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、Douyin becomes the world's largest unicorn company, worth $1.56 trillion

Recently, Hurun Research Institute released the "2024 Global Unicorn list". Founded in 2012, byte Jump has become the world's most valuable unicorn with a value of 1.56 trillion yuan for the third year in a row. According to previous media reports, total revenue from byte jump achieved double-digit growth in 2023 compared with the same period last year, with more than 700 billion yuan, mainly from domestic advertising and e-commerce. The accuracy of this data is unknown and there is no response from the byte side. However, this revenue estimate has surpassed social media platforms such as Tencent and Facebook to approach Meta.

2、Wechat will access Hongmeng's NEXT system, and Huawei will adopt the same ios tombstone mechanism to push.

According to reports, negotiations between Huawei and Tencent on Wechat push mechanism ended, allowing Huawei to adopt the push method with i05 tombstone mechanism, and Wechat to access Hongmeng NEXT. It is reported that Wechat has been a major problem in Huawei's Hongmeng camp for many years, and its misadaptation has plagued many users. Although Huawei launched Hongmeng OS2.0 in 2021, the adaptation of Wechat has not been resolved, which has become an important factor restricting sales growth. However, the announcement at the developer conference that Wechat would be adapted to Hongmeng's system was reminiscent of Huawei's earlier announcement of the acquisition of Shanghai Semiconductor. The acquisition is seen as an important move by Huawei to develop its own chips and provides support for Wechat to adapt to Hongmeng's system. (bad Review hardware Department)

3、TikTok is about to launch an Instagram competition, named TikTok Notes

According to screenshots posted by users, TikTok is about to launch a competitive Instagram application, named TikTok Notes. TikTok also confirms that the application is under development. In the past few days, TikTok users have received pop-up notifications about the new TikTok Notes app to share photos. The company is about to launch a "new photo posting app" called TikTok Notes, where users can share existing photo posts or choose not to share them, the notice said. (home of IT)

4、Taobao rocket delivery is coming? Or will achieve global "hourly access"

April 1 news, Taobao is experimenting with rocket delivery. Arrow Technology, a domestic commercial rocket company that provides core technical support for the project, has announced that it is working with Taobao to launch a pilot project to use carrier rocket reusable technology to deliver express parcels. It is planned to conduct the first cargo rocket recovery test in the middle of the year and send the first Taobao space express delivery. If the project goes well, Taobao will truly achieve global "hourly arrival" in the future. (source: RogoNet)

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Trends of large companies

Baidu

1、Wen Xin has a new function online, and the sound can be customized in 2 seconds.

36 Krypton learned that Wenxin has a new function online, and the sound can be customized in 2 seconds. Open Wen Xin Yiyan App, select create Agent, click to create your own voice, read out a paragraph according to the prompts of the system, about 2 seconds, you can get a customized sound.

OpenAI

1、Visual version of GPT-4 Turbo blockbuster upgrade! Limit or cancel 40 messages on ChatGPT

OpenAI released the official version of GPT-4 Turbo, which has visual function, can handle 128k context, and the training data is up to December 2023. After the introduction of visual ability, GPT-4 Turbo performs poorly in the coding task, and the score of code editing ability is 62%, which is the lowest in GPT-4 models. OpenAI removes the limit of 40 messages per 3 hours in GPT-4 and dynamically adjusts the number of user requests according to the busy degree of the system, but the user feedback experience is different. (Xin Zhiyuan)

2、Demand for OpenAI:ChatGPT Enterprise Edition is growing rapidly

OpenAI Chief operating Officer Brad Wright Kepp (Brad Lightcap) told Bloomberg BusinessWeek on Thursday that the enterprise version of ChatGPT currently has more than 600000 registered users. OpenAI reported in January 2024 that the number of registered users for Enterprise ChatGPT was 150000, which means that in the past three months, the number of registered users has increased by 450000, or 300%. "this year will be a year for enterprises to promote and popularize AI, and it has shown a strong driving force," Letterkip said in an interview. OpenAI currently employs about 1200 people and plans to open an office in Tokyo, according to Letterkip. (home of IT)

