The central enterprises are expected to invest more than 3 trillion yuan in equipment renewal; Xiaohongshu opened an AI convenience store; Ouyeel Industrial Products held a safety committee and business analysis meeting in the second quarter of 2024.
Finishing丨Hu Yixin
# In the past week, these things have happened #
1 Central enterprises are expected to invest more than 3 trillion yuan in equipment renewal, and digital procurement will welcome new opportunities
On July 26, Liu Shaowei, head of the Financial Supervision and Operation Evaluation Bureau of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, said at the press conference of the State Council Information Office that recently, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council held a meeting to promote the large-scale equipment renewal of central enterprises to guide the central enterprises to take the lead and focus on the "five accelerations" to promote the implementation of key tasks of large-scale equipment renewal. In the next step, we will adhere to the principle of giving everything we can and should give everything, increase policy support for investors, guide central enterprises to keep an eye on the direction of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and play an exemplary and leading role in this round of large-scale equipment renewal.
In the next five years, central enterprises (including 97 enterprises including China National Nuclear Corporation, Aerospace Science and Technology Group, China Shipbuilding Group, etc.) are expected to arrange large-scale equipment renovation with a total investment of more than 3 trillion yuan. At the same time, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council requires central enterprises to treat all kinds of enterprises equally when purchasing equipment, insist on buying equipment with the best technical level and the highest cost performance, so that equipment suppliers with excellent quality and price stand out.
2 Ouyeel Industrial Products held the safety committee and business analysis meeting in the second quarter of 2024
On July 24, Ouyeel Industrial Products held a safety committee and business analysis meeting in the second quarter of 2024 to review the safety and environmental protection work and the company's operation in the second quarter, and make arrangements for the second half of the year. Zhang Qing, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Ouyeel Industrial Products, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech, and Zhou Ming, President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, and the company's vice president and above leaders attended the meeting.
Zou Jun, Vice President and Minister of Planning and Science and Technology of the company, publicized and implemented the new round of strategic planning (2024-2026) of Ouyeel Industrial Products. Ouyeel Industrial Products actively undertakes the latest strategic requirements of Baowu, adheres to and strengthens the positioning of a functional company, further focuses on the main responsibilities and main businesses, continuously improves its position, deeply practices the "four modernizations" and "four haves", adheres to innovation-driven, continuously improves its value creation capabilities, and comprehensively serves the overall development of Baowu.
In the new round of strategic planning, Ouyeel Industrial Products is positioned as a "high-quality industrial product procurement management service company", with the vision of "becoming a leader in industrial product procurement management services and a driver of the ultimate efficiency of smart manufacturing", and the mission of "empowering the high-quality development of the steel industry and helping the transformation and development of the industrial ecosystem". The company will focus on enhancing core functions, enhancing core competitiveness, and providing high-quality industrial product procurement management services for Baowu Steel's main business and ecosystem users through relevant development paths and key strategic initiatives, so as to create greater value.
3 HUAWEI CLOUD continues to rank first in China's government cloud market
Recently, IDC released a series of research on China's government cloud market share. In 2023, the overall market size of China's government cloud will be 79.45 billion yuan, including 55.76 billion yuan for dedicated cloud, 15.47 billion yuan for public cloud, and 8.22 billion yuan for cloud operation services. At present, the provincial cloud platform is basically covered, and more than 90% of the prefecture-level cities have built government cloud platforms. On the other hand, only 29% of information systems are deployed based on cloud architecture, and there is still a great demand for cloudification of services in the future.
According to the report, HUAWEI CLOUD has ranked first in six markets for seven consecutive years: Government Cloud Overall, Government Cloud IaaS, Government Cloud PaaS, and Government Dedicated Cloud.
4 Alibaba plans to launch a B2B platform exclusive to Korea companies
Alibaba will officially launch its exclusive B2B platform website for Korean companies on August 8 to expand its overseas direct sales business for Korea products. The platform will provide Korean and English translation APIs to facilitate Korea SMEs to promote their products to global buyers without barriers.
