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Huawei Cloud fully supports various open source and third-party business models
According to news on September 22, in the keynote speech of Huawei Full Connection Conference 2023, Kang Ning, President of Huawei Cloud Global Ecology Department, said that Huawei Cloud fully supports the Pangu model as well as various open source models and third-party business models. Huawei Cloud is based on Shengteng AI cloud service The computing power base has been natively incubated and adapted to the industry's mainstream large-scale models, providing developers with complete tools and resources. It has also built three major AI cloud computing power centers in Gui'an, Ulanqab, and Wuhu. Huawei Cloud Ascends The AI cloud service Baidu mode zone has been officially launched. Enterprises and developers can directly use the industry's mainstream open source large models, such as LLAMA, GLM, etc.
Sangfor releases version 2.0 of secure GPT, bringing autonomous security operation capabilities online
According to news on September 22, Sangfor released the secure GPT2.0 version. It is understood that Sangfor Security GPT’s technology implementation can be divided into two types: detection large model and operation large model. The upgraded security GPT 2.0 has the ability to independently monitor security operations, improve the detection effect of threats such as 0day vulnerabilities and APT covert intrusions, and achieve 30 seconds to identify and contain threats, reducing the average closed-loop time of a single incident by 96.6%.
SMIC invests in Pedex Semiconductor
According to news on September 22, Tianyancha App showed that Paide Xineng Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. has undergone industrial and commercial changes, and Xinlian Equity Investment (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SMIC, has been added as a shareholder. At the same time, the company’s registered capital has increased from 5.5556 million. RMB increased to RMB 5.848 million. Paide Xineng Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in May this year. Its legal representative is Zhou Zhanrong. Its business scope includes sales of semiconductor discrete devices, sales of power electronic components, integrated circuit chip design and services, software development, etc.
Weimob Group: Annual GMV of all platforms reaches 100 billion yuan
According to news on September 22, at the Weimob 10th Anniversary and Brand Upgrade Conference, Sun Taoyong, Chairman and CEO of Weimob Group, announced the brand upgrade and revealed that the annual GMV of Weimob’s entire platform will reach 100 billion yuan, as of June 2023. As of March 30, among the customers served by Weimeng, the top 100 fashion retail companies accounted for 47%, the top 100 commercial real estate companies accounted for 43%, and the top 100 convenience chain stores accounted for 40%. Data also shows that in the past ten years, Weimob has helped merchants reach 600 million C-end users, created more than 100,000 jobs, and paid more than 700 million yuan in taxes. Sun Taoyong said that in the future, Weimob will stick to the SaaS track and focus on digital transformation to help customers achieve the growth of user assets and business.
Apple urgently releases iPhone15 system update: iOS17 emergency update fixes iPhone15 data migration problem
According to news on September 22, Apple’s iPhone 15/Pro series will start pre-sales on September 15. The national bank price starts from 5,999 yuan and will be officially released at 8:00 on September 22. While Apple released the iOS 17.0.1 update (build number 21A340), it also urgently released the iOS 17.0.2 (build number 21A350) update for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models. It is reported that the iOS 17.0.2 update is only applicable to iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. IT House did not find the update log on Apple’s official website, but according to the screenshots shared by netizens, this update mainly fixes the problem of being unable to transmit data during the setup process.
Microsoft to launch Windows AI Assistant and Office AI apps
According to news on September 22, as the software giant Microsoft continues to integrate generative AI into its products, the company said that it will launch Windows artificial intelligence assistant on September 26 and launch Office AI applications on a large scale on November 1. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at an event in New York on Thursday that the Copilot AI assistant will provide a unified experience across operating systems, applications and devices. For example, Microsoft showed how users can ask Copilot to find flight reservations from text messages. Over the past year, Microsoft has been reorganizing its biggest products around artificial intelligence technology. This work relies heavily on OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology, in which Microsoft has invested $13 billion. Microsoft rivals such as Alphabet Inc. and Salesforce Inc. are developing their own products to help customers use the latest AI technology to speed up and automate some tasks.
Google announces AI assistive features for YouTube
On September 22, Google announced the launch of five new AI-assisted features for YouTube creators: adding AI-generated pictures, polishing videos (adding filters), obtaining video ideas and suggestions based on audience preferences, automatic dubbing, and soundtracks.
Sources say Apple will postpone the release of its self-developed 5G chip to 2025
According to reports on September 22, Apple’s completely independently designed 5G modem will not be ready until at least 2025. Previously, Qualcomm extended an agreement with Apple to continue to provide modem chips for iPhones until 2025. The agreement was originally scheduled to expire at the end of 2023.
Uber Eats to launch AI features and more payment options
According to news on September 21, Uber said that its food delivery platform will accept more payment methods and launch an artificial intelligence robot to help users find deals and explore different food options. Uber Eats will also launch a special section called "Sales Aisle" to showcase promotional offers. New features will be launched this year or 2024.