Tencent

1、Tencent document adjustment strategy: new online documents will take up personal storage space

According to the news on April 8, the Tencent document team recently optimized the rules for the use of personal storage space, which involves the question of whether users' newly created online documents will take up storage space. It is understood that from April 10, 2024, users' newly created online documents in Tencent documents will begin to occupy personal storage space. It is important to note, however, that online documents created by users before April 10, 2024 will not take up storage space, but if users modify and edit these documents later, they will begin to take up storage space. At the same time, the rule that local files uploaded by users to Tencent documents take up storage space remains unchanged. (home of IT)

JingDong

1 、JD.com responded that 1 billion cash support layout is true in the field of short videos.

People close to JD.com said that JD.com is recently focusing on internal discussions on how to lay out the field of short videos. For this reason, JD.com 's senior management has repeatedly organized small-scale discussions and formed a consensus to determine the key investment in the short video track. The cash subsidy is on the order of 1 billion. In recent years, Douyin, Kuaishou and Wechat video accounts have all obtained a lot of traffic in the field of short videos, and rely on the traffic to enter the field of e-commerce. JD.com responded that the rumors are true and will invest a billion in cash and a billion in flow as a reward to attract more original authors and high-quality content organizations. (financial Union)

Alibaba

1 、Aliyun rolled overseas, and the price of core cloud products was reduced by 23% across the board, with a maximum drop of 59%.

On April 8, following the across-the-board price reduction in China a month ago, Aliyun began to expand overseas: overseas markets cut prices across the board, covering core cloud products and more than 500 product specifications deployed in 13 regional nodes around the world, with an average drop of 23% and a maximum drop of 59%. After the price reduction, the price of Aliyun's cloud products in the overseas market is lower than that of other international mainstream cloud manufacturers. Compared with the price reduction a month ago, this price adjustment is mainly aimed at overseas markets. The 13 regional nodes of the price reduction include Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the United States (east and west coast), Germany, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, China. At present, Aliyun serves more than 5 million customers in more than 200 countries around the world. According to Gartner, Aliyun's market share ranks third in the world and first in Asia-Pacific in 2022.

2 、Ali's overseas "Project No. 1" has been exposed, Huawei and Lenovo have joined.

On the morning of April 8, the official account "Alibaba Global Express" on Wechat announced that it would launch "10 billion subsidized brands to go abroad" to promote more brand merchants and products to enter overseas markets. It is said that the project is regarded as the "No. 1 project" of AliExpress in 2024. At noon on the same day, people close to Ali International Digital Business Group (AIDC) confirmed this statement. Some analysts believe that AliExpress's launch of the brand out to sea is aimed at seeking greater room for growth through high unit price supply. Data show that under the "10 billion subsidized Brand going to Sea" project, merchants can enter with one click in the "full escrow" mode, as long as the products are put on the shelves, and the platform contracts, operations, sales, logistics, and other complex links, greatly reducing the threshold for brands to go to sea. (observer Network)

3 、Us sanctions on Chinese chips escalated, Ali said: we will overcome the chip barrier.

Recently, US sanctions on Huawei chips have escalated again, restricting not only the export of artificial intelligence chips, but also laptop chips. In response, Alibaba said that in the long run, China can make high-end GPUs, although its cloud services will continue to be affected by the US chip export ban. Cai Chongxin, chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, said that in the medium term, restrictions on advanced US chips could still damage Alibaba's cloud business and its ability to provide high-end computing services. But Mr Tsai added that China would develop its own capacity to produce high-end GPU, which is the key to the expansion of artificial intelligence. Currently, companies like Alibaba mainly use high-computing GPU produced by Nvidia and other chipmakers, which they stockpiled before the U. S. ban. (bullwhip)

Huawei

1 、Huawei Guan Xuan Chao 4000 app joined Hongmeng Ecology, which increased 20-fold in two months.

