The new film "Sword Rain", produced by John Woo and directed by Su Zhaobin, held a press conference in Hong Kong on the 29th. Woo and Su Zhaobin led the actors: Michelle Yeoh, Zheng Yusheng, and Yu Wenle, who attended together. Michelle Yeoh has announced in advance that she will not accept interviews independently, and seems to want to avoid talking about the peach news about her younger brother and Cai Huimin. The reason why Michelle Yeoh collaborates with John Woo this time is because many years ago in the United States, when they thought it was difficult to find a good script, she admitted that she has been eager to cooperate with John Woo, but unfortunately there is no chance. After many years, she feels so happy to finally get along on the big screen, and all the actors are like "developed". Speaking of his partner Zheng Yusheng, Michelle Yeoh praised him and said: He is very diligent, and he will keep practicing Mandarin when he is not buried. In the play, he reads all the dialogue in Mandarin, and he also works hard to practice swordsmanship, which makes her feel embarrassed.

　　　 Zheng Yusheng greeted and introduced himself to the media present in Mandarin. Regarding Yeoh’s admiration, he said: As a woman, Yeoh has her own style, is a good cooperation and responsible actor, she will show her best side, which impressed him deeply. She has a good heart and character, and she is a good girlfriend. After saying that, the two dragged their hands, and Yu Wenle smiled and pointed out that Zheng Yusheng was too late. When Zheng Yusheng learned that Yeoh had a good boyfriend, he asked Yeoh: Can I make an appointment in the next life? Yeoh was so happy that she couldn’t close her mouth with a smile.

　　　 John Woo was asked if there was any pressure to shoot "Sword Rain"? He admitted frankly: There has never been any pressure at the box office, and the most important thing is that the audience is very happy to like it. "Sword Rain" has been highly praised in mainland China, Europe, America and Hong Kong, and it sold better than "Red Bi" in Europe and America. It cost tens of millions of dollars more, which made me a little jealous… But it’s all his plays, so I don’t have any worries about the plays.

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　　◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter, Liu Yuanyuan

　　During this time, an artificial intelligence chat system called ChatGPT was like a spring thunder on the ground, suddenly exploding the network.

　　"Judging from the current general conversation experience, the biggest highlight of ChatGPT is its excellent intention recognition and language understanding ability, which makes people realize that the interaction ability of artificial intelligence has achieved leapfrog progress."Analysys wisdom institute senior analyst Chen Chen evaluation.

　　This magical human-computer interaction experience has aroused people’s enthusiasm for racking their brains to ask questions to ChatGPT, and brought it an amazing number of users: the system was launched by the American artificial intelligence research company OpenAI more than two months ago, and it has reached 100 million monthly active users in January this year. The user growth rate is unprecedented.

　　This product is very popular, and its important behind-the-scenes contributor is the technology known as the pre-trained model in the industry. In the face of the explosion of ChatGPT, domestic technology institutions and enterprises have "shined their swords".According to the latest news, the Chinese version of ChatGPT will be available to the public next month.

　　ChatGPT answers questions about itself.

　　The scale of parameters skyrockets from millions to hundreds of billions

　　"At present, pre-training technology is an important breakthrough in artificial intelligence research," explained Su Zhong, head of the Future Technology Center of Ali Research Institute.In traditional research methods, the cost of labeling has been an obstacle preventing artificial intelligence algorithms from pushing towards larger data sets, while pre-training techniques can train a large-scale deep learning model without relying on data annotations.

　　The Science and Technology Daily reporter learned that because data annotation is not required, pre-trained models can often use larger datasets, so they can choose larger model sizes – which has given rise to pre-trained large models.

　　"Compared with the previous artificial neural networks, the biggest difference of the pre-trained large model is that it is large enough, and the deep learning network has many layers, many connections, and many parameters." Zhang Jiaxing, a lecturer at the Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Research Center of IDEA Research Institute (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Research Institute), introduced in an interview with reporters that the deep learning network around 2012 has only a few million parameters; the mainstream pre-trained model around 2018 reached 100 million parameters; the large-scale pre-trained model that has been proved to be very effective has hundreds of billions of parameters, which have been improved thousands of times in just a few years.

　　ChatGPT answers questions about itself.

　　Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Su Zhong analyzed that in the evaluation of various techniques of the pre-trained model, the performance of the algorithm showed a rule:The larger the data size and the more parameters of the pre-trained model, the higher the output accuracy of the algorithm.

　　In addition to the large scale, Zhang Jiaxing said that the current pre-trained large model is very suitable for parallel training due to the use of new structural models. At the same time, in terms of training methods, the pre-training tasks of artificial neural networks are similar to "problem solving", such as removing a word or the first half of a sentence and letting the pre-trained model use massive big data to recover the sentence. In this way, the pre-trained model’s "problem solving" ability will get better and better. Moreover, on the basis of large language models, the introduction of instruction learning can far exceed the benefits of model fine-tuning. On this basis, human feedback can help the model better understand human intentions and receive information, and the human-machine dialogue will become more and more smooth.

　　ChatGPT answers questions about itself.

　　"ChatGPT can be said to be a landmark artificial intelligence product in terms of underlying data, core technology, user experience, etc." Zhang Xiangyu, head of basic research at Megvii Research Institute, said,The core technology of ChatGPT is the artificial intelligence language model, the key is how to make the artificial intelligence model have logical reasoning ability, and how to make artificial intelligence learn the knowledge of the whole Internet.These ChatGPTs are basically achieved, thus making great breakthroughs in decision-making and knowledge.

　　Many domestic science and technology institutions have established a presence in related fields

　　According to foreign media reports, a number of foreign tech giants are investing heavily in pre-training models and artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) track. The reporter learned that many domestic science and technology institutions and enterprises have laid out related fields.

