1. Tesla's layoff compensation may be N+3 (Sina Technology)

Tesla has begun to communicate with stores about the list of layoffs, compensation is N+3, and basically every store has people being cut. Tesla's widespread layoffs are also reported to have affected the Shanghai factory, Shanghai Pudong Lingang Tesla factory employees have received an official email. Earlier on April 16, another person familiar with the matter said that Tesla China's layoffs were far more than the 10% that Musk said, and the sales department was the hardest hit area. People familiar with the matter said that some departments of the layoffs will be optimized by 30% to 40%, and individual departments will be optimized by 50%. Other departments generally at 20%, compensation from N+1 to N+3, the day after the talk is N+3.

2. Faraday Future: All FF91 vehicle deliveries are legal, there is no "early fake sales" (see news)

Recently, the question about the existence of "early false sales" of FaradayFuture (FF) FF912.0 model has triggered hot discussion on the Internet. In this regard, FF officials issued a statement on April 16, making it clear that the sales process of FF912.0 is completely legal and there is no false behavior.

According to the report, Apple plans to introduce a series of new AI features in the upcoming iOS18 operating system, which will run entirely on the device side, rather than relying on cloud servers.

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, these AI features will include updates to the Spotlight search tool, Siri, Safari browser, shortcut commands, AppleMusic music app, messaging, health apps, and office suites such as Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and more. Siri, in particular, is expected to get a major upgrade, including the addition of text and picture creation capabilities that will allow users to complete more complex tasks with voice commands.

While iOS18 won't include Apple's own ChatGPt-like chatbot, Apple has been in deep discussions with companies like Google, OpenAI, and China's Baidu about potential generative AI collaborations. In addition, Apple is also actively purchasing AI servers to prepare for future cloud AI functions.

4.GPU sweeping, Microsoft was revealed to plan to stockpile 1.8 million AI chips by the end of this year (interface news)

Microsoft plans to accumulate 1.8 million AI chips by the end of the year, tripling the number of its Gpus, according to an internal document seen by the media, Microsoft aims to accumulate 1.8 million AI chips by the end of 2024. Microsoft is trying to make generative AI faster, better, and cheaper, but that effort relies heavily on Microsoft sourcing chips and graphics processing units (Gpus), which mostly come from Nvidia. The document shows that Microsoft plans to triple the number of Gpus it owns by 2024. According to two people familiar with the matter, Microsoft expects to spend about $100 billion on Gpus and data centers from the current fiscal year through 2027.

5.Meta releases new Open source Grand Model Llama 3 to keep up with OpenAI (Blue Whale Finance)

On April 18 local time, Meta released its new open source model Llama 3, which provides pre-training and instruction fine-tuning versions of 8B and 70B.

This is the most advanced open source model so far, and it will be a strong competition for large model companies, including OpenAI, and can also benefit many AI companies that rely on open source models.

According to Meta, Llama 3 is trained on more than 15 terabytes of data on two custom 24K GPU clusters - that's 7 times larger and 4 times more code than the data set used by Llama 2, and Llama 3 supports 8K context length. Twice the capacity of Llama 2. Yann LeCun, chief scientist at Meta, said that Llama will continue to roll out more versions in the coming months, and will soon release research papers on Llama 3. Jim Fan, a senior scientist at Nvidia, believes that the possible release of Llama 3-400B and beyond will be a sort of "watershed moment" where the open source community will have access to GPT-4 level models.

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In the live broadcast, “Caixin Dongge” shared insights about food, reading, life and other aspects, and recommended the Jingdong Caixin carefully selected low-priced goodies. Although the digital person imitated Liu Qiangdong's appearance and voice tone, many netizens thought it lacked some emotion. Nonetheless, orders and turnover during the live broadcast achieved significant growth.

The live broadcast was a further warm-up for Jingdong's content ecology and short video creation. Jingdong has applied for the registration of a number of trademarks related to “CaiShengDongGe”, and plans to select the “top 100” by the end of the year, in order to enhance its competitiveness in the field of live e-commerce. In addition, Jingdong also invested 1 billion cash and 1 billion flow as a reward to attract more original creators and quality content organizations to station, with quality content to bring users a better consumer experience.

2. Robin Li live: future cars will be robots! (NJB)

On April 15, Baidu founder Robin Li and Yiping Xia, CEO of Jiyue, participated in a live event to discuss in depth the future trends of automotive robots.

Robin Li made a fascinating point during the live broadcast, “Driving should be like buying a new car by driving a new version every day.” He emphasized that future car robots will continue to improve their level of intelligence by learning the preferences and habits of the driver, becoming more and more understanding travel partners.

After experiencing the function of voice interaction with the car, Robin Li said that this “car robot” human-computer interaction experience, so that people can communicate with the car like a real person. He also mentioned the experience of voice parking feelings, that the convenience of this mode of communication, so that people no longer need the traditional physical operation, as when the Apple cell phone to cancel the physical keyboard, people will eventually find the new way more efficient.

3. The eve of the rain is busy picking tea, data show that China now has about 1.68 million tea-related enterprises (Aiqiqa)

“Just in time for the Qingming and the rain, a cup of fragrant tea to sit between”. Before and after the rain, it is a good time to pick tea, tea, tea mountain spitting green, tea garden fragrance, another year of spring tea season. According to reports, many tea gardens around the country has ushered in the mining.

Ai enterprise search data show that China's existing about 1.68 million tea-related enterprises. 2014-2023, tea-related business registration has increased year by year, the cumulative total of ten years of new registration of about 1.444 million. Among them, about 223,000 new tea-related enterprises in 2020, reaching the peak of the annual increment in the past decade.

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