Cisco announces it will acquire Splunk
According to news on September 21, Cisco announced on September 21 that it had reached a final agreement with Splunk. According to the agreement, Cisco planned to acquire Splunk for US$157 per share in cash. Following the acquisition, Splunk President and CEO Gary Steele will join Cisco's leadership team and report to Cisco Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins.
CCF-Baichuan-InBev Large Model Fund Launch Application
According to news on September 21, CCF joined forces with Beijing Baichuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yingbo Digital Technology Co., Ltd. to jointly establish the "CCF-Baichuan-Yingbo Large Model Fund". This fund focuses on supporting young scholars from domestic and foreign universities and research institutes, aiming to provide young scholars with a high-quality industry-university-research cooperation and academic exchange platform. It is reported that Baichuan Fund plans to set up two major subject directions: basic capabilities of large models and innovative applications: topics on basic capabilities of large models cover large model pre-training, alignment, security, architecture, agents, etc.; innovative applications cover vertical and multi-disciplinary fields. Cross-cutting applications, such as medical, gaming and other vertical fields.
UCloud and Xinwang jointly released "Xinwang Cloud"
According to news on September 21, UCloud has reached a strategic cooperation with the Internet application service provider Beijing Xinwang Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd. to jointly release the exclusive cloud host product "Xinwang Cloud" suitable for website, mall, mini-program and other website building needs. The cloud host will also be deployed in Uker in the "dedicated cloud" mode.
Vivo is about to release a large self-developed AI model, which will be the first to be installed on the original System 4
According to news on September 21, Vivo Vice President and OS Product Vice President Wei Wei revealed that vivo will soon release a self-developed AI large model, which will be the first to be installed on the original System 4. It is said that vivo has been researching artificial intelligence since 2017 and established an AI global research institute.
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou: Huawei currently has 4,700 partners in the Kunpeng field
On September 21, Huawei Vice Chairman, Rotating Chairman, and CFO Meng Wanzhou disclosed at the Huawei Connected Conference 2023 that in the Kunpeng field, Huawei has always adhered to the "partner first" strategy since 2019, and currently has There are 4,700 partners, including 11 complete machine partners, and their shipment volume has reached 95% in 2022. In the Shengteng field, since its release in 2018, Huawei has developed more than 30 hardware partners and more than 1,300 software partners, and has incubated and adapted more than 50 mainstream large-scale models and more than 2,600 AI scenario solutions.
OpenAI launches new version of image generator DALL-E 3, which will be available to ChatGPT paid users in October
On September 21, OpenAI launched an upgraded version of its text-to-image tool DALL-E "DALL-E 3", which OpenAI plans to integrate into the ChatGPT chatbot. The new tool, which is better at understanding user commands and converting text into images, is still in early testing and is only available to a small number of users. OpenAI plans to make it available to paid ChatGPT users in October.
Zhipu AI wholly acquires Lingxin Intelligence, a large model company from Tsinghua University
On September 21, it was reported that Lingxin Intelligence, a Tsinghua-based AI startup, has been fully acquired by Zhipu AI. Its overall valuation at the time of the final transaction was approximately several hundred million yuan. Lingxin Intelligence and Zhipu are both large model companies of Tsinghua University. Public information shows that Zhipu has become a shareholder of Lingxin Intelligence in 2022. In addition, there is also a cooperative relationship between Listening Intelligence and Wisdom Spectrum. Zhipu AI is undoubtedly the most popular investment target in China. It is reported that after Meituan and Alibaba Venture Capital "threw money" with their business, Zhipu AI's market valuation has been around 12 billion yuan. At the same time, Zhipu itself has frequently made moves on this track, investing in several companies such as Wall-Facing Intelligence and Power Law Intelligence. Two of its investments were in Lingxin Intelligence’s angel round and Pre-A round of financing. It is reported that after the completion of the Pre-A round, the market valuation of Lingxin Intelligence is US$100 million.
Kai-fu Lee steps down as legal representative of Zero One Thing, and Ma Jie takes over
On September 21, according to public information, Beijing Lingyi Wanwu Information Technology Co., Ltd. recently underwent industrial and commercial changes. Kaifu Li resigned as the legal representative and manager, and was replaced by Ma Jie. Kaifu Li is still the executive director of the company. On the same day, Beijing Lingyi Wanwu Technology Co., Ltd. also underwent industrial and commercial changes. Li Xiangang resigned as the legal representative, executive director and manager, Ma Jie took over as the legal representative and manager, and Li Kaifu was added as the executive director. So far, Zero One Thousand Things has dozens of core members. Members of the Lianchuang team who have joined include the former Alibaba vice president, former Baidu vice president, former Didi/Baidu chief algorithm leader, former Google China executives, former Microsoft/SAP/Cisco/vice president, etc.
