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、 JD.com v. Alibaba won the case of "choosing one of the two" in the first instance and won a compensation of 1 billion yuan.

On December 29th, the Beijing Municipal higher people's Court made a judgment of first instance in the case of JD.com v. Zhejiang Tmall Network Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Tmall Technology Co., Ltd., and Alibaba Group holding Co., Ltd. it was found that its monopoly of abusing its dominant market position and implementing the monopoly of "choosing one from two" was established, which caused serious damage to JD.com and ordered to compensate JD.com 1 billion yuan. This verdict is not only a fair ruling by JD.com against the monopoly behavior of "choosing one of the two", but also a landmark moment for maintaining the order of fair competition in the market with the rule of law, and it will also be an important stroke in the process of China's anti-monopoly rule of law.

From the lawsuit initiated by JD.com in 2017 to resist the monopoly of "choosing one of the two", to 2023 when JD.com broke the hidden rules of "super anchor price monopoly", JD.com always sought development for brands and merchants and competed for low prices for consumers. This verdict has greatly encouraged JD.com 's business belief that he has always adhered to the right path and success, and we will devote ourselves to promoting the high-quality development of the real economy with stronger confidence.

2、The number of parcels shipped by Shein and Temu to US customers has soared to about 1 million per day.

Before Christmas this year, fast fashion company Shein and pinduoduo's cross-border e-commerce platform Temu have seen a surge in the number of packages shipped to US customers, almost on a par with several well-known US retailers. The two fast-growing shopping platforms ship an average of about 1 million parcels a day in the United States, according to parcel transportation consultancy ShipMatrix. Although this figure accounts for a small proportion of the total number of parcels shipped every day in the United States, it is growing rapidly. (NetEase Technology)

3、Google is exposed to another massive layoff, and 30, 000 employees may be replaced by AI.

Following the 12000 layoffs at the beginning of the year, it was revealed that Google would reorganize its advertising sales department, and AI automation tools put 30, 000 employees at risk of layoffs. At a recent department meeting, SeanDowney, who is in charge of advertising sales for major customers in the Americas, said that Google plans to restructure its advertising sales team. Google will consolidate its staff, possibly including layoffs and reassigning employees in its major account sales department who oversee relationships with major advertisers, according to people familiar with the matter. These employees are responsible for designing customized advertising campaigns for major clients and recommending new advertising opportunities based on the customer's product portfolio. With the application of artificial intelligence in Google's advertising business, there is less and less demand for these salespeople in many scenarios. (Sina Technology)

4、Huawei insider: the Hongmeng operating system on PC is nearing completion.

According to media reports, quoting Huawei insiders, apart from mobile phone Hongmeng, the Hongmeng operating system on the PC is nearing completion, and the Hongmeng system is about to become independent and move towards more terminals, which is behind the stable basic disk and accelerated return of Huawei mobile phones. (home of IT)

5 、The number of underage netizens in China has reached 193 million, and the Internet penetration rate is 97.2%.

Recently, the official account of the Ministry of Rights and interests of the Communist Youth League Central Committee released the results of the 5th National investigation report on the Internet use of minors. According to the report, the scale of underage netizens in China is expanding, and the number of underage netizens has exceeded 193 million in 2022. From 2018 to 2022, the Internet penetration rate of minors increased from 93.7% to 97.2%. In addition, 61.5% of underage netizens believe that the current management method of limiting the length of game time has significantly reduced the amount of time they or their classmates spend playing games, the report said. As a result, the proportion of underage netizens who often watch short videos has increased from 40.5% in 2018 to 54.1% in 2022. (fast Technology)

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Trends of large companies

Dou Yin

1、Douyin internal test "AI search" function? Responsible person: this function is still under testing and is not yet mature.

Recently, several media reported that Douyin has tested a new function called "AI search" in APP. This is a search question and answer service based on artificial intelligence, which can provide answers for users. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Douyin told reporters that the relevant functions are still under testing and are not yet mature. (financial Union)

JingDong

1、JD.com Group: starting from next year, the salaries of front-line business personnel such as procurement and sales will increase by nearly 100%.

On the evening of December 27th, JD.com Group announced that the annual fixed salary of JD.com 's purchasing and sales and other front-line business staff will rise by nearly 100% from January 1, 2024, and the average salary increase for all JD.com retail staff will be no less than 20% at the beginning of 2024. (Tencent Technology)

Ali Yun

1、Aliyun readjusted: cut customized projects and hardware integration business

It is reported that Aliyun is reducing the project-based business of customizing industry solutions for government and enterprise customers, cutting hardware integration business and reducing related personnel in the IoT (Internet of things) business line. The proportion of layoffs among some teams in the hybrid cloud division has reached 30%. The proportion of layoffs in IoT hardware integration business is more than 50%, and the rest of the department will be dispersed and transferred to other businesses. At the same time, Aliyun is expanding recruitment in the Public Cloud and AI departments. Aliyun recruitment website is currently looking for about 500 jobs, with more than 1500 people. (LatePost later)

Tencent

1、Tencent adjusts the organizational structure of WeChat Pay and Video account to increase the investment in live streaming.