　　Zhang Jiaxing told reporters that the IDEA Research Institute’s Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Research Center has been in this direction for a long time, and the center has the largest open-source model system in China – the list of gods. The 98 models that have been open-sourced are fully supporting the development of China’s AIGC, exploring the development of personalized and customizable models adapted to various fields, and supporting all natural language processing (NLP) tasks.

　　"It’s great to see the emergence of AIGC and ChatGPT in the tenth year of the rapid development of deep learning. Today, all these natural language processing tasks are being unified into the ChatGPT model. We are also integrating previous models and technologies to launch our ChatGPT-like model." Zhang Jiaxing said.

　　Source: Visual China

　　The reporter learned from Baidu that Baidu has invested in the development of related technologies similar to ChatGPT. The name of the project is determined to be ERNIE Bot. The English name is ERNIE Bot. It will be open to the public after the closed beta is completed in March. At present, ERNIE Bot is sprinting before going online.

　　"ChatGPT mainly involves natural language processing related technologies, which is one of the applications in the field of cognitive intelligence. iFLYTEK has a long-term and profound accumulation of technologies and applications in this direction." On the evening of February 8, iFLYTEK responded on the investor interaction platform that the company has open sourced a series of Chinese pre-trained language models in 6 categories and more than 40 general fields for the field of cognitive intelligence, and launched a generative pre-trained large model task in December last year. Artificial intelligence learning machine will become the first product to land this technology, and will be released at the product level in May this year.

　　In addition, 360 said on its investor interaction platform on February 7 that the company also plans to launch a prototype version of ChatGPT-like technology as soon as possible. "AIGC technology can assist in the improvement of digital security capabilities in addition to its application in search engines," 360 said.

　　(Science and Technology Daily reporters Cao Xiuying and Liu Yan also contributed to this article.)

　　Source: Science and Technology Daily, the pictures in the text are provided by the author unless indicated

　　Editor: Shen Wei (Internship)

　　Review: Yue Liang

　　Final Review: Wang Tingting

Hu Ge is a first-rate TV actor and a second-rate movie actor.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s coffee or acting.

From "The Legend of Immortals and Swords" to "Langya Ranking" to "Flowering Flowers", Hu Ge has had a hit drama at every stage of his acting career.

But compared with TV dramas, Hu Ge starred in fewer movies, and even fewer masterpieces were produced.

So far, the best film of Hu Ge’s career is probably "The Wild Goose Lake" directed by Diao Yinan.

Recently, he starred in the theater film "Stop and Go" was released, and I thought that this movie starring Hu Ge could be ranked second.

Compared to "The Wild Goose Lake", there is no way, and there is a gap in grades between directors. But compared to "It’s Worth It", which won the Best Actor of the Shanghai Film Festival for Hu Ge before, "Stop and Go" has similarities in genre and theme, but the overall is much better.

More importantly, "The Wild Goose Lake" is more significant to Diao Yinan than Hu Ge, and Hu Ge’s performance in it can be regarded as futile at best, but "Stop and Go" has opened up a new track for Hu Ge.

Let’s talk about the movie itself first.

"Stop and Go" is a very "small" movie.

It had nothing to do with grandeur. It was about the little things that happened to the little people, and the director didn’t have much ambition. He didn’t want his movie to be linked to the big word "era".

The key word for the film is two words, go home. To put it more bluntly, it is the other two words, lie flat.

Wu Di, the protagonist played by Hu Ge, belongs to the North Drift Return crowd.

He worked as a screenwriter in Beijing, but he repeatedly hit a wall, and eventually failed in his emotional career and couldn’t get along, so he returned to his hometown of Sichuan.

In crime movies, this kind of person is most likely to have a big vote, but in literary movies, the trash will of course continue to live in a way that is heartbroken but free on the surface.

After Wu Di returned to his hometown, he immediately entered a state of mixed eating and waiting to die. A scene that reflects his state is that he is mixed in a group of the elderly queuing up to get eggs.

This scene also formed a connection with the main storyline, Gao Yuanyuan played the heroine Feng Liuliu appeared, as the host of the TV station, she was shooting this group of eggs for the elderly, but accidentally found high school classmate Wu Di mixed in.

Therefore, she came up with an idea to make a documentary with Wu Di as the protagonist.

Feng Liuliu’s behavior of shooting whatever he wants is very inconsistent with the tonality of local TV stations. The local stations in our impression, in addition to broadcasting painless advertisements and selling drugs for the elderly, will at most provide local leaders with a platform to show their self-charm. A host casually catches an old classmate and wants to shoot a documentary. This is nonsense among nonsense.

But nonsense is nonsense, the scene where Wu Di and Feng Liuliu met for the first time was really good.

Fortunately, the description of the characters.

The highlight is in the conversation between the two.

Wu Di met Feng Liuliu and was a little embarrassed, saying that he was "Gap". This reaction was very accurate. He bluntly said that he was unemployed and went home. Although he was honest, he was too sad, which would make the temperament of the film dim all of a sudden. He pretended to say that he actually had a job and just went home for vacation, and it was too hypocritical, which made the character unpleasant. He said that he was in "Gap", which was in line with the characteristics of the character as a literary youth.

Feng Liuliu is the character of an idealist in the film, and her ideas are relatively simple, which is also in line with the appearance of the actor. After all, if she grows into Gao Yuanyuan, she will not be beaten too much in reality. The characteristics of idealists are that they are easy to fake and empty, like to talk useless big words, and are especially willing to pretend to be very realistic. When she met Wu Di, she wanted to make a documentary, and she also said this sentence:

Middle-aged people like you often face a double burden.

Note that it’s not just middle-aged male characters who have fatherhood.

