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OpenAI has another major personnel change; Tesla Cybertruck had its first fatal accident; Luo Yonghao responded to the "five sins" of Yu Minhong, a friend of 20 years

Xin Ling2024/08/07

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According to The Information, Greg Brockman, one of the 11 co-founders of OpenAI, is on a long-term leave; another co-founder and key leader, John Schulman, has jumped to Anthropic, a fierce competitor of OpenAI.

OpenAI has another major personnel change, with three core figures leaving at the same time

According to The Information, Greg Brockman, one of the 11 co-founders of OpenAI, is on a long-term leave; another co-founder and key leader, John Schulman, has jumped to Anthropic, a fierce competitor of OpenAI.

Peter Deng, the product chief who joined the company last year and previously led products for Meta Platforms, Uber and Airtable, has also left, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.

Greg Brockman told staff that he plans to return after an extended vacation. John Schulman shared on social media why he chose to leave and join Anthropic: he hopes to delve deeper into AI consistency, the practice of aligning AI with human values. He has been at OpenAI for 9 years, leading the post-training team for large models, and he recently took over the remaining staff of a team called the Super Alignment Safety Team, which focuses on preventing AI from causing social harm.

OpenAI recently reassigned another safety chief, Aleksander Madry, to another position. Co-founder Ilya Sutskever recently left to found a startup. Another co-founder, Andrej Karpathy, left in February to start an education startup. OpenAI also recently hired its first chief financial officer and chief product officer, whose arrival may affect the role of Peter Deng, the product chief mentioned above.

Ignoring opposition! Ideal Auto continues to release the latest weekly sales chart

On August 6, despite public opposition from many automakers, Ideal Auto still announced the latest new force sales weekly ranking for the 31st week (7.29-8.4) as usual. Ideal Auto's weekly sales reached 11,800 vehicles, ranking first again.

After Ideal released its weekly ranking last week, many voices expressed opposition, including:

Ma Lin, assistant vice president of brand and communication at NIO, wrote on his personal Weibo: "The top management has set the tone: don't engage in low-level involution. The weekly rankings are more or less a bit like low-level involution. Brother Xiang, please stop. The current mission of Chinese auto companies is to achieve technological breakthroughs through research and development, isn't it? Let's power up together!" and @Li Xiang.

Yang Xueliang, senior vice president of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, retweeted Ma Lin's Weibo post and said: "I am also against the weekly ranking."

He Xiaopeng, CEO of Xpeng Motors, said that what impressed him most during his trip to the United States was that American companies were more focused on making end-to-end autonomous driving assistance technology better, while Chinese technology companies were still trying to make weekly sales charts and making money rather than technological innovation and breakthroughs. "This is not what technology competition should be like."

Li Bin, CEO of NIO, said, "We have not authorized any organization or individual to use the unaudited weekly sales chart with our name, and we also call on relevant departments to regulate it."

In response, Li Xiang, CEO of Ideal Auto, posted a "hush" emoji on his personal WeChat Moments, along with an illustration of "covering one's ears and stealing a bell", presumably in response to comments from peers. (Source: TechWeb)

Tesla Cybertruck suffers first fatal accident

A Cybertruck driver died in Texas early Monday morning after his vehicle ran off the road and crashed into a concrete culvert for unknown reasons, according to a local news station in Texas. The Cybertruck was engulfed in flames after the crash, making it difficult to identify the victim. Tesla has sold at least 11,000 Cybertrucks since its launch late last year, according to a recent recall report.

