"Geek Headlines" - the news circle for technicians!
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JD.com denies rumors of layoffs: It does not have any similar plans and is still recruiting employees
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Tongyi Qianwen 72B open source model topped two charts at the same time
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Alibaba e-commerce focuses on AI: Taotian has set up 4 teams, with an international business team of more than 100 people
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Ant Group responds to rank reform
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Alibaba Cloud Chief Commercial Officer Cai Yinghua resigned
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ByteDance cancels development plan for next-generation VR headset PICO 5
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AI ghostwriting sold hundreds of copies in 2 hours, and the price of the year-end report was less than 30 yuan
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OpenAI’s sky-high annual salary of 6 million shocked netizens, and the salaries of the top AI companies in the United States were exposed
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OpenAI reopens new user registration for ChatGPT Plus
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iPhone 16 may adjust camera island design
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The second generation of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus will be released in December
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Programmer develops Tetris game for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software
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Apple will launch a new iPhone security mode that can protect you even if you lose your password
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Microsoft wants to use nuclear power to power its AI business
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FFmpeg is preparing to add CLI multi-threading support
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VMware embraces subscription model
domestic news
JD.com denies rumors of layoffs: It does not have any similar plans and is still recruiting employees
On December 13, media reported that multiple JD.com employees revealed that JD.com is currently undergoing personnel adjustments, involving business lines such as logistics, technology, retail, and industry. The compensation is N+1 and there is no year-end bonus. The media said that some employees revealed that the proportions are different in different departments, and the department where they work has a larger proportion, which may continue to be adjusted after the year. The reporter asked JD.com for confirmation on this news. Jingdong insiders denied this rumor, saying that they do not have any similar plans and are still recruiting employees. The company's total headcount has increased to 590,000. (Central Broadcasting Network)
Tongyi Qianwen 72B open source model topped two charts at the same time
Recently, Hugging Face, the world's largest open source large model community, and OpenCompass, the authoritative domestic large model evaluation platform, respectively announced the latest open source large model rankings. Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's 72 billion parameter model Qwen-72B overcame large domestic and foreign open source models such as Llama 2 and topped the two rankings at the same time.
In the Hugging Face six-dimensional evaluation, Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen-72B) performed well, ranking first among all pre-trained models with a comprehensive score of 73.6. In the latest Chinese large model list of OpenCompass, the authoritative domestic open source large model evaluation platform, Tongyi Qianwen 72B model won the championship with a comprehensive score of 67.1. (Ai Faner)
Alibaba e-commerce focuses on AI: Taotian has set up 4 teams, with an international business team of more than 100 people
Taotian Group has just sorted out its AI business, shrinking it from about 20 teams to 4. At the same time, it has released Taotian's own large-scale model product "Turing" internally; the AI team of the International Digital Business Group currently has more than 100 people. In September this year, Alibaba's new CEO Wu Yongming established "AI-driven" as one of the group's two strategic priorities in an internal letter to all employees; in November, during his first earnings call after taking office, "AI" also became a He described the most important keywords for Alibaba's strategy and various businesses this quarter. (LatePost)
Ant Group responds to rank reform
On December 13, Ant Group issued a notice on the reform of the rank system, which "splits" the original ranks. Rank P4 remains unchanged, and each level of P5-P9 is divided into two according to performance; P5 corresponds to 10 and 11; P6 corresponds 12, 13; P7 corresponds to 14, 15; P8 corresponds to 16, 17, and P9 corresponds to 18, 19. In response, relevant people from Ant Group responded that Ant’s current ranking system has been in use for many years and can no longer meet the company’s development needs. The new ranking system is to better adapt to market changes and provide a better organization for the company’s development. support. (Interface News)
Alibaba Cloud Chief Commercial Officer Cai Yinghua resigned
Alibaba Cloud Chief Commercial Officer Cai Yinghua (nick name: Hua Yan) officially resigned from Alibaba Cloud on December 13. Tsai Yinghua is a key figure in Alibaba Cloud's promotion of government and enterprise business in the past two years. He landed at Alibaba Cloud in March 2022 and served as senior vice president of Alibaba Group (M7 level). Cai Yinghua's resignation has actually been foreshadowed for a long time. On November 23, Alibaba Cloud announced the latest organizational structure adjustment. The sales line structure has been changed into three parts, namely the Public Cloud Business Division, the Hybrid Cloud Business Division and the Overseas Business Division, all reporting to Alibaba Cloud CEO Wu Yongming. , but Cai Yinghua’s movements were not seen. (36 krypton)
ByteDance cancels development plan for next-generation VR headset PICO 5
People familiar with the matter revealed on Wednesday that ByteDance will cancel PICO's plan to develop the next-generation virtual reality headset PICO 5 due to lower-than-expected sales of the PICO 4 virtual reality headset developed by ByteDance VR subsidiary PICO. (Tencent Technology)
AI ghostwriting sold hundreds of copies in 2 hours, and the price of the year-end report was less than 30 yuan
As the end of the year approaches, it’s time for the annual year-end summary. This year, AI (artificial intelligence) ghostwriting has become popular. Compared with the price of manual writing of 60 to 80 yuan per thousand words, AI ghostwriting costs less than 30 yuan, and you can get a "permanently free to use" AI writing software. It is reported that as long as you enter keywords, the year-end summary report will be generated immediately with one click. Open a shopping app, and records show that some stores sold hundreds of products in just 2 hours. However, industry insiders remind that although AI ghostwriting improves work efficiency, it should not be overly relied on. It is necessary to limit AI functions in specific areas. (China Securities Journal)
international news
OpenAI’s sky-high annual salary of 6 million shocked netizens, and the salaries of the top AI companies in the United States were exposed
Recently, a salary list of a major American technology company was exposed, with OpenAI leading the way with a starting salary of 5 million. The compensation offered by startups actually exceeds that of all large technology companies. However, the hourly wage for junior coders is as low as 85 yuan. OpenAI offers employees annual salaries of up to $865,000, with a base salary of $665,000 and salary increases of up to 30%. (New Wisdom)
OpenAI reopens new user registration for ChatGPT Plus
After being suspended for nearly a month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced today that ChatGPT Plus subscriptions have now been reopened. According to previous reports, on November 15, due to huge demand, OpenAI decided to suspend new user registrations for the ChatGPT Plus paid subscription service to ensure that existing users have a high-quality experience. At the time, Sam Altman said the company was working to increase its capacity and hoped to resume new user signups soon. In the meantime, he encouraged interested users to join the waiting list.