Intel joins hands with TSMC to develop multi-chip packaging chips
According to news on September 22, Intel announced that it is joining hands with TSMC to create the world's first multi-chip packaging chip that complies with the Chiplet Interconnect Industry Alliance (UCIe) standard, including ICs produced by Intel and TSMC. According to industry analysis, chiplet architecture design can help reduce IC design and system customer costs by integrating chips from different processes and achieving differentiated stacking through advanced packaging technology, enabling more diverse chip applications.
Microsoft launches protein generation framework EvoDiff. The core is a model containing 640 million parameters.
According to news on September 22, Microsoft recently launched a general framework called EvoDiff, which is said to be able to generate "high fidelity" and "diversity" proteins based on protein sequences without requiring structural information of the target protein, thus saving time. Got to the most tedious steps. This technology has potential applications in the creation of enzymes for novel therapeutics and drug delivery methods, as well as the development of novel enzymes for industrial chemical reactions. It is understood that the core of the EvoDiff framework is a 640 million parameter model, which is trained using protein data from different species and functional categories.
Intel will provide Stability AI supercomputers equipped with Gaudi2 accelerator cards
According to news on September 22, Intel will build a supercomputer for Stability AI, one of the OpenAI competitors. It plans to use Xeon processors and 4,000 Gaudi2 AI hardware accelerators to build an AI supercomputer. Intel claims that the system will become the largest in the world. One of the artificial intelligence supercomputers.
Snap partners with Microsoft Advertising to power promotional links in chatbot My AI
According to news on September 22, Snap announced today that it is working with Microsoft Advertising to further upgrade the Sponsored Links service in Snapchat’s intelligent chatbot My AI. It is understood that My AI promotion links can embed the products and services of brands and advertisers in the form of promotion links into the dialogue between users and My AI based on the interests, preferences and needs expressed by users, which can not only help brands accurately find potential Users can also promote brand information, products and services in a way that is more acceptable to users. Currently, My AI promotion links are still in the testing stage.
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Li Xiaopeng: Promote the application of new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain in the shipping field
According to news on September 22, the 2023 North Bund International Shipping Forum opened today. Li Xiaopeng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Transport, said at the opening ceremony of the forum that we must vigorously develop smart ports, smart waterways, and smart ships, accelerate the digital transformation of shipping, and shape shipping development. New momentum and new advantages. It is necessary to promote the application of new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain in the shipping field, empower and upgrade traditional shipping businesses, and overall improve the digitalization level of all elements, processes, and chains of shipping services.
The total number of 5G base stations in my country has reached 3.138 million
On September 21, the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the economic performance of the communications industry in the first eight months of this year. Overall, telecommunications business revenue and total volume maintained steady growth. From January to August, telecommunications business revenue totaled 1,141.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%. The total telecommunications business volume calculated at constant prices in the previous year increased by 16.6% year-on-year. The construction of gigabit optical fiber broadband network and 5G network continues to advance. As of the end of August, the number of 10G PON ports with gigabit network service capabilities reached 21.44 million, a net increase of 6.207 million from the end of the previous year. The total number of 5G base stations reached 3.138 million, accounting for 27.5% of the total number of mobile base stations.
Europe’s Chip Act officially comes into effect
According to news on September 21, the European Commission website announced on the 21st that the European Chip Act will take effect on the 21st local time. Through the European "Chip Act", the EU aims to achieve the goal of doubling the global market share of chips to 20% by 2030. Separately, the European Chip Act’s strategy will mobilize more than €43 billion in policy-driven investment, including €11.15 billion in direct public investment from the European Chip Plan, to fund technology leadership in research, design and manufacturing capabilities until 2030. status.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Telecom business revenue from January to August totaled 1,141.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%
According to news on September 21, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed that from January to August, telecommunications business revenue totaled 1.1417 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%. The total telecommunications business volume calculated at constant prices in the previous year increased by 16.6% year-on-year. The three basic telecommunications companies are actively developing emerging businesses such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and Internet data centers. From January to August, they achieved a total business revenue of 239.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.9%.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Launch pilot projects for access and on-road access to intelligent connected vehicles as soon as possible, and accelerate the demonstration and application of city-level "vehicle-road-cloud integration"
According to news on September 21, according to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, on September 21, the 2023 World Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Conference opened in Beijing. Xin Guobin, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the conference and delivered a speech. Xin Guobin said that the global intelligent connected automobile industry has entered a new stage of accelerated development. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, improve supporting policies, optimize the development environment, and continue to promote the high-quality development of the intelligent connected automobile industry. . The first is to strengthen the innovation drive, support upstream and downstream enterprises to establish innovation consortia, learn from each other's strengths, empower each other, and break through key technologies. The second is to improve standards and regulations, accelerate the formulation and revision of key and urgently needed standards, strengthen the coordination of standards in the fields of automobiles, infrastructure, information and communications, and actively contribute standard technical solutions based on Chinese practice. The third is to deepen the pilot demonstrations, launch the pilot projects for intelligent networked vehicle access and on-road traffic as soon as possible, accelerate the promotion of city-level "vehicle-road-cloud integration" demonstration applications, and form a number of characteristic demonstration projects with the participation of domestic and foreign market entities. The fourth is to optimize the industrial ecology, promote the construction of vehicle-road collaborative infrastructure, establish a multi-level cloud control basic platform, and build an integrated and interactive industrial ecology of automobiles, energy, smart cities, etc.
