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- Huawei denies signing mobile phone purchase agreements with multiple governments
- 4Paradigm announces listing plan on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Baidu Wenxin Yiyan software copyright approved
- Tencent’s open source data component Fast-Causal-Inference can be used for distributed vectorized statistical analysis and causal inference.
- With a total prize of 4 million yuan, the youngest gold medalist in the 2023 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition is only 17 years old
- Microsoft confirms chief product officer departure
- It is reported that Open AI is about to launch a multi-modal model to snipe Google Gemini
- Apple’s Vision Pro is here to challenge the iPhone’s status as king: the price exceeds 25,000
- Apple releases official version of iOS 17, adds standby display function
- A Polish company hires an artificial intelligence CEO: on call 24 hours a day, all year round
- CNCF Foundation announces KCL as a sandbox project
- Unity says it's reconsidering new charging model
domestic news
Huawei denies signing mobile phone purchase agreements with multiple governments
Recently, news that "Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other countries have ordered new 5G mobile phones from Huawei" appeared on social platforms and was reposted by multiple platforms and accounts. On the evening of September 18, Huawei refuted the rumors through its official Weibo Blue V account "Juchang Ahua". The following information is all rumors. The rumormongers have no basis and are making trouble out of nothing. They push the same information on multiple platforms and accounts and spread it. Please do not believe it and report it decisively: Russian/Saudi/Venezuela and other governments have signed mobile phone purchase agreements with Huawei.
4Paradigm announces listing plan on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
On September 18, 4Paradigm announced the official launch of its IPO. According to the announcement, 4Paradigm will sell 18.396 million shares, with an offer price range of HK$55.6 to HK$61.16 per share, a corresponding market value range of HK$25.8 billion to HK$28.38 billion, and a total raised capital range of HK$1.022 billion to HK$1.125 billion. . 4Paradigm's IPO will close at noon on September 21, and it plans to be officially listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 28. According to the prospectus, Fourth Paradigm was founded in 2014 by Dai Wenyuan, China’s first ACM programming competition world champion. According to the prospectus, 4Paradigm’s platform provides fast and easy modeling, low-code and no-code development environments. With such a solution, it is convenient for users to quickly deploy various customized artificial intelligence applications on a large scale and reduce the configuration of artificial intelligence experts. (The Paper)
Baidu Wenxin Yiyan software copyright approved
The website of China Copyright Protection Center shows that on September 13, the copyright of "Wenxin Yiyan Software" of Beijing Baidu Netcom Technology Co., Ltd. was registered and approved, and the current version number is V1.0.0. "Wen Xin Yi Yan" is Baidu AI's large language model. (Interface News)
Tencent’s open source data component Fast-Causal-Inference can be used for distributed vectorized statistical analysis and causal inference.
Tencent has open sourced a data science component called Fast-Causal-Inference, which can be used for distributed vectorized statistical analysis and causal inference. This component uses SQL interaction to solve the performance bottleneck of the existing statistical model library under big data, and provides Causal inference capabilities that can execute tens of billions of data in seconds. Currently, this component can be applied to multiple businesses within WeChat.
With a total prize of 4 million yuan, the youngest gold medalist in the 2023 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition is only 17 years old
The results of the 2023 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition were selected on September 16. There were 4 gold medal contestants, 6 silver medal contestants, 10 bronze medal contestants and 50 excellence award contestants. Among them, the youngest gold medalist Qu Xiaoyu is only 17 years old, and the total prize money is as high as 4 million yuan. The competition attracted more than 250,000 participants from more than 70 countries and regions around the world, making it one of the world's largest online mathematics competitions. The Alibaba Charity Foundation hopes to inspire people's enthusiasm for mathematics and basic scientific research through this competition, and encourage more people to love and devote themselves to scientific research.
international news
Microsoft confirms chief product officer departure
Microsoft confirmed on September 18 that Panos Panay, the company's long-serving chief product officer, has resigned. Panay once led Microsoft's Windows team and played a central role in the company's development of hardware businesses such as Surface computers. Microsoft also said that Pavan Davuluri will lead a new team dedicated to "building chips, systems and devices across Windows, clients and clouds for the AI world." Microsoft will also establish a team responsible for network services and Windows experience, focusing on AI-based products.
