It's another week off.

Let's take a look at what has happened in the Internet circle recently.

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Internet hotspots

1、  Zhou Hongyi says ChatGPT may threaten mankind

In an interview with the media on Feb. 23, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360360, once again mentioned that the popular chat robot ChatGPT "ChatGPT may develop self-awareness and threaten human beings within 2-3 years. At the scene of the interview, Zhou Hongyi said "the words are amazing." He mentioned that any industry's APP, software, websites, applications, if you add to the ability of GPT, it is worth reshaping. "Don't think of it as a media tool, a search engine, or a chatbot. It's all a little too pediatric.

2、 Survey shows: OpenAI ChatGPT will cause 26% of European software and technology companies to plan layoffs

February 23 news, according to foreign media reports, artificial intelligence may really take the jobs of human beings! According to a new survey by Sortlist Data Hub, ChatGPT will directly lead to 26% of European software and technology companies planning to lay off workers, followed by financial companies with 22%.

Among employees of all ages, millennials (born between 1965 and 1980) are the most worried about ChatGPT taking their jobs, accounting for 43 per cent. Among them, millennials in the financial sector are twice as likely to worry about layoffs. They think ChatGPT will replace not only the author of the marketing copywriter, but also the staff who analyze the data. In addition, employees between the ages of 18 and 24 are the most optimistic, believing that ChatGPT will double their productivity. The least optimistic age group is 45 to 54 years old, and less than 5% think so. In addition, for the premium version of ChatGPT being developed by OpenAI, according to Sortlist, software and technology companies are willing to pay the most for ChatGPT Professional, with 32% willing to pay more than 250 euros per month (currently about 1833 yuan), and 52% are even willing to pay up to 500 euros (currently about 3665 yuan) for it.

3、 The world's first book written by ChatGPT and proofread by Al will be published in South Korea next week.

South Korean publisher Snowfox Books plans to publish a book written entirely by ChatGPT, which will be translated into Korean, proofread and illustrated by an artificial intelligence (Al) machine, the first in the global publishing world, according to the Korea Economic News. The book, called 45 ways to find goals in Life (45 Ways to Findthe Purpose of Life), is based on content ideas developed by Seo Jin, CEO of SnowfoxBooks, and will be available on February 22nd. It is reported that ChatGPT took seven hours to complete the necessary information and data research and wrote 135 pages in English. After that, Papago, the intelligent Al translation app of South Korean technology giant Naver, translated the book into Korean within two hours. Jointly developed by the artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Busan National University and the Korean startup company Nara Info Tech, the Korean spelling and grammar checker based on AI is responsible for proofreading this book. The cover design is done by Shutterstock Al, an American artificial intelligence image generation company.

4、 Fuyue vs Google: quantum computers may be commercially available in 2025

In order to realize the commercial use of quantum computers at an early date, the Japanese Institute of Science and Chemistry will cooperate with Fujitsu to accelerate the collaborative computing of quantum computers and "Fuyue" supercomputers. Quantum computers will work with supercomputing to achieve more advanced "hybrid" computing and strive to be commercially available in 2025, earlier than originally expected.

5 、 Big chip manufacturers go to Southeast Asia

Under the superposition of many factors, the global semiconductor industry is also facing new fluctuations, and Southeast Asia has become the "focus" of fluctuations.

Although the semiconductor industry in Southeast Asia is at the low end of the industrial chain, it plays a vital role in the division of labor in the global chip industry chain. It is estimated that 15% of the passive components are manufactured in Southeast Asia, which is also an important testing and packaging center for technology companies, accounting for 27% of the global semiconductor closed test market. According to statistics, the chip market in Southeast Asian countries is about $27 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach about $41.1 billion in 2028.

Tracing back to the driving force behind industrial fluctuations, in addition to the key factors of demographic dividend and cost, under the influence of international geopolitical conflicts, Sino-US trade frictions and other factors, the security of supply chain has gradually become a consensus, which further catalyzes the diversion, migration, fluctuation and adjustment of the global electronic industry chain. In addition, semiconductor manufacturers such as Samsung, Intel, Grid Core and United Power have factories in Southeast Asia, where they plan to expand further. Counting Southeast Asian countries, Singapore's human capital, infrastructure and friendly business environment make it a natural port of choice; the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have a skilled labor and talent base to support the back-end manufacturing of complex chips. Today, with the changes in the international geographical pattern and industrial environment, Southeast Asia is becoming a "treasure land" for chip giants to bet on.