Wu Di’s reaction was very good. He didn’t think he was a middle-aged man, so he was stunned. He repeated the words "middle-aged man", but it became a question.

You look at Wu Di as if he should have eaten and slept when he returned home, but in fact, he didn’t. At this moment, he was stunned and exposed everything. Wu Di was just running away from his failure like a child.

Feng Liuliu took it well, saying that you are two months older than me, why are you not middle-aged?

Wu Di took it better. He didn’t follow the topic and turned a corner. What he said was:

You still remember my birthday.

The oppressive atmosphere caused by Feng Liuliu not speaking human words was instantly reversed, and Wu Di’s personality characteristics were once again highlighted. More importantly, the relationship between the two people was brought closer by this line.

In the film, Feng Liuliu may not really take Wu Di’s birthday seriously. Wu Di is very surprised. It is probably a reaction at that time. It does not mean that he will rekindle love because of this information point, but in the eyes of the audience, they will naturally look forward to something happening between them.

This made the movie look good. Many viewers would subconsciously shy away from literary films because some directors of literary films were too boring to film. Whether or not the artistry was put aside for the time being, and the audience could not see it, it would be difficult to find your artistic exploration and ideological expression.

The advantages and disadvantages of "Stop and Go" are symbiotic. His advantages are that the details are handled humanely, the characters are fresh enough, the lines are well written, and the rhythm is properly arranged. The disadvantage is that the living environment provided to the protagonist Wu Di in the film is a purified ideal world, as if as long as he returns home, everything will really be quiet, and even the opportunity to realize his ideal will appear.

Feng Liuliu made a documentary for Wu Di, saw the script written by Wu Di, and suggested that he make a movie. As a result, Wu Di really started filming.

This matter is no longer science fiction, and can basically be included in the category of magic.

Wu Di, who failed in Beipiao, should understand what the three words of making a movie mean. Don’t look at the Apple advertisement saying that you need a mobile phone to make a movie. Although Xu Lei used his father to make "Sherlock on the Plain", it also cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Of course, Wu Di had no money, so Wu Di’s mother gave Wu Di his father’s private money, but it was not much, 10,000 yuan.

What if there are no actors? His mother, Jiang Meiling, is the female lead, and the male lead? Call Lao Li, the pillar of the drama troupe. Lao Li also cooperated very much, and he was so idle that he agreed immediately.

Wu Di could be both a director and a screenwriter, so where could he find a photographer? Feng Liuliu didn’t want to make a documentary, but the TV station had a photographer. Coincidentally, this photographer liked Ozu as much as Wu Di, and also had the dream of making movies, so he was willing to volunteer labor, so he didn’t have to worry about the equipment, so he just appropriated it.

All the idealists in Sichuan surrounded Wu Di.

It has to be said that when these "golden fingers" accumulate to a certain extent, the reality of the film has been stripped away. In a sense, it is no different from a martial arts film. The difference is that martial arts may really exist, but the vacuum environment Wu Di is in is absolutely impossible to exist.

But what’s great about "Stop and Go" is that it held me back with characters and details.

I knew that the movie was a nonsense, but I was still attracted by it. I knew that there wasn’t much left in the movie’s reality, but I was still moved by the characters in the movie.

This is a very contradictory point, but it also reflects a certain dilemma faced by domestic film creators. Some of them are really good at making movies, especially writing single scenes, and know how to impress audiences, but the subject matter they have to deal with is likely to be either as distorted as air or as tasteless as water.

The scenes in the main plot of "Stop and Go" were shot with a high degree of completion, vividly portraying the Wu Di family and Lao Li and other characters, completing each single scene with great fun, and also making the emotional concentration become higher and higher in the development of the film’s plot. Finally, Wu Di’s father made up the shots for his deceased wife, which reached the peak of the moving level.

As far as the temperament of the film is concerned, there is a bit of Woody Allen’s taste. The director not only pays tribute to Woody Allen with the name of the male lead and the poster on the wall, but also has a touch of humor and sadness.

What really made me like the movie more than disappointed was the director’s handling of the ending.

If something really happened to Wu Di and Feng Liuliu in the film, then the film would be completely deflated. The director is very smart, and at the end of the film, Wu Di took over his sister’s class and became a taxi driver. The driving encountered congestion, and as a result, he met Feng Liuliu’s family who had been reunited with his ex-husband. Two lanes, two people and two cars stopped and stopped, the cars did not intersect, and there was no conversation. Everything was just right, with a little regret, but isn’t life like this?

This ending is ingenious enough, designed and natural. It is the point of the full score composition, but it is not so contrived, which is in line with the overall life flow of the film.

The director will arrange for Wu Di to become a taxi driver at the end, indicating that he knows what reality is like, and that he can make Wu Di and the others’ filming process interesting, indicating that he knows what life is like, but unfortunately, he still failed to find the perfect balance between realism and literary temperament. Inevitably, there will be distortion, but since the completion is high enough, many audiences, including me, can tolerate its shortcomings.

In other words, this is indeed a movie with a good sentence but no good chapter, but compared to many domestic films that don’t even have a good sentence, it is already a general among the shorts.

For Hu Ge, the significance of this film is that it allows Hu Ge to meet a particularly suitable role for him, that is, a dejected Wenqing boy with a bit of optimism.

In addition, although it is a bit far-fetched to classify "Stop and Go" as a comedy, if Hu Ge can use this film to realize that he can do comedy, and other directors can also see Hu Ge’s potential in comedy films, it will open up a few new possibilities for Hu Ge’s acting career.

