On April 11th, the National Internet Information Office publicly solicited opinions on the Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services (Draft for Comment) (hereinafter referred to as the Draft for Comment). The Draft for Comment consists of 21 articles, which gives detailed provisions on the generative artificial intelligence industry, including definitions, access qualifications, responsibilities and obligations, and penalties.
"The state supports independent innovation, popularization and application, and international cooperation of basic technologies such as artificial intelligence algorithms and frameworks, and encourages giving priority to the use of safe and reliable software, tools, computing and data resources. In the "Draft for Comment", the attitude of support and encouragement to the generative artificial intelligence industry was clarified.
At present, many domestic technology giants, including Baidu, Tencent, Ali, Huawei, JD.COM, 360, etc., have announced their corresponding layouts in the generative AI industry. (Source: The Paper)
With the development and application of large-scale language models and ChatGPT-like technologies accelerated by major companies, the potential risks of these artificial intelligence technologies and how to develop and apply them reasonably have attracted much attention. Thousands of top people, including Musk and stephen wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, have publicly called on AI Lab to suspend training more powerful models for six months in order to formulate and implement relevant security protocols.
According to the latest reports from foreign media, SV Angel, a top investment company, will convene executives and employees of top companies in the field of AI R&D to discuss the formulation of standards for using AI technology.
The foreign media mentioned in the report that this meeting convened by SV Angel will be held on Wednesday local time. Representatives from companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Apple and NVIDIA are expected to attend, and the participants are expected to discuss how to continue to develop AI in the most responsible manner.
When Musk and others called for a six-month suspension of training more powerful models, they mentioned in their letters that AI labs and third-party experts should use the suspension time to jointly formulate and implement the shared security protocol for advanced AI design and development, and related protocols are strictly reviewed and supervised by third-party experts. (Source: TechWeb)
According to foreign media reports, TSMC, the chip foundry, recently announced its revenue in March, and the revenue in the first quarter was also released.
According to the data released by TSMC in official website, their revenue in March was NT$ 145.408 billion, down 15.4% year-on-year and 10.9% quarter-on-quarter. Revenue in the first quarter was NT$ 508.633 billion, up from NT$ 491.076 billion in the same period last year, up 3.6% year-on-year.
Although the revenue in January and February continued to grow year-on-year, which promoted TSMC’s revenue growth in the first quarter, their revenue in this quarter actually did not meet expectations.
In the first quarter financial report released on January 12, TSMC disclosed that according to the business prospects at that time, the management expected the revenue in the first quarter to be $16.7-17.5 billion. According to the conversion ratio of 1:30.7 given by TSMC in the financial report, TSMC’s revenue of NT$ 508.633 billion in the first quarter is about US$ 16.568 billion after conversion, which is lower than the expected lower limit of US$ 16.7 billion. (Source: TechWeb)
On April 11th, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in 2023, Zhang Yong, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, delivered a keynote speech, saying that all Alibaba products will be connected to the "Tongyi Qianwen" model in the future and be completely transformed. He believes that for the AI ? ? era, all products are worth upgrading with a big model.
"In the era of intelligence, all companies are on the same starting line. Zhang Yong said, "All industries, software and services deserve to be redone based on the new artificial intelligence technology, which will not only bring innovative customer experience, but also change our production, work and life paradigm. At the same time, he pointed out that the big model is an all-round competition of "AI+ cloud computing". The research and development of the big model with over one trillion parameters is not only an algorithm problem, but also includes the huge underlying computing power, network, big data, machine learning and many other complex and systematic projects, which need the support of ultra-large-scale AI infrastructure. (Source: The Paper)
At the management meeting on April 9th, JD.COM Retail established the latest organizational structure reform framework, which mainly included the following contents:
Cancel the business group system and change it into the business division system, and the person in charge of the original business group will be the person in charge of the business division;
Each business department under the unified management of the original business group will be divided into specific business units according to the subdivided categories, giving the category leaders more decision-making autonomy, including the rights of personnel appointment and dismissal;
In addition, in the split business unit, there will be no distinction between POP and self-operation, and the two will be fully opened and managed by a unified category manager, further realizing the "equal rights" of traffic.
This is the biggest organizational restructuring of JD.COM retail in the past five years after the business division was upgraded to a business group system in 2018. It is also the first time that JD.COM has opened up its own business and POP since it set foot in the POP business, and truly realized a plate of goods. (Source: 36Kr)
Recently, Li Congshan, vice president of Aauto Quicker e-commerce, has recently left. As of press time, there was no official response from Aauto Quicker.