According to Kechuangban Daily, a number of people familiar with the matter have reported that Wechat Video account is increasing its investment in resources for live streaming and has adjusted the organizational structure of WeChat Pay and Video account teams. Two people familiar with the matter said that it was mainly to get through WeChat Pay and the video number, and the two teams worked together. One of the people familiar with the matter said that this adjustment began around Singles Day this year, and the idea of the adjustment is that more resources will be invested in live streaming goods in the later stage.

Tesla

1、Tesla robot violently hurt people? Musk responded.

In the early morning of December 28th, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to the incident that "robots hurt people in a factory in Tesla." Is he here? According to the platform, "the media (mainly the Daily Mail) dug up the damage caused by a simple industrial Kuka robotic arm (available in all factories) two years ago and hinted that it was now caused by a humanoid robot Optimus Prime. It's shameful." According to previous reports, Musk insisted at Tesla's 2023 shareholders' meeting that Tesla did the best job in the industry in terms of factory safety, "or the company with the lowest injury rate per capita." According to the survey, almost one in 21 workers at the Tesla factory was injured at work in 2022, while the industry average was one in 30 workers. (interface)

SHEIN

1、SHEIN has become one of the fastest growing brands in the United States in 2023.

According to a survey released by Morning Consult, a well-known and authoritative consulting firm in the United States, SHEIN was also listed in the "Top Ten fastest growing Brands list in 2023" and "Top Ten fastest growing Brands in 2023 Millennium", ranking fourth and second respectively, becoming the only Chinese brand on the list alongside many international well-known brands such as ChatGPT, Zelle, OpenAI, Facebook, CocaCola and so on.

Temu

1、The number of searches on Temu's annual UK hot search list soared by 2850%.

Temu successfully entered the UK's annual hot search list, with the latest Google trend data revealing the search buzzwords most followed by Britons in 2023, with Temu's performance particularly dazzling. Statistics as of Dec. 21 showed that the number of searches on Temu surged by a staggering 2850% compared with the same period last year, surpassing even this year's high-profile ChatGPT (up 2700%). According to foreign media reports, Temu has come to the fore in the UK market, becoming the most downloaded shopping app, with an estimated 9 million users.

Baidu

1、 BaiduWen Xin big model is the first to pass the standard test of the national big model, and the number of users has exceeded 100 million.

On December 22, at the plenary meeting of the artificial Intelligence Sub-Committee of the National Information Technology Standardization Technology CommitteeBaiduThe first batch of Wenxin big model passed the standard compliance test of large model. " December twenty _ eighthBaiduWang Haifeng, chief technology officer and director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and applications, announced at the 10th WAVE SUMMIT Deep Learning developers Conference that the number of users of Wen Xin word has exceeded 100 million. Since it was allowed to provide services to the public on August 31, the number of questions raised by users of Wenxin has risen all the way, basically synchronized with the improvement of the effect of Wenxin model.

Apple

1、Suspension of AppleWatch injunction

On Wednesday, a US appeals court suspended ITC's import ban on some Apple smartwatches, meaning sales of Apple's Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 products can be temporarily resumed.

Vivo

1、Two senior executives of vivo India were reported to have been detained in India, and vivo responded

On December 23, according to several media reports, the Indian Law Enforcement Agency recently arrested a number of vivo India executives on the grounds of an "anti-money laundering investigation". It was reported that the detained employees included vivo India interim CEO and CFO. A vivo spokesman said he was "deeply shocked", saying that the Indian authorities "show that harassment continues and bring uncertainty to the industry as a whole." In October, India's financial law enforcement agency also arrested vivo employees on suspicion of money laundering. (interface News)

Huawei

1、Huawei reported that Hayes chip technology was stolen, Zhang Kun was missing for several months, and Xiaomi spoke urgently.

Recently, Shanghai police successfully cracked a case of infringing on the trade secrets of chip technology, arrested 14 suspects and seized 7 servers storing infringing chip technology. According to investigation, in February 2021, Zhang, Liu and others, former senior executives of the rights company, set up a technology company after leaving office to induce a number of R & D personnel of the former rights company to move to their companies by means of high salary and stock inducement, and instructed these personnel to illegally obtain the chip technical information of the rights company by means of excerpt and screen capture before leaving, plagiarize and apply it to the same type of chips designed by Zhang. In an attempt to make an illegal profit. Zhang was mentioned in the case as Zhang Kun, founder and CEO of Zunpai Communication, and according to people close to him, Zhang Kun has been missing for several months.