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　　[PConline Information]The mobile phone industry supply chain is gradually maturing and complete, and large manufacturers such as Huawei mobile phones have higher bargaining power in the selection of raw materials and accessories. And in the recently hyped sapphire screen, Huawei P7 has already used sapphire screen, becoming the first independent sapphire screen mass production model in the Chinese domestic market. The production process of such high-strength materials is not simple.

　　Known by the media as "never wear" sapphire screen, it has a hardness second only to diamond, and its production and processing difficulty and high price have made it used in high-end watches and precision optical instrument lenses. With technological breakthroughs, sapphire can finally be applied to mobile phones. And Huawei has brought a new upgrade to the Huawei P7 mobile phone that has been put into mass production with the help of sapphire technology. This 4G mobile phone released in Paris, France won the Best Consumer Smartphone Award in Europe for its good shape design and user experience. After getting the configuration of the new sapphire screen, it will become stronger and more perfect.

　　The bubble production method, the most important technology in the production of sapphire raw materials, not only determines the output of sapphire, but also determines the final quality of the material. Due to the complex process and long production cycle, the production of sapphire materials suitable for industrial fields places strict requirements on equipment and production environment. Because of this, as of today, only a few companies can produce sapphire materials for screens.

　　In 2013, Apple invested a huge amount of 578 million US dollars in cooperation with GTAT, the world’s largest crystal manufacturer, to buy out GTAT’s future production of sapphire long-crystal furnace equipment. Faced with the situation of "blockade" of raw materials in a short period of time, Huawei, which has the ability to regulate the industry chain, actively deploys resources to promote the improvement of the domestic sapphire industry chain. While the media is paying attention to the expansion of production capacity of Apple’s sapphire production plant in the United States, China’s local sapphire suppliers have taken the lead in releasing 150 kilograms of sapphire crystals in the world.

　　While obtaining scarce raw materials, Huawei has not relaxed its control over product quality. Since sapphire itself is a brittle material, the industry has always questioned its tolerance. Huawei and suppliers have conducted many tests to optimize the quality of the material. After the in-situ annealing of the long crystal rear section, crystal brick cutting, wafer grinding, and re-annealing after polishing, Huawei’s production of sapphire screens has not only eliminated the internal stress of sapphire, but also significantly improved the strength of sapphire. This meticulous attitude towards quality requirements may be more important than the more important use of high-end configurations.

　　Over the past decade or so, Huawei’s pursuit of leading technology and cutting-edge quality has never been slack. In 2013, Huawei’s investment in research and development reached 30.70 billion yuan, equivalent to about 5.10 billion US dollars, accounting for 12.8% of the annual sales revenue. This is the tenth consecutive year that Huawei has maintained its R & D investment at a high level of no less than 10% of revenue, far exceeding the average level of 6-8% prevailing in the "Global Top 500". As China gradually becomes the world’s largest consumer market for smartphones, to break the monopoly of imported brands in the high-end market, only through continuous investment in R & D and continuous innovation of product technology.

　　　　　In the manufacturing process of Huawei P7 sapphire screen. Due to the existence of sapphire material is hard, high surface energy, poor adhesion of the special finger, the screen processing process is slightly careless can lead to complete destruction of the material. How does the edge processing of sapphire not produce collapse? How to punch holes in the cover plate? Nowadays, the CNC numerical control machine tool hyped by many mobile phone brands can no longer meet the production and processing of sapphire screens. For this reason, Huawei has specially selected a supplier with processing patented technology, using the world’s leading laser non-destructive cutting and precision edge polishing process to solve the problems in the production process.

　　　　In the ink silk screen printing and AF coating process, Huawei has conducted more in-depth and detailed research. Through the adjustment of ink formula and composition, after testing dozens of ink schemes and adjusting the ink baking process, Huawei finally found an ink suitable for sapphire; in the process of developing new AF materials, in order to obtain an ultra-silky and highly wear-resistant anti-fingerprint AF film, Huawei adjusted the coating process according to the actual production experiment. During the production process, it also conducted a steel wool wear resistance test, which reached 5,000 cycles, and finally passed the material improvement and process optimization. It is the adherence to the quality-focused strategy over the years that has allowed Huawei’s rigorous and pragmatic attitude to be integrated into every detail of the mobile phone.

　　For the vast majority of Chinese consumers, simply having the best configuration is not enough to be called the best product, because the high-end configuration may not match the daily usage habits of consumers; for Huawei, there are always some steps that must be taken to transform cutting-edge manufacturing technology into a satisfactory product experience for Chinese consumers.

　　An internal confidential material with version number V1.0 clearly records Huawei’s rigorous product testing content, involving dozens of tests such as stress, drop, temperature, electromagnetism, and saline-alkali corrosion. In order to test the reliability of the mobile phone, a variety of scene modes such as free fall, low temperature controlled drop, and roller drop are set up in the drop process alone, and the test qualification standard is even set as many as 4,000 times for common micro-drops. For the huge environmental differences between northern and southern China, Huawei even specially set artificial sweat to test whether the mobile phone can maintain normal mechanical and electrical performance under complex use conditions after being immersed in saline-alkali corrosive liquid.

　　The production of Huawei Sapphire P7 in 2014 also went through dozens of complex tests such as four-point bend test, ball drop test, extrusion test, transmittance test, hardness test, coating test, TP/LCD test, drum test, drop test, high temperature and humidity test, etc., which proved the excellent product quality of Huawei P7 and verified the leading industry standard of Huawei mobile phone in hardness, temperature, signal and other performance indicators.

　　The homogeneity of goods is serious, and the quality is also criticized by consumers

　　The ten dollar store standing at the crossroads

　　"I love going to the ten-dollar store because I know I can afford everything in it," Xiaolin told reporters. But recently, she found that in the ten-dollar store she frequented, there were fewer and fewer real 10-yuan items, and earphones that used to cost only 15 yuan had risen to nearly 50 yuan.