Li Congshan has rich working experience in the field of e-commerce. He worked in Huawei and Baidu successively, and later joined Ant Group in 2017. He served as the deputy general manager of Sesame Credit and the deputy general manager of Alipay applet business unit, with the rank of P10/M5. Before joining Aauto Quicker, he served as the general manager of 1688 industrial brand business in Alibaba, responsible for the brand operation of industrial B2B e-commerce.
According to public information, after joining Aauto Quicker in 2021, Li Congshan served as the head of ecological and regional operations of e-commerce service providers. This position was very important for e-commerce in Aauto Quicker at that time. At this time, Aauto Quicker hoped to continuously enrich its service provider system, and move the cooperation support for service providers from the behind-the-scenes stage to the front stage, so as to better serve businesses and platforms through service providers. (Source: Tech Planet)
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the scale of China’s computing power industry has grown rapidly in recent years, with an annual growth rate of nearly 30%, ranking second in the world. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of last year, the total computing power in China had reached 18 billion floating-point operations per second, and the total storage power had exceeded 1,000 EB (1 trillion GB). The one-way network delay between national hub nodes has been reduced to less than 20 milliseconds, and the scale of the core computing industry has reached 1.8 trillion yuan. China Information and Communication Research Institute estimates that every input of computing power into 1 yuan will drive the economic growth of GDP from 3 to 5 years. (Source: CCTV News)
TheElec, a Korean electronic industry media, quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that all four models of OLED screens of Apple’s iPhone 15 series this year are expected to use M12 materials from Samsung Display Company. In addition, the new folding mobile phone that Samsung will launch later this year is also expected to use M12 material again, which is the same as last year’s Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4. Samsung Display Company is also developing a new material named M13 for customers other than Apple, which may be used in Google’s folding mobile phone this year. (Source: Interface)
Recently, BYD released the new energy exclusive intelligent body control system "Yunqi". The intelligent body control system of Yunqi was developed by BYD, which also marked that BYD became the first China automobile enterprise to master the intelligent body control system independently.
Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD Group, said at the press conference that the launch of "Yunqi" is another safety technical breakthrough after BYD’s blade battery, body integrated technology (CTB) and four-motor independent drive system (Easy Sifang).
Wang Chuanfu said that the "cloud chariot" can effectively restrain the posture change of the vehicle body, greatly reduce the rollover risk of the vehicle and reduce the sitting displacement of the driver and passenger. At the same time, the cloud chariot system can effectively protect the vehicle body under complex road conditions such as snow, mud and water, avoid the collision damage of the whole vehicle caused by terrain, ensure the safety and stability of the whole vehicle, and realize the double protection of people and vehicles.
According to reports, the cloud system will be installed in BYD Dynasty series models, marine flagship models, Tengshi brand, Wangwang brand and professional personalized brand models. (Source: Geek Park)
On April 11th, ByteDance’s office software Feishu released a video to announce the exclusive intelligent assistant "My AI".
Different from the artificial intelligence products launched by other domestic manufacturers, from the demonstration point of view, the positioning of My AI is not like ChatGPT, which communicates with users at will, but more like Office Copy launched by Microsoft.
In the demonstration, users can generate meeting minutes through My AI summary, and create corresponding to-do items according to the meeting minutes to assist users in planning the follow-up work.
At the same time, the AI can generate reports and other content according to document data; And according to the user’s editing content, the document content can be further written, which greatly improves the work efficiency.
In addition, My AI can also help users create meetings, query case references, brainstorm, plan project progress, etc., and help users in all aspects.
It can be said that although My AI may not be as good as generative artificial intelligence that can talk freely in terms of "intelligence", at this stage, it can obviously provide more and more practical help for the work. (Source: Fast Technology)
A study in university of vermont found that TikTok content related to food and nutrition continued unhealthy food culture among young users, while the voice of experts was basically absent on the platform. Researchers advocate a shift to a weight-inclusive nutrition, and rethink the attitude of society towards body, food and health.
The research was recently published in PLOS One magazine, and found that the information of weight norms, that is, the idea that weight is the most important criterion to measure a person’s health, is dominant on TikTok, and the most popular video beautifies weight loss behavior, and takes food as the main means to achieve health and weight loss. These findings are particularly worrying in view of the existing research that shows that the use of social media by teenagers and young adults is related to abnormal diet and negative body image.
Lizzy Pope, a senior researcher, said, "Every day, what millions of teenagers and young people are taught on TikTok is very unrealistic and inaccurate in describing food, nutrition and health. TikTok, which is caught in the trend of losing weight, may be a very bad environment for the audience, especially for the main users of the platform, that is, young people. (Source: cnBeta)
