT would confront its American rivals. (IT Home)
Microsoft announces partnership with Paige to build the world's largest image-based AI model
A few days ago, Microsoft announced that it will cooperate with digital pathology provider Paige to build the world's largest image-based artificial intelligence model for identifying cancer. The AI model is being trained on "unprecedented amounts of data," including billions of images. (IT Home)
Programmer Zone
Who will replace the transformer?
The transformer model paper published by Google researchers in 2017 revolutionized AI research. Today's most popular large models are based on transformers, which have proven to be versatile and can be used in various fields from translation to computer vision and robotics. But transformer also has obvious disadvantages, the biggest disadvantage is high computational cost. Its number of computational steps grows quadratically rather than linearly. Who will replace the transformer? One of the goals of alternatives is to reduce computational cost, requiring fewer parameters. Popular large models such as GPT-3 have 175 billion parameters, and GPT-4 has even more. If alternatives can achieve similar performance with only a billion parameters, then this will undoubtedly promote the popularity of generative AI. (Solidot)
PowerPoint creator Dennis Austin dies at 76
Dennis Austin, the chief developer of the slideshow creation software PowerPoint, died at his home in California on September 1 at the age of 76. His son, Michael Austin, said the cause of death was lung cancer metastasizing to the brain. PowerPoint has played an important role in shaping the way information is communicated in modern society, its ubiquity is almost everywhere, and it is sometimes ridiculed because of this ubiquity. Software company Forethought released PowerPoint in 1987, turning the once labor-intensive creation of slideshows into an effortless job for anyone with a computer. Austin worked with Robert Gaskins, the company executive who conceived the software, to make PowerPoint easy to use. He achieved this by "directly manipulating the interface". Microsoft acquired Forethought for $14 million a few months after PowerPoint launched. By 1993, PowerPoint's sales revenue exceeded $100 million. Microsoft eventually added it to its Office suite of productivity software. Microsoft says users around the world create more than 300 million presentations every day. Both Jobs and Amazon's Bezos hated and banned PowerPoint internally.