　　In the past two years, grocery stores represented by "Mingchuang Premium Products" have blossomed everywhere. Some small goods such as headgear and tableware have been delicately packaged and placed in bright stores. Most of them sell for less than 10 yuan, which is very popular with consumers. However, recently, reporters visited a number of small commodity stores and found that the proportion of goods within 10 yuan has dropped significantly, and 100 yuan goods have gradually entered the room. Some products are not only seriously homogenized, but also criticized by consumers. Some stores also rely on "fake discounts" to attract consumers.

　　Experts say that today’s consumer demand is changing very fast, and the ten yuan store is also standing at a crossroads, and the goods are being upgraded and graded rapidly. In such a market, it is difficult for the ten yuan store to maintain the goods at a certain price for a long time. The operators of the ten yuan store also use 10 yuan goods to attract customers, and use higher-priced goods to profit.

　　Mingchuang Premium: less than one-third of the 10 yuan product

　　Last Tuesday evening, the reporter visited the Mingchuang Premium Store on the first floor of Yuedu Hui Shopping Mall in Xicheng District. The store has a wide range of kitchen and bathroom utensils, small household items, electronic products, and other products, and the sales prices are also uneven. Most small daily necessities are 10 yuan, the price of toys ranges from 25 yuan to 50 yuan, and the price of electronic products is basically more than 30 yuan.

　　Mr. Zhu picked out a power bank priced at 89.9 yuan and was ready to go to the checkout page to check out. When queuing up, he opened the mobile phone shopping software and found that it was also a 10,000 mAh power bank, and the price of the Xiaomi brand power bank was only 79 yuan. Mr. Zhu, who quit the checkout line, put the power bank back on the shelf. "Xiaomi specializes in mobile phones and accessories. The quality should be more reliable than Mingchuang Youpin, but the price is cheaper than here."

　　Among electronic products, there is a small aromatherapy humidifier of 99 yuan that is very attractive. The machine is in the shape of a vase, and the bottle mouth emits light smoke. The bottle is equipped with a light, and the light will change to different colors. Then the reporter searched on Taobao and found that the price of an air humidifier of the same specification is between 50 yuan and 100 yuan. Customer Xiaomei told reporters that this aromatherapy humidifier looks similar to a certain humidifier of Muji, but it is cheaper, so it has attracted many people’s attention. But after buying it back, he found that the amount of fog is very small. In less than a few months, not only the light is not on, but also the spray is not sprayed.

　　Since its establishment in 2013, Miniso has entered large and small shopping malls, many of which are in prime locations. Open the map and the reporter can find nine branches of Miniso within a five-kilometer radius. Recently, according to several media reports, Miniso is planning an initial public offering, raising about 1 billion US dollars. As the business expands rapidly, many consumers say that Miniso, which originally attracted people with "10 yuan high-quality life", is now more and more expensive. The product with the most concentrated complaints is the mobile phone data cable. Several customers said, "The Apple mobile phone data cable that used to be only 15 yuan has now risen to 49.9 yuan, or even more expensive." The reporter found in the store that, as consumers said, the data cable was priced at 49.9 yuan and 59.9 yuan. Subsequently, the reporter randomly selected 50 products in the Mingchuang Premium Store, only 17 of which were priced at 10 yuan or less. These low-priced products were concentrated in the categories of daily chemical products and small household accessories.

　　Nomi Home Furnishing: I see the discount label but not the price discount.

　　Zhang Xiaoyang (a pseudonym), who often visits Nomi Home Furnishings, has been a little confused recently: the store is clearly full of yellow labels with "50% off for two pieces and 40% off for three pieces", and the store’s radio is also broadcasting "End-of-season clearance, some products are discounted". Zhang Xiaoyang specially asked the clerk which discounts were on, and the clerk waved his hand and said that the ones with the yellow labels were all discounted. So Zhang Xiaoyang happily picked up the discounted labels on the shelf, and in order to collect the 40% off quantity, she specially picked three pieces. "Because I am very familiar with this store, I always feel that the price is wrong when I walk out of the store, because the cashier didn’t give me a receipt at the time, so I went back to ask for it. After seeing it, I realized that I didn’t give me a penny discount." The checkout page explained that the labels on the shelves were for the promotion of the store, and it did not mean that the items below the labels would be discounted. "I feel like I’m being cheated. If the store didn’t put discounted labels on it, I would definitely not buy so many pieces."

　　At noon on weekdays last week, the reporter visited Nomi Home Furnishing, which Zhang Xiaoyang described on Qianmen Street. The store is simple and large, and it sells mostly women’s and children’s products. When the reporter asked whether the labeled goods were all discounted, the clerk replied: "Not necessarily."

　　Most of the stationery, snacks, tableware and other items sold by Nomi Home Furnishing cost 10 yuan or less, while many other categories, such as aromatherapy machines, speakers, power banks, etc., cost around 100 yuan. Ms. Wu, who was shopping with a full shopping basket, told reporters that what attracted her to the store was that the prices of many small goods were relatively close to the people, and there would be discount activities. "But not all goods are discounted, and the prices of many goods are indeed not cheap. Sometimes when you have a good time shopping, you will buy some expensive goods." Ms. Wu dug out a 239 yuan dress in the shopping basket and told reporters.

　　In the ten yuan store, there are a lot of "hundred yuan goods"

　　With the improvement of citizens’ consumption level, more and more well-packaged small commodity stores have opened into the mall. From sewing boxes, screwdrivers, rubber bands to earphones, speakers, humidifiers, the price of goods can range from a few yuan to 100 yuan. When the reporter visited, he found that many goods in the "ten yuan store" that are really priced within 10 yuan are concentrated in stationery, tableware, snacks and other categories. And other types of goods in the store are not cheap.