It is reported that Alibaba plans to help more than 5,000 Korea small and medium-sized enterprises enter the global B2B market through this move. This is part of Alibaba's globalization strategy, which helps Korea companies expand their presence in the global market by providing them with an exclusive platform. Data shows that between 2020 and 2023, a total of 2,550 Korea SMEs sold their products overseas through Alibaba's B2B platform. More than 7,600 Korea brands have entered the Chinese market through Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall platforms.
5 Xiaoyijia & Daliyuan Food reached a strategic cooperation on direct supply of brands to jointly shape the new ecology of leisure terminal sales
On July 25, Xiaoyijia, a B2B digital platform of Eternal Asia, and Daliyuan Food, a well-known food company, officially signed a strategic agreement on direct supply of brands at the headquarters of Eternal Asia with the core goal of promoting sales growth and empowering the end market.
The focus of this cooperation is based on the innovative development model of direct brand supply, and through the digital advantages of the Xiaoyijia platform, the full range of Dali Garden products will be put on the shelves of the Xiaoyijia platform, and at the same time, Xiaoyijia will empower the terminal stores to efficiently develop the Liyuan brand activities, which not only enriches the product line of Xiaoyijia, but also meets the multi-dimensional needs of customers in a more convenient way.
6 Kuaishou Keling AI is fully open for internal testing, and the model effect is upgraded again
On July 24, Keling AI, a large model generated by Kuaishou video, announced that the basic model would be upgraded again and fully open for internal testing. The KringAI has significantly improved the image quality first, and the video generated by the upgraded base model has a higher level of composition, tone, and aesthetics than before. Secondly, there was a significant improvement in athletic performance. The upgraded base model has been significantly enhanced in terms of motion amplitude and motion accuracy.
Kuaishou said that on the basis of the full opening of the internal test, the membership system will be officially launched, and corresponding exclusive functional services will be provided for different categories of members. According to the official website, the current membership is divided into three categories: gold, platinum, and diamonds, taking the most commonly used monthly card as an example, the price of the three levels of membership is 66 yuan, 266 yuan and 666 yuan, corresponding to 660, 3000, 8000 "inspiration points" respectively, and about 66, 300 or 800 standard videos can be generated. At the same time, in addition to "inspiration points", members can also enjoy exclusive functions such as high performance mode, video extension, video generation tail frame reference, video camera movement support for master camera movement, etc.
7. The average daily usage of the bean bag model exceeds 500 billion
On July 25, Volcano Engine demonstrated the latest upgrades and applications of the bean bag model at the AI Innovation Tour · Chengdu Station. According to reports, as of July, the average daily tokens usage of the Doubao model has exceeded 500 billion, and the average daily tokens usage of enterprise customers has increased by 22 times compared with the model release period on May 15.
In addition, Volcano Ark, Buckle Pro, HiAgent, and cloud infrastructure have also received a comprehensive update, aiming to provide comprehensive support for enterprise AI transformation. The "Generative AI Business Implementation White Paper" was also released at the conference to provide enterprises with ideas and strategies for AI transformation.
8 Feishu upgraded the project and released IPD product solutions
A few days ago, Feishu Project held a new product launch conference in Shanghai with the theme of "Process Drives New Growth", and officially released the "Feishu Project IPD Product Solution" for manufacturing enterprises.
After two years of continuous R&D and a large amount of investment, Hong Tao, Vice President of Feishu Products, officially released the IPD product solution of the Feishu project on the spot. This solution can establish a systematic R&D management system to achieve the determination of rules to deal with the uncertainty of results. In the face of complex projects, you can break down system silos and establish end-to-end processes to help users control the overall progress.
9 Xiaohongshu opened an AI convenience store
Xiaohongshu's official account "Tech Potato" officially debuted and brought its entrepreneurial project: the world's first AI convenience store. This convenience store has teamed up with high-quality authors and well-known technology companies across the network to collect good-looking and interesting AI content and make it into a "limited product".