 6 、 Tencent is negotiating with Meta to introduce VR Touch Show? Source: there is a plan, but it hasn't been finalized yet.

Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, to sell the MetaQuest series in China, according to three people familiar with the matter. The talks between Tencent and Meta began last year and have continued in recent months, the source said, adding that the talks were still at an early stage and the details had not yet been reached. A person close to Tencent confirmed that Tencent had plans to represent the Meta Quest series since last year, but company executives are still controversial and have not decided whether to reach a cooperation.

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Trends of large companies

Dou Yin

 1、 Douyin e-commerce tests PC shopping and recommends carrying goods.

It is understood that Douyin e-commerce focuses on the construction of the PC side, and has successively tested the new function of window carrying goods on the mobile side and the PC side, focusing on the ability to carry goods in the window to publish "recommended content". In addition, the shopping function of Douyin e-commerce is no longer limited to the mobile side, and is giving more e-commerce shopping capabilities to the PC side. At present, the product mount function has been added in the live studio, and users can shop through Douyin App scanning on the PC side, which means that Douyin e-commerce has initially opened up the shopping scene on the PC side and created a Douyin version of PC Mall.

Baidu

1、 BaiduIn 2022, the annual revenue was 123.675 billion yuan, and the fourth quarter revenue was 33.1 billion yuan.

36 Krypton learnedBaiduRelease the fourth quarter and full-year results of 2022. According to the financial report, in 2022BaiduRealized revenue of 123.675 billion yuan, belonging toBaiduNet profit (non-GAAP) was 20.68 billion yuan, up 10% from the same period last year. According to the financial report,BaiduThe revenue in the fourth quarter is 33.1 billion yuan, and the market is expected to be 32.06 billion yuan.BaiduAnnounced a $5 billion share buyback plan. As of the press releaseBaiduUs stocks rose more than 7% before trading.

Amazon

1、 Amazon joins the AI arms race: jointly developing open source competition for ChatGPT on AWS

Amazon cloud service AWS has announced an expanded partnership with Al startup Hugging Face, where Hugging Face will develop an open source competition for ChatGFT on AWS to build the next version of the open source language model, Bloom, the latest move by large technology companies to form alliances in the market for generative Al models.

Byte beat

1、 Sources say byte jump joins the "ChatGPT Battle": search and Smart Chuang take the lead

According to 36 Krypton, several sources have revealed that byte jumps are laying out large models, using forces in both language and image modes. Among them, the language large model team is led by the byte search department and is currently about a dozen people, while the picture large model team is led by an intelligent creation team under the product development and engineering architecture department, the report said. The indirect and direct reporting objects of the head of the language large model team and the head of the image large model team are Zhu Wenjia, the head of Tik Tok product technology. In response, the person in charge of byte-related technology responded that the technology in Taiwan has explored in these areas, but it is still very early and immature. Another person familiar with the matter said that the byte jump language large model team was set up this year to explore the direction of combining with downstream businesses such as search and advertising, and the language big model team is expected to launch the big model in the middle of this year.

Alibaba

1、 Alibaba: no company can change the situation through continuous price subsidies

According to Sina Technology, when asked by Goldman Sachs analysts at Alibaba's performance meeting, Zhang Yong, chairman of Alibaba's board and CEO, said that price subsidies are not new, and that every once in a while someone will take the initiative to do some price subsidies, hoping that subsidies can reverse the situation and win the first opportunity. However, looking back at history, no company can achieve the goal of changing the situation through its own continuous price subsidies, and ultimately changing the situation depends on technological innovation and the innovation of business mechanisms, which really makes merchants willing to give the best goods and the best prices to consumers. It is impossible for a person to subsidize the whole platform. Only if the merchant is willing to pay for his consumers and is willing to pay for them, and this payment has a long-term and sustainable business return, this is a positive cycle..