　　Unlike the aforementioned small commodity stores, which attract people with low prices and discounts, in the Jiumu grocery store, which is also blooming in major shopping malls, many products are more than 100 yuan, and only a few products are around 10 yuan. However, the chic design of the products still makes customers here crowded. The reporter found that the same size canvas bag is priced at about 40 yuan in the aforementioned grocery stores. The highest price here can be sold for 99 yuan. The price of children’s toys is mostly around 150 yuan. The price of various small accessories is also around 30 yuan. The goods under 10 yuan in the store are concentrated in the category of stationery, which accounts for a very small proportion. A mother and daughter were attracted by a pile of metal brooches, but when they saw the price of 35 yuan, they immediately called it "too expensive". A group of young people picked up the dinosaur gloves on the shelf and played with each other for a while, then finally dropped the gloves and left.

　　Founded in 2015, Ximei Eslite’s store design is very similar to that of Mingchuang Youpin: a white door face and a store logo with white characters on a red background. Last Friday afternoon, the reporter visited Ximei Eslite, which is located on the first floor of Soxiu City, Chongwenmen Street. At this time, there were more than a dozen customers in the store, all of whom were young women. The reporter randomly selected 30 items in the store, 12 of which were 10 yuan or less.

　　The ** (The Green Party) located in Guorui Shopping Center is located between the famous brand counters in the mall. According to the rough statistics of the reporter, only about 30% of the 10 yuan goods in the store.

　　Expert Reviews

　　Consumer demand changes rapidly, and it is difficult for ten yuan stores to maintain average prices

　　Why are there not many "ten yuan goods" in the ten yuan store? Yang Qingsong, secretary general of the China General merchandise Business Association, told the Beijing Evening News that this is related to the consumer market. "In the period of very fast economic development, it is difficult for small commodity stores to maintain most goods at a certain price and remain unchanged for a year or two."

　　Yang Qingsong said that according to the law, average price stores can actually achieve relatively large development when the commodity economy is relatively stable. Because at such a stage, market consumption is very stable, the price, variety and quality of consumer goods are in a state of balance, and the profit of average price stores can be relatively flat. However, in the stage of rapid economic development and large changes, there is no market for average price stores. "The momentum of Mingchuang Youpin was very strong in the first two years, but now consumer demand changes very quickly, and commodities are constantly being upgraded. In such a market environment, it is difficult to have the soil of average price. In order to attract consumers, Mingchuang Premium and similar small commodity stores need to constantly adjust and upgrade, and make changes in categories, and prices will also show diversity. "

　　As for the number of "100-yuan goods" popping up in the 10-yuan store, Yang Qingsong said that the general retailer’s strategy will distinguish between goods with passenger flow and goods with gross profit. For some goods, consumers are very sensitive to its price, and retailers will make enough low prices to attract consumers. For other goods, consumers are relatively less sensitive to its price, and rarely pay attention to how much more expensive this one is than that one, so such goods can be profitable.

　　Photo by our reporter, Xie Yuhang

On April 23rd, the Lynk & Co 05 Extreme Wisdom Coupe SUV family invited mainstream media in the region & Lynk & Co owners to participate in the tasting with the theme of "One Look Calling, Extreme Wisdom 05".

On the day of the event, although the sky was not beautiful and it rained lightly, it was still difficult to stop everyone’s enthusiasm. The atmosphere on site could be described as hot. Camping in the rain was a unique experience!

Lingke also very thoughtfully prepared raincoats, umbrellas, shoe covers and other props for all the friends present, and also prepared a souvenir for everyone!

Duan Xiaoqiang, Marketing Manager, Southern Anhui Region, Lynk & Co., Ltd.

Before the opening of the event, Mr. Duan Xiaoqiang, Marketing Manager of South Anhui Region of Lynk & Co Automobile, delivered a speech. He said: Since its birth, Lynk & Co 05 has been guided by user request and has achieved the ultimate product experience. With its unconventional personality design and intelligent technology, as well as leapfrog luxury power and safety strength, it has continued to lead the 200,000-class coupe SUV market segment.

From the Lynk & Co 05, to the Lynk & Co 05 +, and then to the addition of the Lynk & Co 05 EM-P, a complete Lynk & Co 05 ultra-intelligent coupe SUV family has been formed. Personality, intelligence, and driving control have never been a choice. The Lynk & Co 05 ultra-intelligent coupe SUV family integrates it uniquely. This is our response to user expectations and the latest interpretation of high-value SUVs.

Lynk & Co Automobile, Gold Lecturer, Shen Jianrui

Mr. Shen Jianrui, the gold medal lecturer of Lynk & Co Automobile, introduced in detail the three highlights of the Lynk & Co 05 extreme wisdom coupe SUV family:Advanced personality: a limited edition that is exciting at a glance;Advanced intelligence: let high-level intelligence not set a threshold;Advanced performance: Make performance more possible.

Lynk & Co Automobile, Gold Lecturer, Lu Fan

　 　 　 　Adhering to the brand’s original intention of "continuously changing mobile travel and making people love travel more", Lynk & Co has been promoting the iterative upgrade of smart cockpits for 6 years. At the event, Mr. Lu Fan, Lynk & Co’s gold medal lecturer, introduced LYNK OS N to the guests.

The new generation of Lynk & Co’s smart cockpit operating system, LYNK OS, takes "ease of use" as the core, uses the interaction logic familiar to users and operates mobile phones/tablets without thresholds, and realizes three functions: "super customization", "AI intelligent voice", and "boutique scene set". Among them, based on the industry’s first OCR scanning and recognition technology, LYNK OS N can achieve "full scene visibility can be said", and it can be done when it is said, bringing a better smart cockpit experience.

