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AutoNavi and Koubei officially merged: Ali’s local store-to-store business will be unified and integrated
On March 22, according to late LatePost news, AutoNavi held an internal meeting, announcing that AutoNavi and Ali Local Life’s in-store business word-of-mouth formally merged. At the same time, in the future, all the local life-to-store businesses under Ali will be unified and integrated in the entrance of AutoNavi.
At present, the contract subjects, ranks, and salaries of Koubei employees have not changed for the time being, and the stock will not be involved in adjustments for the time being. It is understood that in the 15 years since Koubei was acquired by Ali, it has gone through four stages of development: Taobao (Taobao), Alipay (Alipay), Hungry (Ele.me), and Gaode (AutoNavi). One of the most volatile businesses in-house. (Source: Fast Technology)
NVIDIA announced that it has reached a cooperation with BYD, and all new cars will be equipped with Drive Orin chips
On March 22, at GTC 2023 held by NVIDIA, NVIDIA announced that starting next year, BYD, the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, will use the NVIDIA Drive Orin centralized computing platform in its full range of vehicles, further expanding its dynasty, The use of DRIVE Orin in multiple models of the Oceano series brings safer and smarter vehicles to market.
According to reports, DRIVE Orin is currently the most powerful automotive processor on the market. The chip integrates 21 billion transistors, adopts NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture, has 12 Cortex-A78 ARM 64CPUs, and supports deep learning and computer vision accelerators. The computing power can reach 254TOPS, and it can calculate 254 trillion times per second. Since it went into production last year, it has become the AI engine of choice for the industry’s new generation of new energy vehicles, robotaxis, shuttles and trucks. (Source: Sina Technology)
TikTok CEO sends video calling on users to speak up for TikTok
On March 22, TikTok CEO Chow was funded by a TikTok video released on March 21 local time, saying that the app now has more than 150 million monthly active users in the United States, accounting for almost half of the country’s population. TikTok faces a “critical moment” as more U.S. lawmakers want to ban the app due to so-called “national security concerns.”
Zhou Shouzi called on TikTok users to comment on the video and tell U.S. lawmakers why they love the app. At present, the video has been played by more than 3.5 million people, and the number of comments has exceeded 1,000. (Source: The Paper)
Tencent’s To B business achieved revenue of 177.1 billion yuan, a slight increase of 2.84% year-on-year
On the afternoon of March 22, Tencent Holdings released its financial report for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022. According to Tencent’s financial report, for the whole year of 2022, it will achieve revenue of 554.6 billion yuan. Among them, the financial technology and enterprise service business achieved revenue of 177.1 billion yuan, which was 172.2 billion yuan last year, a slight increase of 2.84% year-on-year; the financial technology and enterprise service business revenue accounted for 31.93% of the total revenue, an increase of 1 percentage point from last year. It is Tencent’s largest source of income.
At the same time, the monthly active users of WeChat and WeChat reached 1.313 billion in the fourth quarter, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%. The total usage time of WeChat will continue to grow in 2022. The usage time of mini programs and video accounts is twice and three times that of the same period last year, respectively, and both exceed the usage time of Moments. Mini Programs have become one of the leading trading platforms in China, with a transaction volume of trillions of RMB in 2022 and contributing to the development of the real economy. (Source: Titanium Media)
Yang Hongxia, the former leader of the Ali M6 large model, joined ByteDance to participate in the research and development of the language generation large model
On March 22, it was learned from multiple independent sources that Yang Hongxia, the former leader of Ali’s M6 large model, has joined Byte AI Lab (artificial intelligence laboratory) to participate in the research and development of large language generation models. Yang Hongxia is in a leading position in the language generation large model team and reports directly to Bytedance Vice President Yang Zhenyuan.
Yang Hongxia used to be the technical director of the ultra-large-scale multi-modal pre-training model M6 of the Alibaba Dharma Academy. She graduated from the Department of Statistical Science of Nankai University and Duke University, and studied under the famous statistician David Dunson. She has nearly 100 top papers in international conferences and top journals in the field of artificial intelligence. At the beginning of September 2022, Yang Hongxia resigned from Alibaba Dharma Academy due to personal and family reasons. (Source: 36 Krypton)
Zhihu’s revenue in the fourth quarter of last year was 1.114 billion yuan, and its net loss narrowed by 53.2% year-on-year
On March 22, Zhihu released its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2022. At the financial level, Zhihu’s total revenue in the fourth quarter was 1.114 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3%, the net loss narrowed by 53.2% year-on-year, and the gross profit margin continued to increase to 56.4%. The total revenue in 2022 will be 3.605 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.8%.
At the user level, the average number of monthly subscription members of Zhihu in the fourth quarter reached 13 million, a year-on-year increase of 112.5%, and the average MAUs in 2022 will reach 101 million.
From the perspective of revenue structure, C-end businesses such as membership and education contributed nearly half of the revenue. Among them, paid membership income was 403 million yuan, achieving a strong year-on-year growth of 92.8%. Vocational education is the second growth curve of Zhihu. In the fourth quarter, the revenue reached 84.6 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 281.1%. Other income, mainly from sales of self-owned brand consumer goods and book series, reached 54.5 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.2%. (Source: Sina Technology)
OPPO, Xiaomi, and Vivo announce support for third-party application data migration
On the morning of March 22, ColorOS, MIUI, and OriginOS officially announced that OPPO, Xiaomi, and vivo have reached a cooperation.