Microsoft

1、 Microsoft will introduce all Blizzard games to Nvidia platform

Microsoft President Smith said at a news conference that after Nintendo, Microsoft announced a 10-year agreement with Nvidia that Xbox PC games and Activision Blizzard games (including "COD") will be launched on the GeForce Now cloud game platform with immediate effect after Microsoft's successful acquisition of Activision Blizzard. He also said that if the deal is completed, it will bring all Activision Blizzard games to GeForce Now. In January, Nvidia opposed Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft is trying to save the troubled deal, which faces regulatory hurdles at home and abroad. While the deal is being reviewed in Europe, FTC has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the deal.

2、  Microsoft is "soft" before an important EU hearing: it is "willing to allay concerns" in order to secure a $69 billion acquisition of Blizzard.

In order to preserve the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, Microsoft has been "subdued" to EU antitrust agencies. European Union regulators held a closed-door hearing on Microsoft's acquisition of Blizzard in Brussels on Tuesday. Before the hearing, BradSmith, Microsoft's president, defended the acquisition, saying it would bring more competition to the gaming industry and promising to address regulatory concerns about antitrust.

3、 Microsoft has tested the integrated image creator function in Bing search to generate pictures based on text AI

According to news from IT House on February 23, Microsoft launched a preview version of the Image Builder (Image Creator) in October last year, which allows users to generate pictures from AI by entering text descriptions. According to the foreign technology media Search Engine Roundtable, Microsoft has tested the integrated image creator in the new version of Bing in some countries and regions.

It House is accompanied by Microsoft's official introduction to the image creator: "the Image Creator is a product that helps users generate AI images using DALL-E." When you get a text prompt, AI generates a set of images that match the prompt. Currently, the image creator only supports English prompts. We will support other languages in the future. Netizen Khushal Bherwani shared the new version of Bing after integrating the image creator in the tweet, displaying the "create any image" button when searching for images.

4、 Microsoft introduces Al chatbot to iPhone and Android Bing APP

Microsoft announced on Wednesday the release of new Bing and Edge preview apps for iPhone and Android, including new features such as voice search and access to its Al chat robot, according to Sina Finance. In the Bing mobile app, users can click the Bing icon to start a chat session and ask a variety of questions via text or voice. Users will also be able to access Bing's update function through the home page of the Edge mobile app. In addition, Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Bing, which will introduce an artificial intelligence version to Skype, will release a preview worldwide. Users can add Microsoft's artificial intelligence to the group chat and ask it questions. The chatbot will provide the answer for the whole team.

Google

1、 Google announces Breakthrough in Quantum computer error Correction Technology

According to the latest article published in the journal Nature, Google has announced a breakthrough in correcting the inherent errors of current quantum computers. This marks an early but potentially significant step in solving the biggest technical obstacle to quantum computing. Hartmut Nevin, head of Google's quantum computing project, said the new discovery marked "an important milestone in our development of practical quantum computers" and that error correction was "a problem that any quantum computing technology must solve". In an article published this week, Google researchers said they were "cautious" about the latest breakthrough. They say there is still a chance that error correction will not work when it is later applied to larger quantum systems.

2、 Google pays Apple $20 billion in "protection money" to secure the Safari search engine "moat""

As we all know, search engine, as an important part of various browsers, has always been a "battleground". In foreign countries, there are Google, Yandex, Yahoo, Bing, etc.; in China, there are familiarBaidu, 360, Sogou, etc. As of December 2022, Google had nearly 84 per cent of the search market, according to Statista. Over the years, it has almost dominated the overseas search engine market in a monopoly position.

It has been revealed that Google pays Apple a large fee every year in order to persuade Apple to use Google Search as its default search engine in its Safari browser. At the same time, for the sake of the default search engine in Safari and other commercial interests, in addition to publicly paying high fees every year, Google will also share some of the search revenue generated by iOS Chrome with Apple.

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Don't miss other hot spots too ~

1、 China's first large-scale space intelligent open laboratory unveiled! Deductive space intelligent surprise

On the way of accelerating the transformation of space intelligence, Huawei's whole-house intelligence has been focused on both inside and outside the industry. just recently, Huawei's whole-house intelligence announced a major news-February 24. Huawei Ark 1 Space Intelligence Open Lab was officially unveiled in Longgang, Shenzhen.