At present, the LYNK OS N smart cockpit system has been fully launched to all Lynk & Co 09 users on March 29.

The release of Lynk & Co’s smart cockpit is Lynk & Co’s insight and response to user expectations, and it is also a new starting point for Lynk & Co to fully accelerate its intelligent process. More than LYNK OS N, Lynk & Co will continue to explore more possibilities of smart cockpits in the future, continue to bring Lynk & Co users the most cutting-edge and trendy digital technology new experience, and empower all models under Lynk & Co.

Lynk & Co Tide Play Experience Camp

Interactive gifts, kite DIY, barbecue food, band interpretation, kayaking, Co guests want to experience, this time we are dedicated to presenting.

The on-site Lynk & Co 05EM-P test drive, guests enthusiastically participated, a total of smart luxury cockpit!

This time, the "call at a glance, the wisdom is like 05" Lingke 05 Extreme Wisdom Coupe SUV Family Tasting & Hefei stood in a piece of laughter and ushered in the end, which also made everyone feel the enthusiasm of Lingke for everyone, and looked forward to seeing you again in future activities. Let’s learn the outstanding strength of the Lingke family!

After a short slump, Cyrus finally has its own highlight moment again. The smart factory in Liangjiang New District is the main production base of Cyrus Automobile, and now it is fully loaded 22 hours a day.

This is due to the popularity of new models. AITO’s new M7 has exceeded 90,000, and even the unlisted M9 orders have exceeded 30,000.

Sailis Automobile is a leading enterprise in the automotive industry in Chongqing and Liangjiang New Area. In 2021, Sailis Automobile and Huawei jointly designed the "Smart Choice Vehicle" model, creating a precedent for cross-border cooperation between new energy automobile enterprises and ICT technology enterprises. It also opened up a new path for the booming Chinese new energy automobile industry.

Relying on this, Cyrus Automobile is playing an increasingly important role in building a world-class intelligent and connected new energy vehicle industry cluster in Chongqing. "In the past year, Cyrus Automobile has achieved a breakthrough in the new energy vehicle business from 0 to 1. In the future, we strive to achieve accelerated development from 1 to N." said Zhang Xinghai, chairperson (founder) of Cyrus Automobile.

"Back from the Dead."

From the second half of 2022 to the first half of this year, Cyrus suffered a serious sales decline, and the ensuing market doubts were also frequent.

In the face of difficulties, Zhang Xinghai chose to rise to the challenge – on the one hand, Sailis Automobile and Huawei formed a closer cooperation, and jointly established the "AITO Inquiry and Sales Service Joint Working Group", responsible for the end-to-end closed-loop management of marketing, sales, delivery, service and other businesses. On September 22, Sailis CARE Care Service Strategy was officially released, opening the era of Smart Service 3.0, and will be committed to building a full-link smart service system that runs through pre-sales, delivery and after-sales.

On the other hand, it is also more important. By continuously enriching the product matrix, Zhang Xinghai hopes to rebuild the confidence of the outside world in the increasingly fierce market competition.

On September 12, AITO asked the new M7 was listed, and in the following 64 days created a record of 90,000 vehicles in Dading. According to Zhang Xinghai, in December this year, asked the M9 will also be listed.

In order to ensure delivery, Sailis Automotive Smart Factory is making every effort to accelerate production capacity improvement. The entire supply chain has added 1 billion yuan and 20,000 more manpower. At present, AITO’s new M7 is being produced in batches, efficiently and steadily, and delivery has also been opened in many cities across the country.

Under a series of measures, the sales of Cyrus cars have finally turned around: in October 2023, the AITO series delivered 12,700 new cars, including 10,547 new cars for the new M7, and the monthly delivery of a single model exceeded 10,000, setting a record high.

This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei, CEO of End Point BG, and chairperson of Smart Car Solutions BU, even wrote a late-night post: "It’s not easy to come back to life!"

Zhang Xinghai said, "In the past year, Cyrus Automobile has achieved a breakthrough in the new energy vehicle business from 0 to 1. In the future, we strive to achieve accelerated development from 1 to N."

Three principles define the development code

In 1986, Zhang Xinghai founded Chongqing Baxian Phoenix Electric Spring Factory and began to cut into the field of automotive parts such as automobile shock absorbers. Since then, he has been deeply involved in the automotive industry for 37 years.

"From independent entrepreneurship to joint venture vehicle manufacturing, and then to cross-border business cooperation, we have always focused on physical manufacturing companies, constantly seeking survival, change, and upgrading." Zhang Xinghai said.

In the process, he summed up the "three insistences" – "adhere to innovation-driven, adhere to long-term, adhere to commercial success", and use them as the development principles of Cyrus Automotive.

More specifically, "adhering to innovation-driven" means to provide users with the ultimate product experience through technological innovation, product innovation and business model innovation, so as to promote the development of enterprises; "adhering to long-term doctrine" means to always focus on the physical manufacturing industry, with the blessing of core technologies, to further promote the quality-focused strategy, to provide users with the ultimate service throughout the life cycle of the car; "adhering to business success" means to first enable users to succeed, serve users wholeheartedly, and meet users’ yearning for a better car life. At the same time, actively build an all-connected car ecosystem, form a closed-loop business, drive the success of all ecological parties, and share the fruits of development.

The cooperation with Huawei reflects these three principles. The smart selection model jointly created by both parties has also brought a new idea to the development of China’s new energy automobile industry.

In 2021, Sailis and Huawei jointly launched an intelligent range extension/pure electric platform based on DriveONE, and in April of the same year, the two parties signed a new energy vehicle cooperation agreement. Under the smart selection mode, Huawei will deeply participate in product definition, styling design, marketing, user experience and other links, and work with car companies to build complete vehicles.

