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Lei Jun will return to the live broadcast at 7pm tonight; Musk: It is expected that humanoid robots will be mass-produced for other companies in 2026; It is rumored that MiHoYo's new game has been uninstalled by a large number of players｜Geek Early Knowledge

Moonshot2024/07/23

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Forbes announced the "2024 China's Best CEOs", including Pinduoduo's Chen Lei, Zhao Jiazhen, Xiaomi's Lei Jun, Nongfu Spring's Zhong Shanshan and others on the list; Jia Yueting announced FF's second brand plan: to create a people's car with the ultimate price-performance ratio; it was revealed that the iPhone 17 is expected to be equipped with a 120Hz screen across the board

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced that the "2024 Annual Speech Encore Live Broadcast" will be held at 7 pm tonight

On July 22, Xiaomi founder, chairman and CEO Lei Jun announced in the evening that he would start a live broadcast at 7 pm today to chat with netizens about the story behind this year's annual speech.

Lei Jun said that due to limited time for this year's Lei Jun Annual Speech, "there are still many stories that I haven't had time to tell you." Judging from the poster he posted, this live broadcast is called "2024 Lei Jun Annual Speech Return Live Broadcast" and will be jointly participated in with Xiaomi Auto Vice President Li Xiaoshuang. Judging from the live broadcast lineup, this live broadcast is expected to mainly reveal information about Xiaomi Auto. (Source: IT Home)

Nvidia is rumored to launch a China-specific version of the "Blackwell" architecture B20 accelerator

On July 22, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Nvidia is developing a version of its AI chip based on the new Blackwell GPU architecture for the Chinese market. The model is tentatively named "B20," and this version will comply with previous U.S. export control policies.

According to the export control policy introduced by the United States in October 2022, the TPP (total processing power) of GPUs exported by NVIDIA to China needs to be less than 4800 points. The original A100/H100 exceeded this limit, which forced NVIDIA to launch the "castrated" A800/H800.

In March this year, Nvidia released its new generation of B200 series chips based on the "Blackwell" architecture, with 208 billion transistors, more than twice the 80 billion transistors of H100/H200, and 20 petaflops performance, five times that of H100 (4 petaflops). It is understood that B200 will be mass-produced later this year.

Similarly, Nvidia also plans to launch a "castrated version" based on B200 for the Chinese market - B20. However, given the restrictions of the US export control policy, the performance of Nvidia B20 will be greatly reduced compared to B200. Compared with H20, its performance may not bring much improvement, but its HBM capacity is expected to be further improved, which is a great help for AI training and reasoning. It is also expected to go into production later this year. (Source: Sohu Technology)

Musk: Tesla is expected to mass-produce humanoid robots in 2026 for use by other companies

On July 22, Musk posted on X (Twitter) that Tesla will produce "truly useful" robots for internal use within the company next year, but only on a small scale. In 2026, Tesla is expected to mass-produce humanoid robots for use by other companies.

During the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference on July 4 this year, Tesla's second-generation humanoid robot Optimus was unveiled.

Recently, the second-generation Optimus has been trying to "work" in Tesla's factory. With the help of visual neural networks and FSD chips, the second-generation Optimus can imitate human operations and conduct battery sorting training.

Musk announced at the shareholders' meeting last month that Tesla's future is betting on the Optimus robot project. The current humanoid robot market produces 1 billion units per year, and Tesla will occupy at least 10% of the market share in the future. Musk said at the time that Tesla mass-produced robots at a price of about $10,000 per unit and sold them at a price of $20,000 (currently about 146,000 yuan), thereby making a profit of $1 trillion. In addition, Musk believes that by 2026, Optimus will become a fully software-customized robot. (Source: IT Home)

Microsoft technical failure may cause global losses of more than $1 billion

On July 22, Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economics Group, an American research institution, estimated that the economic losses caused by the Microsoft technology failure incident are likely to exceed $1 billion. However, reports said it is unclear whether Crowdstrike will pay for the related losses.

Although Crowdstrike has apologized, it has not responded to inquiries from the US media about whether it will compensate affected customers. Some analysts pointed out that there may be exemption clauses in the contracts signed between Crowdstrike and its customers, which can allow it to avoid compensation. (Source: CCTV News)