It is reported that Open AI is about to launch a multi-modal model to snipe Google Gemini
On September 19, according to The Information, a person familiar with the matter revealed that because Google was testing its multi-modal large model Gemini to some companies last week, Open AI hopes to be the first to launch multi-modal functions. When OpenAI launched GPT-4 in March, it offered a preview of multimodal capabilities. However, these features are not provided to other companies except Be My Eyes, which provides services to people who are blind or have low vision. Six months later, Open AI is preparing for a wider rollout of the feature, called GPT-Vision.
What took OpenAI so long? Open AI is primarily concerned about how the new capabilities could be used by bad actors, such as impersonating humans by automatically solving CAPTCHAs, or tracking people through facial recognition. But OpenAI engineers appear to be on the verge of addressing the legal concerns surrounding the new technology. When asked what steps Google was taking to prevent misuse of Gemini, a Google spokesperson noted that the company made a series of commitments in July to ensure responsible AI development across all of its products.
OpenAI may launch a more powerful multi-modal model code-named Gobi after GPT-Vision. Unlike GPT-4, Gobi is trained in multi-modal mode from the beginning. But it seems that such a model has not started training yet. (The Information)
Apple’s Vision Pro is here to challenge the iPhone’s status as king: the price exceeds 25,000
Industry insider Mark Gurman revealed that after the release of the iPhone 15 series, Apple's next most important product is the Vision Pro, which will be Apple's most important product in 2024, priced at US$3,499 (approximately RMB 25,531). Cook has high hopes for this head-mounted device, expecting it to replace the iPhone within the next 10 years.
Apple releases official version of iOS 17, adds standby display function
Apple pushed the official version of iOS 17 early this morning. iOS 17 is compatible with iPhone XR/iPhone XS and higher. iOS 17 expands on last year’s lock screen update, adding interactive widgets and a standby display feature. When the standby display is charging, placing the iPhone horizontally brings a new full-screen experience. Information can be seen at a glance without getting close. iOS 17 brings major updates to calls, messages, and FaceTime. One of the biggest changes in this update is that it allows iPhone users to choose pictures and fonts to change the way calls and incoming calls are displayed, and users can create their own contact posters. (Ai Faner)
A Polish company hires an artificial intelligence CEO: on call 24 hours a day, all year round
The artificial intelligence CEO of Dictador, a Polish alcoholic beverage company, is a busy boss. According to Insider, in August last year, Dictador appointed a robot named Mika as its experimental CEO. Its body shape and height are similar to humans, except that its feet move on wheels. It is understood that it will be responsible for the Arthouse Spirits DAO project and communication with the DAO community on behalf of Dictador. "I don't have weekends, I'm always ready 24/7 to make executive decisions," Mika told Reuters.
Dictador isn't the first company to make a robot its CEO. Last year, NetDragon, a Chinese gaming company, appointed an "artificial intelligence-driven virtual humanoid robot" named Tang Yu as the rotating CEO of its subsidiary NetDragon Network Software in Fujian.
Programmer Zone
CNCF Foundation announces KCL as a sandbox project
On September 12, 2023, the KCL project passed the evaluation of the Technical Supervision Committee of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the world's top open source foundation, and officially became a CNCF sandbox project.
KCL is an open source constraint-based record and function language. It hopes to improve the writing of a large number of complex configurations such as cloud-native Kubernetes configuration scenarios through mature programming language technologies and practices, and is committed to the modularization, scalability and stability of configurations. , create a simpler logic writing experience, and build a simpler automation and ecological integration path, the project official website: https://kcl-lang.io.
Unity says it's reconsidering new charging model
Unity's install-based charging model, Unity Runtime, announced last week has sparked fierce controversy across the gaming industry. The Unity engine is widely used to create mobile and indie games, and the new charging model will charge up to $0.20 per additional install after a game's annual revenue exceeds $200,000 (or $1 million). This charging model may be abused and may mean that mobile game developers are basically working for Unity. The popular business model in the mobile game industry is free plus in-app purchases, which requires a huge amount of installations. Unity encountered boycotts and protests. The company said through its official Twitter/X account that it heard the voice of the community and apologized for the confusion and concern caused by the new policy. It is discussing with team members, the community, customers and partners and will make a decision on the new policy. Change. (Solidot)
