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Luo Yonghao commented on Dong Yuhui's resignation: If you can't stand bad people, you can only start a business; Xiaopeng flying car was exposed, six-wheel drive; Downey returns to the new "Avengers" movie, Iron Man becomes a villain

Wan Chen 2024/07/29

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Alibaba's big model veteran Yang Hongxia's whereabouts officially announced; Tesla's "True Smart Summon" feature will be released next month

By 2030, global chip sales will reach $1 trillion

Global semiconductor sales are expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030, analysts reported at the annual Semicon West trade show in San Francisco earlier this month. Charles Shi of Needham & Co and Gaurav Gupta of Gartner agreed, with Gupta predicting the milestone will be reached between 2031 and 2032.

Gupta also predicts that semiconductor production capacity will achieve double-digit growth in 2024 and 2025, and semiconductor production capacity will increase by more than 50% by the end of 2020.

From artificial intelligence and automobiles to the rise of smart spaces and commercial drones, chips are expected to remain in high demand as autonomy, labor, power and geopolitical forces shape the future. (Source: Semiconductor Industry Observer)

Meta training Llama 3 encounters frequent failures: 16384 H100 GPU training cluster "strikes" every 3 hours

On July 28, Meta released a research report showing that its 16,384 Nvidia H100 graphics card clusters used to train the 405 billion parameter model Llama 3 experienced 419 unexpected failures in 54 days, an average of one every three hours. More than half of the failures were caused by the graphics card or its high-bandwidth memory (HBM3).

Due to the huge scale of the system and the high degree of synchronization of tasks, a single graphics card failure may cause the entire training task to be interrupted and need to be restarted. Despite this, the Meta team still maintained more than 90% of the effective training time.

During the 54-day pre-training, there were 466 work interruptions, of which 47 were planned and 419 were unexpected. Planned interruptions were caused by automated maintenance, while unexpected interruptions were mainly caused by hardware problems. GPU problems were the main cause of failures, accounting for 58.7% of unexpected interruptions. Only three of the incidents required extensive manual intervention, and the rest were managed automatically. (Source: IT Home)

It is reported that Luo Wei, former chief imaging engineer of Huawei, has joined the Honor team

On July 28, blogger @旺仔百事通 posted today that former Huawei imaging chief Luo Wei has now joined the Honor imaging team.

Luo Wei previously served as Huawei's Fellow Cyberverse Chief Engineer and Camera Chief Engineer. IT Home noticed that Luo Wei posted a message today, "Testing the Huanghua Water Great Wall", and attached a photo taken with an Honor Magic series phone. (Source: IT Home)

Alibaba's big model veteran Yang Hongxia's whereabouts officially announced: she joined a Hong Kong university and her entrepreneurial project is also being promoted

The latest news is that Yang Hongxia, a veteran of Alibaba's big model, has joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a professor in the Department of Electronic Computer Science.

Yang Hongxia is a well-known scientist in the field of AI. She worked as a researcher at IBM TJ Watson Research Center and as chief scientist at Yahoo. She joined Alibaba in 2016 and worked at the Intelligent Computing Laboratory of DAMO Academy; she joined ByteDance in March 2023. (Source: Quantum Bit)

Luo Yonghao summed up Dong Yuhui's resignation: If you really can't stand these bad people, then you can only start your own business

On July 27, Luo Yonghao wrote an article summarizing his views on Dong Yuhui's resignation from Dongfang Zhenxuan. He said that the so-called "I arranged the money for Yuhui to buy the company, and the company was given to Yuhui" is actually very simple. The essence is that Xiao Dong used the money he earned to buy back Xiao Dong's own company.

Regarding the question "Didn't Dong Yuhui sign a non-compete agreement? He can still engage in live broadcast-related business after leaving the company", Luo Yonghao said that for a super anchor of Dong Yuhui's level, a non-compete agreement is meaningless. If you sign too little, he will give you the compensation after a few live broadcasts, making you a laughing stock; if you sign too much, the whole world will say that you are an old gangster bullying young people.

