Warren Buffett stepped in again, donating $5.3 billion in stocks to support charity
On June 30, it was reported that investment legend Warren Buffett announced last Friday that he would convert his 8,674 Class A shares of Berkshire Hathaway into 13.01 million Class B shares and donate them to five charitable foundations. The shares were worth about $5.3 billion at Thursday's closing price.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Buffett said that after his death, almost all of his remaining wealth will be donated to a new charitable trust managed by his daughter and two sons.
In addition, Buffett made it clear that donations to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would cease after his death.
Berkshire Hathaway's B shares edged up 0.2% in premarket trading. (Source: IT House)
Wang Haifeng, CTO of Baidu: Wenxin Yiyan has 300 million users
On June 28, it was reported that at the Baidu WAVE SUMMIT Deep Learning Developer Conference, Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng announced that the cumulative user scale of Wenxin Yiyan has reached 300 million, and the number of daily calls has reached up to 500 million.
Wang Haifeng said that the rapid development of the Wenxin model is inseparable from the support of the paddle platform, and released the beta version of Baidu Paddle Framework 3.0.
In addition, Wang Haifeng also announced the release of the new version of Wenxin Model 4.0 Turbo, which has a faster response speed and stronger retrieval ability than Wenxin Model 4.0. (Source: TechWeb)
The original Meta Quest VR headset will lose all hardware support on August 31
Meta is ending official hardware support for the original Meta Quest VR headset. According to Eurogamer, the company has sent an email to Meta Quest users informing them that as of August 31, the device will no longer receive any security updates or bug fixes.
There are unconfirmed rumors that Meta will launch a new budget model sometime in 2024, and UploadVR reports that the device could be called the Meta Quest 3S. (Source: cnBeta)
Kai-Fu Lee: AI intelligence is expected to catch up with Ph.D. in 2025, and the singularity will explode in a few years
On June 29, it was reported that at the 10th Zhihu Salt Club New Knowledge Youth Conference, Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 010000 Things and Chairman of Sinovation Works, said that the performance of large models has accelerated in the past two years, and AI has exceeded the average level of humans, and is expected to surpass the doctoral level in 2025, and usher in a singularity outbreak in a few years.
Kai-Fu Lee also said that after AI frees us from daily repetitive work, humans need to rethink the true meaning of "being human". Work is, in part, a curse left over from the industrial age, imprisoning humanity on a boring and repetitive assembly line; In the AI 2.0 era, everyone can become the master of AI with the 3C guide, everyone can wave the AI magic wand in their hands, use the AI magic lamp, break the spell of work with AI magic, be the best version of themselves, and create a renaissance in the AI era together. (Source: TechWeb)
Zhihu released a new AI product "Zhihu Direct Answer", which supports functions such as asking questions and searching
On June 29, Zhihu released a new AI product "Zhihu Direct Answer", which is the official productization of its AI search function, and has an independent domain name and service entrance. The product has been launched on PC and can be used through the "zhida.ai" domain name.
According to reports, "Zhihu Direct Answer" is based on the real Q&A data of Zhihu creators, and can provide "brief" and "in-depth" answer generation results according to user needs, and supports "finding content" and "finding people", further shortening the distance between content needs and high-quality answers, and amplifying the circulation effect of community creators and their content.
It has been revealed that in the future, "Zhihu Direct Answer" will continue to promote app development and the introduction of multimodal capabilities, and actively explore foreign cooperation. (Source: IT House)
WeChat's consumer finance product "Installment" was launched, and two modes can be selected
WeChat's consumer finance product "Installment" was launched, which supports online and offline scenarios, and can be repaid in 3, 6, and 12 installments, and can be used for spending more than 500 yuan, and the repayment date will be automatically repaid from change, change pass, and savings card.
As for whether the installment is fully launched, Tencent's customer service responded that the installment can be used for consumption scenarios such as eating and shopping, and it does not support sending red envelopes, transfers, withdrawals, etc.; Scan the personal collection code to pay, the installment is not fully open for the time being, if the transaction does not support installment, you can choose other payment methods to pay. (Source: Straight Flush 7x24 News)
The Xpeng MONA M03 will make its world debut on July 3: positioned as a 150,000-yuan compact electric sedan
On June 29, according to official news, the first model of the Xpeng MONA series, M03, will make its world debut on July 3. The new model is positioned as a compact electric sedan and is expected to be launched in the third quarter of this year.
Judging from the official pictures that have been exposed so far, the overall shape of the new car creates a low-lying sports atmosphere, bringing a wide body and a low center of gravity visual effect. The side design of the body is simple, and the upper waistline extends from the front fenders to the taillights, reinforcing the overall sporty atmosphere.
According to Xpeng's official news, the Xpeng MONA M03 has a drag coefficient of only Cd 0.194, achieving the lowest wind resistance for a mass-produced pure electric hatchback sedan in the world.
As a new product series of Xpeng Motors, the Xpeng MONA series is a new model launched by Xpeng Motors focusing on the younger mobility market, with a range of more than 500km. (Source: TechWeb)
配备 ChatGPT-4o 和摄像头的智能眼镜挑战者来了
Solos says it will sell camera-equipped smart glasses later this year — featuring OpenAI's new GPT-4o AI model that lets the camera recognize objects and answer questions about what you're seeing.
The Solos AirGo Vision also features the same interchangeable frame system as the other Solos glasses and will also feature LED notification lights to warn you when there is an incoming call or email.
And the company claims that they can also be integrated with Google Gemini and Anthropic's Claude AI models. Like Meta's Ray-Bans, they will answer questions via audio and have no other display other than LED lights.
AirGo Vision doesn't have a price or specific release date yet, but it is expected to cost more than $249.99. (Source: cnBeta)
"It's over! I'm surrounded by beautiful women! >> The mobile version will be released in the third quarter, and the mystery DLC will be released at the end of the year
On June 29, it was reported that the live-action interactive film and television work "It's Over! I'm surrounded by beautiful women! announced the promotional video for the mobile version, and announced that the game is currently available for free on the TapTap platform (limited seats), and the official version will be launched in the third quarter of this year, and the "Mystery" DLC will be launched in the fourth quarter.
The TapTap page shows that "It's Over! I'm surrounded by beautiful women! 》This trial is only open to Android users, the trial chapter is "Chapter 1", trial time: June 28, 2024 - July 2, 2024. (Source: IT House)