It is reported that Huawei Ark No. 1 Space Intelligent Open Laboratory is the first large-scale space intelligent open laboratory in China. At present, Huawei Ark 1 Space Intelligent Open Laboratory has three major functional areas: industrial ecological development area, industrial achievement exhibition area and joint open laboratory. The first phase covers an area of 8600 square meters, centering on the three-dimensional planning of "politics, industry, learning, research and exhibition". Drive the whole industry chain, co-create, co-build, share and win-win. Following personal intelligence and travel intelligence, space intelligence has become an irreversible trend and shows its market value. According to a survey conducted by iResearch Consulting on the degree of intelligent life of users in 2021, the intelligence of the whole house ranks first with a demand proportion of 60.7%, which is enough to show that the intelligence of the whole house is becoming one of the most widely recognized ways to realize intelligent life.

2、 The integrated computing service platform of East and West is officially put into operation.

According to CCTV news, on the morning of February 24, the integrated computing service platform of East, West and West was released in Yinchuan, Ningxia and officially put into operation. The "calculation of the East and the West" project is one of the projects of China's 14th five-year Plan. With the comprehensive opening of the digital economy era, as an important "base" support, the role of empowerment has become increasingly prominent, and computing power has become an important new type of productive forces. With the accelerated implementation of the strategy of "calculating East and West", Ningxia, aiming at the most scarce and rigid demand for ChatGPT computing power, has started the construction of GPU big computing base in Zhongwei, Ningxia. When completed, it will be connected to the integrated trading platform of Eastern Mathematical and Western Computing to support the large computing services urgently needed by the domestic artificial intelligence computing platform.

3、 In 2023, Internet companies blow the horn of "integration".

With the mutual invasion of large companies in the field of business, it is not difficult to see that the battlefield of Internet companies is shifting from crazy investment and acquisition to the development of new business. There were 190 mergers and acquisitions of Internet companies in 2022, 61.5% less than in 2021.

In 2022, Douyin acquired seven companies, making it the Internet company with the most mergers and acquisitions in 2022. From the end of 2014 to the beginning of 2022, Douyin made more than 240 investments and mergers and acquisitions, covering nearly 20 fields, including education, finance, automobile, real estate, health care, local life, games, entertainment, artificial intelligence, enterprise services and meta-universe. Under the tide of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, in January 2022, the byte jump investment department was completely abolished. Tencent, a big investor, also changed its focus in 2022.

In 2021 alone, Tencent acquired and invested in more than 100 game companies. In 2022, Tencent began to shift its investment focus to overseas markets, and the proportion of overseas investment increased from 16.3% in 2021 to 41.6% in 2022. At the same time, the amount of investment has also fallen sharply, with Tencent investing in only 11 game companies worldwide in the first three quarters of 2022. The era of crazy buying is over, and now the big companies are starting to go deep into each other's hinterland from the business end, finally forming a situation of business melee: Douyin from group purchase to takeout, Meituan picked up short videos again, and social platforms have become popular.

4、Sources say consulting giant McKinsey plans to lay off about 2000 people

Global consulting giant McKinsey plans to lay off about 2000 people, one of the largest layoffs in the company's history, according to people familiar with the matter. The layoffs are expected to mainly target support staff who do not have direct connections to the company's customers. The layoffs are part of McKinsey's Project Magnolia, which the consulting firm hopes will help protect its partners 'compensation pools.

5 、SHEIN's latest financing is about to be delivered, and many giants PE are starting

There is new news on SHEIN's financing and IPO trends, which the market is closely watching. Compared with previous media reports, this information increase mainly includes the list of new round of investment institutions and valuation ranges.

Just last week, multiple sources pointed out that the world's third-largest unicorn may go to the United States for an IPO later this year. Financial Times reported that SHEIN executives revealed to investors in a presentation that the company will achieve annual revenue of US$58.5 billion in 2025, and expects GMV to grow to US$80.6 billion and profit to US$7.5 billion by 2025. During the downturn in the global investment market, SHEIN was not only "looking for money" in the primary and secondary markets, but was also actively looking for other ways to maintain its development momentum, such as hiring former SoftBank executives to explore the Latin American market, trying third-party platform models, Expanding high-end product lines to increase customer unit prices, and launching payment services to reduce costs.