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The Biden administration plans to block NVIDIA and others from exporting high-performance AI chips to China NVIDIA responded

The Biden administration updated export control rules for artificial intelligence chips on October 17, planning to prevent companies such as Nvidia from exporting advanced AI chips to China. According to the latest rules, NVIDIA's chip exports to China, including A800 and H800, will be affected. The new rules will take effect after 30 days of public consultation. NVIDIA responded: "We comply with all applicable regulations while striving to support thousands of applications in different industries. Given global demand for our products, we do not expect the (new rules) to have a material impact on our financial results in the near term. (CBN)

Lei Jun: Xiaomi The Paper OS will gradually replace MIUI

Xiaomi Chairman and CEO Lei Jun recently announced through social media that the official version of Xiaomi HyperOS, Xiaomi's operating system, has been packaged. "The Xiaomi 14 series, the first mobile phone with a new system, has been delivered to the factory and production has officially begun. From this moment on, Xiaomi The Paper OS will gradually take over MIUI. (Tencent Technology)

Baichuan Intelligence, founded by Wang Xiaochuan, announced that it received $300 million in A1 round financing, with Ali, Tencent, Xiaomi and others participating in the investment

On October 17, Baichuan Intelligent announced that it has completed the A1 round of strategic financing, with a financing amount of 300 million US dollars, and technology giants such as Ali, Tencent, Xiaomi and a number of top investment institutions have participated in this round of financing. Together with the $50 million from the angel round, Baichuan Intelligence's financing amount has reached $350 million. According to public information, Baichuan Intelligent was founded on April 10, 2023, by Wang Xiaochuan, former CEO of Sogou. (Tencent Technology)

Tech companies

iPhone 15 disassembly investigation is here! The cost of the flagship model increased by 12% This component increased by 3.8 times

According to the iPhone 15 series disassembly survey provided by foreign media, the cost of parts of each model has further increased compared with the previous generation, and the cost of parts of the highest-end model has reached a record high for two consecutive years. The total component cost of the 15 Pro Max is about $558, which is 12% higher than the 14 Pro Max. In terms of subdivided parts, the price of the 15 Pro Max's telephoto camera and its quad prism system is 3.8 times higher than the previous generation. (CaiLian News)

Walltech and Moore Thread: Strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Commerce putting the company on the Entity List

The two companies of Wally Technology and Moore Thread recently issued a statement saying that they have paid attention to the US Department of Commerce including a number of technology companies including the two companies in the entity list, and expressed strong opposition to the US move, and will actively complain to the relevant US government departments and call on the US government to re-examine. (CaiLian News)

It is reported that TSMC will cut capital spending this year to less than $30 billion

According to media reports, TSMC was affected by many factors such as Intel's 3nm process outsourcing delay, the delay in the mass production of the 4nm process in the United States, and the company's capital expenditure fell below $30 billion this year, and if the news is true, it will hit the lowest point in nearly three years. Market researchers believe that even if TSMC lowers its capital expenditure this year, it will increase research and development expenses and continue to promote the research and development of advanced processes. (IT House)

Huawei Pay responded with a name change: the first batch of settled partners included Didi Chuxing and Meituan Takeaway

In response to the change of the name of Huawei's payment license institution to "Petal Pay", Huawei recently responded that Huawei Pay supported by Petal Payment is a full-scenario payment service in the Hongmeng ecosystem, and users can open Huawei Pay in the Huawei Wallet App. The first batch of partners to settle in include Didi Chuxing, Meituan Takeaway, 58.com and so on. (Beijing News)

Didi's self-driving cargo "KargoBot" operates independently and receives more than 450 million yuan of investment

Didi's self-driving cargo business KargoBot has been independently operated and renamed Karl Power, with an investment of more than 450 million yuan from Erdos Group and others. Wei Junqing, head of Didi's autonomous driving innovation business, was transferred to the CEO of the new company, and after this independent operation, Didi will remain the majority shareholder. It is understood that KargoBot is a project that began in 2019, and the company currently has 150 self-driving heavy trucks, and its main business is to transport coal and other bulk commodities in northwest and north China. (36 Kr)

Mitsubishi is considering bidding for Shinko, Fujitsu's chip division, and intends to enter the semiconductor manufacturing field

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Agency of Canada, Mitsubishi Corp. is considering bidding for Fujitsu's chip packaging subsidiary, Shinko, in order to enter the semiconductor manufacturing field. Fujitsu has sold its 50% stake in Shinko, valued at about $2.6 billion. The acquisition has attracted the attention of global acquirers such as Bain Capital, KKR, Apollo Global Management and Japanese investment companies. Mitsubishi said it was looking for various opportunities and did not comment on individual deals. (IT House)

AI weather vane

Robin Li announced the official release of Wenxin Model 4.0, "Generative AI and search are a match made in heaven"

A few days ago, at the Baidu World Congress 2023, Baidu CEO Robin Li released the Wenxin Model 4.0, emphasizing that it has significantly improved its four major abilities of understanding, generation, logic and memory, and is even not inferior to GPT4. He announced that Baidu Search has completed reconstruction based on AI large models, leading generational changes with AI interactive search. (Tencent News Periscope)

Ant Group invested in Zhipu AI, a cognitive large model research and development company

Recently, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. underwent industrial and commercial changes, and the new shareholder was Shanghai Yunxuan Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Ant Group. Zhipu AI is committed to building a new generation of cognitive intelligence general models, and cooperated in the development of the bilingual 100-billion-level ultra-large-scale pre-training model GLM-130B, and built ChatGLM based on this. (CaiLian News)

Crush GPT-4, Microsoft's strongest AutoGen exploded! Multiple agents collaborate, and the coding speed soared by 4 times

AutoGen, an agent developed by teams such as Microsoft, PSU, and the University of Washington, topped the GitHub Hot List just 2 weeks after its release, allowing LLM agents to chat with each other and solve tasks, customizable, conversational, and allow seamless human participation. Based on AutoGen's modular architecture, developers can create reusable generic components to quickly build custom applications. (Shin Ji Won)

Artificial Intelligence Driven The world's leading academic publishing organization has launched a scientific and technical paper writing assistant

Springer Nature, a world-renowned academic publishing organization, has announced the launch of its in-house developed artificial intelligence-driven writing assistant, Curie, to support researchers' scientific paper writing, especially those whose native language is not English. Curie, the newly launched scientific essay writing assistant, is trained specifically based on academic literature, covering more than 447 research areas, more than 2,000 field-specific topics, and based on more than 1 million edits in published papers, including papers in the leading Nature series. (China News Network)

Smart new products

Apple released a new Apple Pencil: add USB-C interface, priced at 649 yuan

Apple launched a new generation of Apple Pencil (USB-C) through its official website, priced at 649 yuan. It adds a sliding cap to the original second-generation Apple Pencil design, and a USB-C interface is hidden inside, and users can pair and charge the new Apple Pencil through USB-C. (Tencent Digital)

DJI Osmo Pocket 3 handheld gimbal camera more physical photo exposure

Recently, foreign digital blogger Igor Bogdanov shared more physical photos of DJI's Osmo Pocket 3 handheld gimbal camera, after rumors that DJI will release this gimbal camera on October 25. The new machine may upgrade the sensor size from 1/1.7 inch to 1 inch, and also comes with three microphones for applications such as capturing stereo audio and minimizing wind noise. (IT House)