On April 7, Huawei announced that more than 4000 apps had joined Hongmeng Ecology. It is worth noting that from January 18 this year, Huawei announced that the first batch of more than 200 app manufacturers were accelerating the development of Hongmeng native applications, to more than 4000 applications by the end of March, a 20-fold increase in just two months. It is understood that CCTV is the first in the industry to complete the full version development of Hongmeng native applications, while top applications such as bilibili, Xiao Hongshu, iqiyi, Himalayas, WPS Office, China Merchants Bank and Postal savings Bank have completed Beta version development. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)

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Don't miss other hot spots too ~

one、Us Senate discusses extending the deadline for "byte jump stripping TikTok" to one year until after the US election

Maria Cantwell, chairman of the US Senate Commerce Committee, said on April 10th that lawmakers might extend the deadline for forcing byte jumps to divest TikTok US assets to one year. Earlier, congressional officials said they had discussed the idea of an one-year deadline. Extending the deadline would postpone any possible TikTok ban until 2025, after the presidential election in November. (interface News)

2、 Another brain-computer interface startup Synchron is preparing to conduct a large-scale implantation trial.

Synchron, a brain-computer interface start-up, recently revealed that it is preparing to recruit patients for large-scale clinical trials in an effort to promote the commercialization and clinical use of brain implants. Synchron plans to launch an online registration service on Monday to recruit patients interested in the trial, with the goal of recruiting dozens of participants, Thomas Oxley, chief executive of the company, said recently. Synchron has received interest or interest from about 120 clinical trial centers to run the trial, and they hope to help advance the research.

3、 Canadian Prime Minister: 2.4 billion Canadian dollars to be invested in artificial Intelligence

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau announced on April 7 that a package of measures totaling 2.4 billion Canadian dollars (12.77 billion yuan) will be announced to invest in the country's artificial intelligence (AI) sector. This initiative includes an investment of C $2 billion to provide computing and technical infrastructure for Canadian artificial intelligence researchers, start-ups and large-scale enterprises. The budget will be presented on April 16. (micro-net)

4、 Kimi continues to "hang" the AI models of major domestic manufacturers, aiming for further expansion overseas.

It is reported that since the advent of Kimi, it has been "hoisting" AI models from major domestic manufacturers. As of March 25, the user DAU of Kimi's web page end and app side broke through the all-time high, reaching 790000 and 540000 respectively. Superimposed by the number of Mini Program users, the total DAU of the whole end is significantly greater than 2.25 million, or has exceededBaidu2.33 million of the words of its big model Wen Xin. Half a month ago, on March 10th, the full-end DAU of Kimi had just exceeded 1.2 million. But as early as February, Kimi's user visits reached 3.05 million, more than double the number in January. Meanwhile,BaiduFor the two major TOP2 players, Wen Xin Yiyan and Tongyi Qianwen, owned by Ali, the number of user visits fell sharply, by 33.42% and 45.05% respectively. In the next step of expansion, the dark side of the moon points overseas. At present, the dark side of the month is recruiting domestic / foreign effect advertising designers. (NetEase Technology)

5 、 Italy considers tougher penalties for AI-related crimes

According to media reports, the Italian government is considering imposing more severe penalties for crimes involving the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The draft law seen by the media shows that it has a total of 25 articles, stipulating the general principles of "research, experimentation, development, adoption and application" of AI in Italy to deal with the impact of AI on basic rights and related economic and social risks. The draft increases penalties for market manipulation through AI and stipulates that using AI to launder money is an aggravating circumstance. It also stipulates fines for copyright infringement through AI and up to three years in prison for using AI to replace others. (Cailian)

6 、 Mercedes-Benz recalls more than 340,000 vehicles for fire hazards Bloomberg

On April 11, it was reported that Mercedes-Benz recalled 340956 GLE and GLS models produced between 2017 and 2023 due to potential fire hazards. (Interface News)