SPIC has launched the "Tianshu-1" series of products and will build the world's largest comprehensive smart energy digital platform by the end of this year.
On the morning of September 22, SPIC’s comprehensive energy smart brain—“Tianshu-1” and a series of industrial digital products were released for the first time in Beijing. As of now, the Tianshu-1 smart system has covered 30 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, and 1,288 counties across the country, deploying 24,010 photovoltaic stations. By the end of 2023, the total scale of comprehensive energy controlled by Tianshu-1 will exceed 40,000 megawatts, and will Becoming the world's largest comprehensive smart energy digital platform.
Investment and Financing
Giftpack receives seed round financing
According to news on September 22, Giftpack announced the completion of a seed round of financing led by Chang Hai Lin, bringing the total financing to date to US$4.3 million. Giftpack is an artificial intelligence enterprise gift giving platform and an artificial intelligence relationship management platform. It realizes personalized gift giving through artificial intelligence automatic gift selection mechanism, and provides customers with the whole process of gift selection, packaging, logistics and distribution, status tracking, and gift receipt feedback. The service aims to create a gift-giving enterprise management cloud, using a data-driven model to significantly improve employee retention rates, sales conversion rates, customer retention rates and production capacity, and to enhance traditional asset values and corporate efficiency. Also participating in the round were Tech Coast Angels, Chih Heng (George) Yeh, Christopher Yang and Dr. Mike Cooney. Earlier investors include Accelerating Asia, Digital Garage Inc., Umami Capital (led by James Lu Morrissey), Shao-Hua (Nick) Wu, Hungwei (Teddy) Chen, Alex Miller, Draper Startup House, Katya Kohen and Axxel Marketing .
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Ren Zhengfei: There are now more than 30 operating systems in China based on Hongmeng open source.
On the evening of September 21, the full text of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei’s conversation in a coffee shop in Shenzhen on July 7 this year was newly exposed. Ren Zhengfei said that there are now more than 30 operating systems in China based on Hongmeng open source, covering industry terminals, mobile phones, tablets, and home terminals. In total, there are approximately 600 million users, ranking third in the world. Hongmeng has just been upgraded to 4.0. After the upgrade, the outside world will also follow suit. There is an open source community out there, and Huawei is not doing it alone. We are doing the base and the core.
Over 40% of new passenger cars in China have combined assisted driving functions
According to news on September 22, at the 2023 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference, Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that in the first half of 2023, China’s new passenger car sales with combined driving assistance functions accounted for 42.4%. "After years of continuous efforts, the development of China's intelligent connected automobile industry has achieved positive results, and the vitality of technological innovation has increased." Xin Guobin said that solid-state lidar has been applied on a large scale, and intelligent driving chips with large computing power have achieved mass production and installation. Many car companies are developing Conditionally automated driving and highly automated driving models.
GlobalFoundries signs a 10-year US$3.1 billion chip supply contract with the U.S. Department of Defense
According to news on September 22, GlobalFoundries announced on September 21, local time, that the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded it a new ten-year contract to supply chips for a wide range of critical aerospace and defense applications. The U.S. Department of Defense will allocate $17.3 million to it in September this year, with a total spending cap of $3.1 billion over ten years. The new contract also provides the U.S. Department of Defense and its contractors with access to GF’s design ecosystem, IP library, early access to new technologies under development, rapid and efficient prototyping, and full volume manufacturing. This is the third consecutive ten-year contract between the U.S. Department of Defense and GF’s foundry business.
Construction of the first new power system full-area demonstration zone in North China begins
According to news on September 22, according to the State Grid, the first new power system full-area demonstration zone in North China has started construction in Chongli, Hebei. According to reports, the first new power system comprehensive demonstration zone in North China, which is under construction this time, integrates cutting-edge energy system technologies such as new energy, pumped storage, flexible DC, and virtual power plants to better coordinate the advancement of cutting-edge technologies and equipment. Scientific research and demonstration verification of materials can achieve optimal allocation of energy resources in the entire region and improve the comprehensive energy efficiency of the whole society.