The official said that in addition to system data such as photos and contacts, the mobile phone moving apps of the three systems will add support for third-party application data migration. At that time, users can transfer their chat records and other third-party application data to different brands of mobile phones through the one-key moving function.
It is reported that in order to realize this function, different version requirements need to be met. Among them, OPPO Huantai mobile phone moving-replacement assistant is upgraded to version 13.3.7 and above, Xiaomi is upgraded to version 4.0.0 and above, and vivo mutual transfer upgrade Up to version 6.2.5.1 and above. (Source: Pinwan)
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers: Most of the promotions in this round are old stock cars, and the exaggerated price reduction promotion is misleading
On March 22, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released a review article titled “Rational Treatment of the Current Auto Promotion Market and Returning to Normal Order as Soon as Possible”. It pointed out that since March, car promotion and price cuts have aroused widespread concern and heated discussions in the market. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, based on recent reports from various parties, believes that the hype of this round of price cuts should cool down as soon as possible, so that the industry can return to normal operation and ensure the healthy and stable development of the industry throughout the year.
According to the China Automobile Association, the production and sales of new energy vehicles are expected to reach 9 million in 2023, continuing to maintain a rapid growth rate. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers believes that although new energy vehicles are developing rapidly, fuel vehicles are also accelerating technological upgrades and constantly adapting to new changes in market demand. The two will coexist for a long time in the future and jointly meet different consumption needs. (Source: Fast Technology)
2023 China’s 50 Most Influential Business Leaders Announced: BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu No. 1
On March 21, Fortune Chinese website announced the “50 Most Influential Business Leaders in China in 2023”. The list shows that Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD Co., Ltd., will become the most influential business leader in 2023. Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, and Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, followed closely behind, ranking second and third respectively.
In addition to Wang Chuanfu, Zhang Yiming and Ren Zhengfei, the top ten on the list include Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, Yu Minhong, founder/chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group, Liu Yonghao, chairman of New Hope Group, and Liu Qiangdong, chairman of JD.com , Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, Dong Mingzhu, chairman and president of Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliances Co., Ltd., and Cao Dewang, founder/chairman of Fuyao Glass Group. (Source: Sina Finance)
Dpreview, the 25-year-old authoritative digital camera evaluation website, shut down
On March 21 local time, Dpreview, a 25-year-old camera evaluation website, issued an announcement. The statement was very short, saying that the website will be closed in the near future and will be active until April 10. The editorial team is still conducting evaluation work. Some of the best content ever released will be there.
According to their plan, the website will not be updated after April 10, and the previous content of the website will be available for a limited time. If any readers have uploaded photos and text content before, they can download them before April 6, and they will not be able to view them later. promise.
Dpreview did not explain in detail the reason for the shutdown, but only stated that it was decided during the parent company Amazon’s annual operational review. (Source: Fast Technology)
Microsoft GitHub introduces OpenAI chat feature, allowing developers to ask how to code
On March 22, according to reports, Microsoft’s software development platform GitHub released a new version of the programming tool “Copilot X” today, which integrates OpenAI’s language generation tool, adds chat and voice functions, and allows developers to ask how to complete specific coding Task. Copilot X’s chat functionality will use the newer GPT-4 version.
Copilot is a widely used programming tool that debuted in 2021 and was widely released last year. Initially, the product included a completion tool that suggested code as software developers typed it. Now, GitHub has introduced OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chat technology to it, adding chat and voice capabilities, allowing developers to ask how to complete specific coding tasks. (Source: Sina Technology)
Xiaomi’s new patent: match the level of automatic driving according to the driver
On March 22, an inquiry from the State Intellectual Property Office was informed that a new patent for Xiaomi Automobile had been approved, involving technologies related to autonomous driving. The patent can automatically match the driver with an automatic driving mode that meets the driver’s current safe driving level to ensure the driver’s driving safety.
The method includes: determining that the vehicle is in an automatic driving mode, collecting driver information of the driver during driving; determining the driver’s target safe driving level according to the collected driver information; The target automatic driving mode that matches the target safe driving level, and authorize the operation authority of the target automatic driving mode. (Source: Fast Technology)
EA game unboxing accused of illegal gambling, Canadian judge dismisses lawsuit
Recently, a plaintiff named Mark Sutherland accused EA of “deceptive and unconscionable acts or practices” under the Business Administration and Consumer Protection Act of British Columbia (BC), Canada. He is filing the claim on behalf of all B.C. residents who have paid a substantial amount since 2008 for the presence of loot boxes in more than 70 EA games.
Judge Justice Fleming, who heard the suit, said the plaintiffs’ claim that the EA game’s loot boxes constituted “illegal gambling” was “doomed to fail” and dismissed it. Therefore, it is impossible to gain or lose anything of real value through defendant’s inside sales,” the judge said. “Unlike casino chips, virtual currency and virtual items in loot boxes can never be ‘cashed out’ to make money.”
EA said in a statement: “We are pleased that the trial court has legally dismissed the allegations of illegal gambling. The court’s decision reaffirms our position that nothing in our games constitutes gambling.” (Source: 3DMGame)