At present, the store has various partitions such as cold drink cabinets, snack cabinets, ice cream cabinets, incubators, convenience store special blends, etc., each representing an AI section. For example, the drinks in the cold drink cabinet include: Supplier Liu Baixin: Authoritative evaluation of AI song writing level. Supplier Zhao Chunxiang said: AI can be made into a meal pair, and calories can be automatically measured.
In order to recruit more suppliers, Xiaohongshu promises to provide 30,000-500,000 traffic support for each excellent note, and have the opportunity to appear on the exclusive page of the event. The authors of the top 3 authors with the cumulative number of likes in the activity notes will also have a chance to win a Xiaomi robot dog worth 15,000 yuan.
10 The number of Ant AI financial assistant users has reached 59 million
According to QuestMobile's monitoring data, as of the end of June, Ant Group's "AI financial assistant" Zhi Xiaobao had 59.08 million monthly active users, with an average of about 2.8 uses per user that month.
Zhi Xiaobao began external testing in April this year, positioning itself to answer professional questions in financial verticals such as funds and insurance, and can provide practical tools including financial position analysis, market interpretation, and intelligent insurance underwriting and intelligent claims settlement based on the user's financial management and insurance product holdings. For example, when asking about a fund, Zhi Xiaobao can provide comprehensive product data and indicate risks such as size and fund manager changes.
11 Baidu launched the digital human video chat app "Wen Xiaoyan"
Baidu has launched an AI digital human social app called Wen Xiaoyan, in which users can not only text chat, but also directly video talk with virtual humans. Compared with other AI chat products, the biggest difference between the app and the app is that it presents a large simulation of the image of a digital human in its interface, trying to shape the experience of online video chat with a real person.
Digital humans have their own age, location, personality, occupation and other characteristic settings, which can not only present facial expressions, but also support complex actions such as body language. Users can interact with them by handwriting, voice, sending pictures, etc., and digital humans respond with voice, text, and body language. However, in the actual test experience, the digital human still has a certain stiffness in his body movements. At present, the app does not support users to create their own exclusive digital humans, and can only use the official preset digital humans.
12 Zhou Chang, the technical director of Ali Tongyi Qianwen large model, will leave to start a business
According to media reports, Zhou Chang (nickname Zhong Huang), the technical director of Ali Tongyi Qianwen large model, will resign from Alibaba Cloud and start a business. A person familiar with the matter said that Zhou Chang is one of the core technical backbones of the algorithm team of Tongyi Lab, and he resigned normally. The R&D and open source work of the Tongyi large model is still in progress, and the current person in charge of the Tongyi Lab is Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud.
Chang Zhou graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology in 2012 and a Ph.D. degree in computer software and theory from Peking University in 2017. He has successively served as an algorithm expert in the Damo Academy, and then as the person in charge of the large model of Tongyi Qianwen. He specializes in deep learning, graph mining and distributed computing, and has published more than 30 articles at top international conferences in the fields of machine learning, data mining and databases.
13 Meta发布Llama 3.1,开源模型媲美最强闭源模型
On July 23, United States local time, Meta officially released the open-source model Llama 3.1, including three versions: 8B, 70B and 405B, of which the 405B version is currently one of the largest open-source models. According to the benchmark data provided by Meta, the 405B version is already comparable to GPT-4 and Claude 3 in terms of performance.
Closed-source models are typically developed and maintained by a single company, ensuring the security and stability of the software. Open source software is more transparent and flexible, allowing developers around the world to review, modify, and improve code together. For example, ChatGPT is a closed-source model developed by OpenAI, and while it provides API access, its core algorithm and training data are not fully disclosed. Llama 3.1 is an open-source model that allows researchers and developers to access its source code, and people are free to study, modify, and even improve the model. Previously, the closed-source model had been slightly superior.