Tesla's other models have excellent safety ratings, but third-party groups have not yet rated the Cybertruck, which has been subject to multiple recalls. (Source: KHOU.com)

TSMC's 3nm and 5nm foundry prices will rise next year and customers have been notified

TSMC has obtained a large number of orders and considerable revenue in the 5nm and 3nm process technologies with high yield and considerable production capacity. The latest news shows that TSMC will increase the foundry price of these two process technologies by 3% to 8%, reflecting the increase in costs. Among TSMC's current process technologies, 3nm is the most advanced, and 5nm contributes the most to revenue. The financial report shows that in the second quarter of this year, the 5nm process contributed 35% of revenue, and the 3nm process contributed 15%, and the two together contributed half of the revenue. The foundry price of each wafer for TSMC's 5nm process technology is about US$16,000, while the 3nm process is more than US$20,000. After the price increase next year, TSMC will obtain higher revenue. The 5nm process technology has been mass-produced since 2020, and the 3nm will begin commercial mass production at the end of 2022, which is less than 2 years ago. (Source: TechWeb)

Luo Yonghao responds to the "five sins" of Yu Minhong, a friend of 20 years: There is no truth in the whole article, only a hooligan poster that vents like shouting

On August 6, regarding the revelation of Luo Yonghao's five sins by Yu Minhong's 20-year old friend, Luo Yonghao's rumor-refuting account responded on Weibo today, saying: "Teacher Tie is known to have never said a bad word about others. Is it because there are always these '20-year friends' who come to help at critical moments? Look at this hooligan poster that has no facts at all, and is just a rap to vent. Aren't you ashamed to make friends with such people?"

According to Luo Yonghao, he will also write a clarification article to respond to this matter in a reasonable and appropriate manner.

Last night, someone who claimed to be Yu Minhong's 20-year old friend exposed Luo Yonghao's five sins: Sin 1: lack of self-discipline, irresponsibility, outspoken, unscrupulous, and extremely bad character; Sin 2: repeatedly deliberately confusing and stirring up discord between the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and individual employees, causing chaos in the market order; Sin 3: being an ungrateful and ungrateful villain; Sin 4: sowing discord, killing three birds with one stone; Sin 5: being an unlearned and completely ignoring speculator who focuses on entrepreneurship. (Source: Sina Technology)

Nvidia leak shows employees discussing using YouTube and Netflix videos to train AI

Nvidia scrapes videos from Youtube and other sources to compile training data for its AI products.

When asked about the legal and ethical issues of using copyrighted content to train AI models, Nvidia said its practices were "entirely consistent with the letter and spirit of copyright law." Foreign media reviewed Nvidia's internal conversations and found that when employees involved in the project raised the legal issues that might arise from using data sets and YouTube videos compiled by scholars for research purposes, managers told them that they had obtained approval from the highest levels of the company to use the content.

A former Nvidia employee said employees were asked to scrape videos from Netflix, YouTube and other sources to train AI models for Nvidia's Omniverse 3D world generator, self-driving car systems and "digital human" products. The project was internally named Cosmos (but is different from the company's existing Cosmos deep learning product) and has not yet been released to the public. (Source: 404)

Disney+ Launches New Immersive Environments from National Geographic and Marvel Studios 3D Movies on Apple Vision Pro

Starting today, August 5, Disney+ subscribers will be able to access a new immersive environment from National Geographic that will take them through the stunning natural beauty of Thingvellir National Park in Iceland through the Disney+ app on Apple Vision Pro. The new Disney+ environment is the first immersive project National Geographic has created for Apple Vision Pro.

Disney+ will also offer four additional Marvel Studios 3D movies to subscribers: The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp.

National Geographic worked with Disney Studios Technology to lead the creative development and production of the immersive environment using high-resolution 3D models captured on-site using photogrammetry and gigapixel panoramas. The team worked with Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology to bring this new experience to Disney+. (Source: the verge)

Figure AI, the humanoid robotics company, announces the launch of the new generation of Figure 02

On August 6th local time, Figure AI released a new Figure 02 video, which mainly shows its testing scenes on the BMW production line.