On the evening of December 24, Xiaomi Group issued an official statement in response to the online case of Zunpai plagiarizing and stealing Huawei chip secrets: Xiaomi is not involved in the direct management and operation of the chip company. nor does it have any intellectual property or technical cooperation with the company.

Nvidia

1、Nvidia releases RTX 4090 D graphics cards for the Chinese market, starting at nearly 13000 yuan

Before the end of 2023, Nvidia released a new product for the Chinese market for the first time in response to new US export restrictions, launching a graphics card RTX 4090 D for Chinese gamers. According to Nvidia's official website, the starting price of the RTX 4090 D graphics card is 12999 yuan, the same as the RTX 4090. (round-the-clock technology)

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Don't miss other hot spots too ~

one、OpenAI competitor Anthropic expects annual revenue of $850 million next year.

OpenAI's competitor Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, is expected to have annual revenues of more than $850 million by the end of 2024, according to foreign media citing people familiar with the matter. Anthropic has told some investors that it has annualised revenues of $100m and is expected to reach $500m by the end of 2024, but it is not clear why the latest forecasts are much higher. The new forecast comes as Anthropic is pressing ahead with a fund-raising plan to raise about $750 million from Menlo Ventures and other investors, with a pre-investment valuation of $15 billion, at least three times the valuation of the early 2023 financing round. (financial Union)

2、New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI

According to market sources, the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright issues, mainly because the two companies used works published by the New York Times to train their AI technology without authorization. The New York Times also became the first major US media organization to sue these AI companies. The New York Times said in the indictment that millions of articles it published were used by OpenAI and Microsoft to train its automatic chat robots, which now compete with the New York Times as a source of reliable information. (Sina Technology)

3、 The new number "Walking with Hui" has more than a million fans. Dong Yuhui: I can also sell what can be sold by Oriental in the future.

On December 26, Dong Yuhui's new account "Peer with Hui" has been certified by the platform, and the authentication information is "with Hui Peer (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.". Only one night passed, and as of the afternoon of December 27th, the number of followers of the account had reached 1.097 million, rising to one million overnight. Prior to this, Dong Yuhui said in a live broadcast that independent studios in the future will continue to sell agricultural products in large quantities. "Mr. Yu talked to me that I can sell what can be sold by Oriental selection in the future. The goods can be completely coincident or alternate with each other. Everything is trying. " Dong Yuhui said that in so many years in New Oriental, his own experience is that any enterprise, good managers have, but more important than good managers are good service providers. (financial Network Technology)

4、 Robot chef: the world's first fully automated AI restaurant is about to open

The world's first restaurant with robots and artificial intelligence to handle orders and food is about to open in Southern California, and the restaurant "CaliExpress by Flippy" will be cooked by robotic chefs, upending the traditional catering model. Flippy is the world's first artificial intelligence fried robot developed by Miso Robotics, specializing in hamburger, cheeseburger and French fries cooking. The company claims that Flippy can work side by side with human chefs to improve the quality and consistency of dishes while saving restaurants considerable costs. (home of IT)

5 、 Virtual goods have become a new consumption trend, and "Einstein's brain" is among the top ten goods of the year on Taobao.

On December 25, Taobao unveiled the top 10 products of 2023, and "Einstein's brain" became the first virtual product, representing the consumption preference of a new generation of young people for emotional value. Virtual goods on Taobao ushered in an outbreak this year, with virtual mosquitoes and scolding love brains causing widespread discussion. It is reported that the annual commodity is based on Taobao hot search index and hot-selling trend, produced by netizens' vote and expert discussion, and has a wide range of social influence. As a national e-commerce platform, the annual merchandise announced by Taobao every year reflects a diverse social picture, as well as witnessing the vitality and fashion changes of consumption.

6 、Keep up with pinduoduo, Taobao and JD.com to promote the "refund only" function.

A few days ago, Taobao issued a notice on changing the dispute handling rules of Taobao platform. Among them, a new rule is added: if the seller gets too many bad reviews or violation records on Taobao platform, once he receives a complaint, he may face a direct refund or only a refund. This rule has been interpreted by the outside world as a change measure made in the footsteps of pinduoduo. It is reported that the rule was formally implemented on December 26. In addition, JD.com recently revised JD.com 's after-sales and transaction dispute handling policy, adding a new standard for users to refund only. Since then, the three major domestic e-commerce platforms have joined the "refund only" camp. (source: RogoNet)

7 、 AI Pin will be delivered in March next year: interactive on the palm with built-in OpenAI technology.

AI Pin, a wearable artificial intelligence device launched by US startup Humane, will begin delivery in March next year. It is a kind of micro projection placed on clothing, which can be cast on the palm of the hand to interact with each other, and has built-in OpenAI technology. (round-the-clock technology)