# These companies have been raised this week #
1 Baichuan Intelligent A round of financing of 5 billion yuan: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen state-owned assets entered the bureau with a valuation of 20 billion yuan in the B round
Recently, Baichuan Intelligent has completed the A round of financing, with a total financing amount of 5 billion yuan, and will open the B round of financing with a valuation of 20 billion yuan. Investors include leading manufacturers and market-oriented investment institutions such as Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, Asia Investment Capital, and CICC, as well as state-owned industrial investment funds such as Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, and Shenzhen Capital Group.
Baichuan Intelligence was founded in April 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan, the former CEO of Sogou, and received $50 million in angel round financing at the beginning of its establishment, and announced a $300 million A1 round of financing in October last year, with the participation of technology giants such as Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi and a number of top investment institutions. Since then, Baichuan Intelligent has successively completed A2 and A3 ...... waited for the delivery of multiple rounds of financing until Baichuan announced the completion of the A round of financing, and the whole process lasted more than a year.
2 Weidu Technology will complete a $200 million pre-IPO round of financing
Weidu Technology is a new energy heavy-duty truck start-up, mainly engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and sales of new energy heavy-duty trucks, and provides fully redundant wire-controlled chassis, powertrain, body shape and interior products, which can meet the needs of L4 autonomous driving. Recently, Weidu Technology will complete a $200 million pre-IPO round of financing, led by the Belgium sovereign wealth fund (Belgium Federal Holding and Investment Company).
Previously, Weidu Technology has raised more than 1 billion yuan in investors, including HSBC, Goodman Group, HITE Hedge, GSR Ventures, FountainVest Capital, Yunqi Capital, Hefei Innovation Investment, Suzhou High-tech Zone, Rokin Logistics, etc. The company has already started work related to the United States IPO this year.
3 Youdian Intelligent completed a round of financing of 50 million yuan, and the investor was not disclosed
Youdian Intelligent is a shared charging treasure rental service provider, is the parent company of the shared charging treasure brands "enjoy small electricity" and "preferential charging", and has an independent design, development, procurement, production and sales service system. The main business covers: shared charging treasure rental, brand customization, advertising display equipment and advertising communication services. Youdian has a multi-product line with cutting-edge technology in the industry, including all kinds of large, medium and small cabinets and desktop superimposed products, which are suitable for various scenarios. This round of financing is optimistic about its broad prospects in the UFCS fusion fast charging technology market.
4 Oak Deer Technology received nearly 200 million yuan of strategic investment from JD.com
Oak Deer Technology is a developer of life service robots. The products cover hotel self-service terminals, delivery service robots and other categories, and have a number of patents and innovative applications in technologies such as robot autonomous movement algorithms, multi-task concurrent scheduling, and cloud "intelligent" management. It has created a number of innovative products with industry breakthroughs such as Whale Xiaozhu Hotel self-service terminal, hotel delivery robot Whale Xiaoyuan H2 and H9. Recently, Oak Heron Technology has received nearly 200 million yuan of strategic investment from JD.com and reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation. The financing funds will be mainly used for product technology research and development, production line and service system upgrades, and new market development.
5 Broadlink Zhidian completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan
Broadlink is a provider of power AI products, focusing on the research and development of digital power solutions. With power AI products as the carrier, the company is committed to turning each traditional distribution unit of the distribution grid into an AI neuron of the power grid, so as to build a real-time synchronous, stable control, flexible and mutually beneficial distribution and consumption system at low cost, and help the high-quality development of the distribution power grid. Through the integration of electric power, industrial control, and AI technologies, a series of AI products for power distribution are innovatively defined, such as intelligent electrical cabinets, intelligent circuit breakers, energy controllers, and power AI software platforms, to achieve millisecond-level holographic perception and control. Recently, Broadlink Zhidian completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing is led by Frees Capital, followed by industrial resources, and Ge Material Capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor, and the funds will be mainly used for the research and development of emerging power AI products and market expansion.
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