According to the video, at the functional level, Figure 02 can have conversations with humans in voice-to-voice mode through microphones, speakers and customized AI models; the camera is an AI vision system driven by 6 on-board RGB cameras; it uses a fourth-generation hand with 16 degrees of freedom and human-equivalent strength; the visual language model (VLM) enables the robot camera to perform fast common-sense visual reasoning; at the battery level, Figure 02 is equipped with a 2.25 kWh battery, which increases the operating time by 50%; the computing and AI reasoning capabilities of the CPU/GPU are 3 times that of the previous generation.

Figure AI was founded in 2022 and launched its first product, Figure 01, in 2023. In February this year, it received investments from a number of technology giants and bigwigs, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, Bezos, etc., with a total financing of approximately US$675 million, with a valuation of US$2.6 billion. (Source: Titanium Media)

Xiangjie S9 is officially released, priced at RMB 399,800 to RMB 449,800

On August 6, Hongmeng Zhixing and BAIC Group jointly launched the Xiangjie S9, which is positioned as a panoramic smart flagship sedan. The Xiangjie S9 Max version (rear-wheel drive) is priced at 399,800 yuan, and the Xiangjie S9 Ultra version (four-wheel drive) is priced at 449,800 yuan.

Yu Chengdong introduced that the 0-100 acceleration is 3.9 seconds, and the whole series is equipped with 100kWh Huawei 800V giant whale battery as standard, the CLTC maximum range is 816 kilometers, charging for 5 minutes, the range is increased by 200 kilometers, and the average power consumption per 100 kilometers is 13.2kWh; the logo is the Galaxy headlights, smart electronic exterior rearview mirrors, and 5 car paints such as Huanyu Red and Xinghui Gold. The Xiangjie S9 is equipped with the exclusive Tuling platform for D-class sedans, front and rear spring-reducing integrated structure, and the whole series is equipped with 5-speed adaptive air suspension as standard; the 0-100 braking distance is 32.77 meters, and the moose test score reaches 81.4km/h.

In terms of privacy, the S9 is equipped with electric sunshades on the side, rear and top as standard, and a 32-inch automotive-grade projection screen. In terms of safety, it is equipped with 9 airbags and 7 redundant designs. In terms of intelligent driving, the S9 is the first to launch Huawei ADS 3.0, which uses an end-to-end architecture and intelligent driving from parking space to parking space, supports parking space start, roadside parking, automatic gates, etc. Parking supports parking when obstacles are removed, and remote parking in and out with one click. (Source: Sina Technology)

Tencent Yuanbao launches AI intensive reading of long articles: specializing in papers, financial reports and research reports

Recently, Tencent’s AI native application “Tencent Yuanbao” has launched the ability to read long texts in depth.

In the latest version of Tencent Yuanbao, when users upload URL links or files of professional content such as papers, financial reports, and research reports, in addition to obtaining a text summary, they can also enter the deep reading mode to read the long text carefully. This mode can provide an overview of the core content and modular analysis, generate summary charts, and assist users in quickly understanding key information. Relying on the long text processing capabilities of Tencent Hunyuan's large model, Tencent Yuanbao's deep reading mode can natively support input of up to nearly 500,000 words. It can generate illustrated content based on the understanding of professional content. It can not only quote the original image of the input content, but also draw high-level analysis diagrams through code. In response to the pain points such as the obscurity of foreign literature and the time-consuming and labor-intensive use of translation software, Tencent Yuanbao can extract the innovations and deficiencies in the paper, making it easier to form a judgment on the quality of the paper. (Source: Sina Technology)

"Black Myth: Wukong" officially announced that the official version of the content development has been completed and a new trailer will be released on the 8th

On August 6, Game Science officially announced that Black Myth: Wukong has completed the development of all the content of the official version. The game is now available for pre-order on PS5 / STEAM / EPIC GAMES STORE / WEGAME store, and will be unlocked at 10 am (UTC+8) on August 20, 2024. Currently, Black Myth: Wukong ranks first on Steam's best-selling list in China and fifth on the global best-selling list. (Source: IT Home)

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