2024-08-30
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on august 30, the wall street journal reported that apple and nvidia are in talks to invest in openai. the report cited people familiar with the matter as saying that the investment will be part of a new round of financing for openai, which will value the chatgpt maker at more than $100 billion.
it is reported that venture capital firm thrive capital led the round of financing, which will total billions of dollars, and microsoft is also expected to participate. it is not clear how much apple, nvidia or microsoft will invest in openai in this round of financing.
on august 30, technology media axios published a blog post reporting that openai recently announced that the number of weekly active users of its chatgpt ai chatbot has exceeded 200 million, doubling in one year.
openai also said that 92% of fortune 500 companies use its products, and that usage of its api has doubled since the launch of chatgpt-4o mini in july.
“people are using our tools and integrating them into their daily lives, making a real difference in areas like healthcare and education, helping with everyday tasks, solving tough problems, or unleashing creativity,” openai ceo sam altman said in a statement to the publication.
openai and sam altman himself have not made any public response to this news.
on august 29, huawei released its operating results for the first half of 2024. in the first half of the year, the company achieved sales revenue of 417.5 billion yuan, the highest in four years, a year-on-year increase of 34.3%, and a net profit margin of 13.2%. compared with the same period in previous years, revenue reached the highest peak in four years, and net profit exceeded 50 billion yuan for the first time, a year-on-year increase of 15.4%.
huawei's rotating chairman xu zhijun said: "the overall operating performance of the group is in line with expectations. we will implement the company's strategy of 'high quality' throughout the entire process, continue to optimize the industry portfolio, enhance development resilience, build a prosperous industry ecosystem, and contribute more competitive products and solutions to customers."
on august 29, it was reported that "netease won the first trial against blizzard, and the court froze blizzard's assets worth 139 million yuan." in response, a person related to blizzard china said that the description of "netease winning the first trial against blizzard" was not true, the case had not entered the substantive trial stage of the first trial, and the two parties currently had no other legal disputes. blizzard china said that since the announcement of the re-cooperation in april this year, netease and blizzard have been working closely to bring blizzard games back to domestic players one after another. the two parties just joined hands on august 27 to successfully introduce the latest expansion pack of "world of warcraft" "war to the center of the earth" to the chinese server at the same time as the world.
on august 30, market research firm counterpoint released a report yesterday, predicting that global smartphone shipments will reach 1.23 billion units in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 5%, ending two consecutive years of decline.
the report said that the share of ai smartphones with generative ai capabilities is expected to account for nearly one-fifth and will continue to grow in the future, reaching more than half in 2028.
the artificial intelligence (apple intelligence) in apple's upcoming iphone 16 model will drive the development of genai devices in the entire smartphone market. this may create opportunities for apple to jump to the top of the annual shipment list as early as 2025.
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