Just like his motivation for starting a business, Luo Yonghao said, "If you really can't stand these bad people, then you can only start your own business." (Source: Phoenix Technology)

Tesla's "True Smart Summon" feature will be released next month, along with FSD 12.5.x

On July 28, Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently confirmed that the highly anticipated “Actual Smart Summon” (ASS) function will be launched with the FSD 12.5.x version.

It is understood that Tesla has begun to push FSD version 12.5 to consumers, and has received unanimous praise from new and old users. Even some long-term critics of FSD admit that the performance of version 12.5 in actual driving has been significantly improved.

As the video of FSD 12.5 version coping with complex road conditions and smooth driving performance sparked heated discussions, Tesla machine learning scientist Tony Duan posted on the social platform X that the development of version 12.5 condensed the hard work of the team for countless sleepless nights. (Source: IT Home)

Hard to defend: Hackers can use AI to remotely steal screen information through HDMI cables

On July 28, researchers in Uruguay found that hackers can use artificial intelligence to spy on screen contents by intercepting electromagnetic radiation leaked from the HDMI cable between the computer monitor and the host. They said that such attacks may already exist, but ordinary home computer users do not need to worry too much.

It is understood that attackers can carry out attacks in a variety of ways, including using antennas placed outside buildings to intercept HDMI cable signals. This espionage activity is carried out by intercepting electromagnetic radiation leaked from computer HDMI cables. Researchers said that although digital video transmission is much more complex than analog signals, there are still opportunities. (Source: IT Home)

The world's first land aircraft carrier, Xiaopeng's split flying car is exposed: six-wheel drive is very domineering

July 28 news, recently, blogger @来自路易 shared a car spy photo, which is said to be the "land aircraft carrier" split flying car that Xiaopeng Motors is about to launch.

From the spy photos, we can see that the new car has a larger overall size, a unique six-wheel layout, and hidden door handles on the side. Although the front face is tightly blocked, making the overall shape and lighting layout unclear, these details are expected to be revealed in the final mass-produced model.

Xiaopeng Motors previously officially introduced that this integrated land-air flying car is designed for the future three-dimensional transportation system. (Source: Fast Technology)

Blizzard's Hearthstone returns to Chinese server on September 25: players can get all missed cards in 2023 for free

On July 28, Blizzard's "Hearthstone" Chinese server announced at the 2024 ChinaJoy today that it will return on September 25. Players can get all the missed cards in 2023 for free, and all gold cards will be given away for free.

Previously, Blizzard China officially announced that Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase have reached an updated game distribution agreement based on their cooperation over the past 15 years to bring Blizzard games back to Chinese players. (Source: IT Home)

Experimental drug could help clear HIV from the brain

Tulane University research shows that an anticancer drug, BLZ945, can significantly reduce HIV levels in the brain by targeting infected cells, offering a new potential strategy for combating HIV reservoirs. The drug could eliminate the virus from hidden areas of the brain by focusing its effects on infected cells, addressing a significant barrier in HIV treatment.

The discovery, published in the journal Brain, marks an important step toward eliminating HIV from hard-to-reach viral reservoirs where it evades other effective treatments. (Source: cnBeta)

Robert Downey Jr. returns to Marvel and will star in the new Marvel film "Avengers 5: Doomsday"

Recently, at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, actor Robert Downey Jr. personally appeared and will return to Marvel to star in the new Marvel film "Avengers 5: Doom", playing the villain Doom/Doctor Doom (Dr. Doom).

Robert Downey Jr. seemed to still enjoy the cheers from fans at the scene, just like when he played Iron Man. He is also looking forward to this new mask!

"Avengers 5: Doomsday" will be released in North America in May 2026, directed by the Russo brothers. The sixth "Avengers 6: Secret War" will be released in May 2027. (Source: cnBeta)

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