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1.Samsung looks forward to this year's strategic direction: Bet on Galaxy AI, focus on performance and quality (IT Home)
January 3 news, according to foreign media koreatimes reported that Samsung co-CEO and Vice chairman Han Jong-hee released a New Year's message yesterday, summing up Samsung's strategic priorities this year, mainly around "AI", "performance and quality".
It is reported that Samsung plans to strengthen its competitiveness through "technological advantages and adaptability", the company this year "bet on AI" in an attempt to "create a competitive gap" while improving the device experience.
In addition, Samsung also stressed its "customer first" strategy, claiming that it will focus on ensuring "performance and quality", and this year the company plans to create "more technology gaps" and bring "higher performance" for its chips, while also urging production lines to ensure product quality.
2.Apple suffered a sharp decline in five months, and its market value evaporated by $107.1 billion overnight (Futu Niuniu)
On January 2, Apple had fallen about 4.5% at midday on Tuesday, narrowed to within 4% in the end, and closed down about 3.6%, with a market value of $107.1 billion (about 766 billion yuan) evaporated overnight. It still recorded a large one-day decline on August 4, 2023, and the lowest closing price since November 9, 2023.
On the news, Apple was bearish by Barclays analysts and was downgraded from "hold and see" to "reduce". "We expect a reversal for the stock after Apple missed most of its quarterly results over the past year and the stock outperformed its peers," the analysts said in the note. After a round of reviews, analysts slightly lowered their forecasts for Apple, still expecting weak iPhone sales and product portfolio, and a rebound in Mac, iPad and wearables. The review included a worsening decline in iPhone demand outside of China and continued weakness in developed markets.
The current "sluggish" sales of the iPhone 15, especially in China, bode well for similarly weak sales of the iPhone 16, the report said. "Our assessment of iPhone 15 sales and product portfolio remains negative," the report said. "We also see no features or upgrades that could make iPhone 16 more compelling."
3.TikTok plans to expand its U.S. e-commerce business tenfold to $17.5 billion this year, according to people familiar with the matter (Bloomberg)
According to Bloomberg News on January 3, people familiar with the matter said that TikTok plans to expand the size of its U.S. e-commerce business tenfold this year to $17.5 billion. TikTok's internal meetings in recent weeks have discussed a 2024 GMV target for the US version of TikTok Shop. TikTok is expected to reach $20 billion in global sales by 2023, with most of that coming from Southeast Asia.
4.IDC predicts explosive growth in AI applications in 2024, with 500 million new applications (36 kr) worldwide.
Dingding and IDC released "2024 AIGC Application Layer Top 10 Trends White Paper". With the development of AIGC technology, intelligent applications will show explosive growth, IDC predicts that by 2024, there will be more than 500 million new applications worldwide. According to the white paper, application layer innovation will become the direction of AIGC industry development in 2024; AI Agent is the mainstream form of large model landing business scenarios; Applications will move from cloud native to AI native. IDC predicts that by 2026, two-thirds of cloud applications will use AI, making it difficult for up to eight in 10 enterprises to find skilled AI professionals.
5.Summon an AI assistant with one click! Microsoft PC keyboard ushered in the first major change in 30 years (Thepaper.cn)
On January 4, local time, technology giant Microsoft announced on its official website that it will launch Copilot keys for Windows 11 PCS. The Copilot key will be the same as the Windows key as the core part of the PC keyboard, press this key to call the AI assistant Copilot in the Windows 11 operating system, able to answer users' questions, help users draw pictures, write emails and summarize text, Microsoft hopes that this will allow AI to seamlessly participate in the daily life of users.
Yusuf Mehdi, chief marketing officer of Microsoft's consumer business, wrote in a blog post: "In the New Year, we will usher in a major shift toward a more personalized and intelligent computing future where AI is seamlessly integrated into Windows systems, chips, and hardware." This will simplify and enhance people's computing experience, making 2024 the year of the AI PC."
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1.32999 yuan rose air conditioning "expensive and soil"? Gree Response (Eastern Wealth Network)
Recently, a rose air conditioner owned by Gree Electric Appliances caused controversy among netizens. In the face of netizens' "expensive and local" ridicule, Gree E-commerce Co., Ltd. responded on its official Tiktok number "Gree Pearl Selection" that the air conditioner has been upgraded three times and four times, and the well-designed appearance has made it close to the vivid shape of the rose, and the air conditioner is equipped with international leading technology and has won numerous awards at home and abroad.
2. Lei Jun Annual Bonus of 1 million US dollars (Red Star News)
On January 4, Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, announced on his personal micro blog that the first event of the year 2024 would award the million-dollar annual Technology Award to Xiaomi engineers. This is a high-specification award within Xiaomi, rewarding teams of less than 10 people who have made key breakthroughs in major technological innovation projects.
3.Techinsights: Hongmeng OS will become the second largest smartphone operating system in China by 2024 (CBN)
On January 3, semiconductor industry observer Techinsights released a report predicting that Harmony OS will replace Apple iOS to become the second largest smartphone operating system in China in 2024.
4.Company 9 will debut at CES 2024, introducing smart "new species" mobility products
On January 5, the 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024) will be held from January 9 to 12 local time, and the ninth company announced that it will bring a number of "blockbuster new products".
Nine company said that it will bring smart "new species" at CES 2024, from the poster can see the outline of a number of products, in addition to the regular electric car, scooter, mobile power, poster there are two products.
According to the preheating report issued by the Wall Street News, the No. 9 company will bring a new generation of upgraded intelligent lawn cutting robots, and officially announce a new business field of short traffic, and reveal the layout of the field on the spot, more advanced landing products.
5.Byd sold 3.024,400 new energy vehicles in 2023, winning the global new energy vehicle sales crown (TechWeb)
On January 2, BYD recently announced its sales performance in December 2023. In December 2023, the sales volume of new energy vehicles was 341,043, and the cumulative sales volume in 2023 reached 3,024,400, an increase of 62.3%. Specific to the brands, BYD dynasty + Ocean network in 2023 annual sales of 2,877,353 vehicles, an increase of 55.3%; The Denza brand sold 127,840 units in the year, of which the Denza D9 became the MPV of the year.
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