iPhone 16 may adjust camera island design
According to internal information currently available, Apple has designed multiple iPhone 16 prototypes internally. The yellow prototype has operation buttons, the volume buttons have a coherent design, and the back has a camera island design similar to the iPhone X. The pink prototype is equipped with operation buttons and independent mechanical volume buttons; the black prototype is equipped with larger operation buttons and is equipped with a dedicated camera button.
It is reported that the overall appearance of iPhone 16 will not be significantly adjusted. The main updates include: vertical camera arrangement, which may be similar to iPhone 12; new capacitive camera button; capacitive operation button. Some netizens commented: "I heard that you are still working on something original. It seems like this is all you do. Why don't you take some time to think about it." (IT House)
The second generation of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus will be released in December
On the evening of December 12, local time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk released the latest video of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus. According to the video, compared with the previous generation of humanoid robots, the walking speed of the second-generation humanoid robot Optimus-Gen 2 has increased by 30%, its balance ability and body control capabilities have been improved, and its overall weight has also increased from 73kg reduced to 63kg. It is reported that the second generation Optimus Prime will be released in December 2023.
It is worth noting that the video shows that the second-generation Optimus Prime can easily and accurately grab and put down eggs. The whole process is relatively coherent and smooth, and the entire process of turning his left hand to his right hand is also quite coherent, showing the exquisite control ability of his hands. In the Easter egg segment at the end of the video, the second-generation Optimus Prime even completed a disco. (The Paper)
Programmer develops Tetris game for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software
According to news on December 13, a programmer "Mehmet Salih Koten" recently posted on Reddit, claiming that he had developed a "fully functional" Tetris game for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software. It is reported that this Tetris game can be controlled using buttons embedded in the table, supports functions such as "rapid falling" and "changing the direction of blocks", and has a scoreboard that can display real-time scores and the highest score.
It is reported that this Tetris game is written using the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) language based on VB, which is a programming language built into Excel. Microsoft has embedded related language support for Excel, which is mainly used to implement office automation macro scripts. However, Many programmers use related scripts to write games for Excel, which can be said to be "bad". (IT Home)
Apple will launch a new iPhone security mode that can protect you even if you lose your password
Apple is launching a new security mode for iPhones that protects users if thieves or other attackers know their private passwords. If the phone is in a location not normally associated with its owner and Stolen Device Protection is turned on, the device will require Apple's FaceID facial recognition and the user's passcode to perform sensitive actions, such as viewing stored passwords or wiping the phone. (Financial Associated Press)
Microsoft wants to use nuclear power to power its AI business
AI models consume a lot of electricity, and Microsoft is betting on nuclear power to power its AI business. Even crazier, Microsoft has spent the past six months training its large language model using U.S. nuclear regulatory and licensing documents, according to WSJ , a move aimed at speeding up the paperwork required to approve the construction of civilian nuclear power, which typically takes years and costs Millions of dollars. Tech giants such as Microsoft and Google have recently been considering the use of small modular reactors (SMRs), a low-cost, modular nuclear power design. There are currently no such small and medium-sized reactors in operation in the United States. SMRs remain expensive to permit and build. While using AI to draft nuclear regulatory documents might not seem like a good idea, the software giant says it will make sure the AI doesn't trigger a nuclear reactor meltdown, and it won't let the AI work on nuclear code. (solidot)
Programmer Zone
FFmpeg is preparing to add CLI multi-threading support
In a multi-core world, the widely used open source multimedia framework FFmpeg is ready to support multi-threading. FFmpeg 7.0 will be released early next year, and its CLI multi-threaded transcoding pipeline has been merged into FFmpeg Git. The developer said that the project began in late 2021 and that almost every line of code was affected. The work is one of the most complex refactorings of the FFmpeg CLI in decades. Developers are urged to test more and report feedback.
VMware embraces subscription model
VMware, which was acquired by Broadcom, announced that it will fully embrace the subscription model and will stop selling permanent licenses from now on. Customers can continue to use permanent license products with valid contracts. Broadcom will work with customers to "trade in" the permanent licenses. The product is switched to a new subscription product. VMware said it is cutting the subscription price of its flagship enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solution VMware Cloud Foundation in half and launching a new product for small and medium-sized businesses, VMware vSphere Foundation.