In Zhang Xinghai’s opinion, Sailis Automobile is Huawei’s most stable, most reliable and deepest partner, responsible for the research and development of new cars, intelligent manufacturing, service and creating a pleasant car experience throughout the life cycle; Huawei is an important integrator of software products in the Sailis automotive industry chain, empowered by core software and hardware technologies such as electrification and intelligent parts, and the advantages of both parties are complementary and win-win.

This in-depth cooperation has also given Cyrus more confidence to face competition head-on. At present, with the strong support of national policies, Chinese auto brands are achieving industrial lane change and overtaking through new energy transformation. However, the global new energy vehicle market landscape is far from certain. Some multinational car companies have awakened and begun to transform, and the competition in the global new energy vehicle market is becoming more intense.

"The new energy vehicle track is a marathon, with heavy assets and long-term investment. Finally, it must be a competition of technological innovation system and intelligent landing." Zhang Xinghai said.

It is worth mentioning that Sailis Automobile has invested more than 20 billion yuan in the field of new energy vehicles, of which the AITO project has invested more than 12 billion yuan. In June this year, AITO’s 100,000 car was officially rolled off the production line in Liangjiang New Area, becoming the fastest new energy vehicle brand to achieve this result.

He said that in the next step, Cyrus Automobile will continue to strengthen cooperation with important integrators of software-related products in the industrial chain, such as Huawei, and continue to deepen "software-defined vehicles" to help build an automotive powerhouse.

China Economic News Network (Liu Chenxi)Following the release of Jietu Shanhai new energy sequence to screen the whole network, Jietu Automobile once again detonated its concern. On November 17th, 2023 Guangzhou Auto Show was grandly opened. Jetway Auto made a heavy appearance with all-star lineups such as Jetway Shanhai L9, Jetway Shanhai L6, Jetway Traveler, Jetway Traveler C-DM and Jetway Traveler JMK modified cars, showing Jetway "Travel" in all dimensions.^+”The latest achievement of advanced strategy electrification tells the brand that thank you sir is fully committed to the new energy track.

Run fast, accelerate the sprint of 300,000 annual sales target.

Since its establishment, Jetway has always adhered to "travel"⁺"Strategic initial intention, creating" travel "from 2018 Jietu product sequence.⁺"Market segmentation, by 2023, Jietu Shanhai new energy sequence will open up a brand-new track of" travel+hybrid ",and Jietu Automobile will make great strides in the automobile stock market, creating a new record for the growth rate of China SUV brand with strong growth, and creating an exciting speed for China automobile market.

This year, in the face of the extremely involuted China auto market, Jetway once again ran out of the "Jetway Acceleration". In October, Jetway sold as many as 38,053 vehicles a month, 1-mdash; The cumulative sales volume in October increased by 64.7% year-on-year, making China’s cutting-edge SUV car companies the first in growth rate; Up to now, the cumulative sales volume in 2023 has reached 256,000 vehicles, ranking fifth in China brand fuel SUV market, ranking among the first camp, and successfully winning the trust of 870,000+users and the love of 39 million fans around the world. It is estimated that by the end of 2023, the annual sales volume of Jietu Automobile will exceed 300,000, and the total sales volume in the first five years will exceed 950,000.

Travelers "wild" to help out, achieving new growth in Jietu market

Jetway’s beautiful sales report card is inseparable from the strong help of Jetway travelers. Based on the real needs of users, Jietu Traveler has been created by more than 30 rounds of users. It has four advantages: beauty, joy, city and wildness, which can not only give users the excitement when they move forward, but also provide users with the comfort when they stop. It can not only satisfy users’ pursuit of universal beauty, but also realize the display of self-personality. Its appearance has successfully opened up the market segment of off-road SUV for travel and expanded and upgraded "travel"⁺"Strategy, let Jietu brand more and more" wild ".

Nowadays, cross-country travel has become a new fashion, and the appearance of Jietu travelers positioning "cross-country SUV" is the peak. The new car sold 7931 vehicles in the first month of listing, and the order has reached 43926 vehicles so far; Among them, the proportion of four-wheel drive purchase is as high as 85%, and the proportion of ecological modification is 62%, which fully shows the market popularity and user preference of Jetway travelers, and strongly helps Jetway to sprint through the annual sales target of 300,000 at the end of the year.

C-DM, a Jietu traveler who appeared at this auto show, directly hit the new trend of young people’s electric travel in the new era. The new car adopts Chery Kunpeng super-performance electric hybrid C-DM, equipped with 1.5TD DHE+3DHT165 high-efficiency hybrid power system, with a comprehensive battery life of 1000 km+; With 6.6kW external discharge function, it supports various camping equipment such as ovens and electric cookers. Using Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, it has the advantages of outstanding face value, powerful power, long comprehensive battery life and first-class safety performance. The new car is expected to go on the market in the first quarter of 2024, which is bound to become a new sales growth point of Jietu Automobile.

Shanhai L9 led the way, "Travel!⁺"Strategy advanced again.

In the face of the fierce wave of new energy, Jietu Automobile accelerated its overall transformation to new energy, and launched Jietu Shanhai new energy product series on the eve of Guangzhou Auto Show, and officially listed its first model — — "Big family, big seven-seat super hybrid SUV" Jetway Shanhai L9, driven by electric hybrid "travel"⁺"Strategy advanced again.

Jietu Shanhai is positioned as a "leader of hybrid cross-country travel", and will launch a strategic layout from five aspects: new sequence, new products, new channels, new ecology and new team to build the world’s first hybrid cross-country brand. Jietu Shanhai relies on Kunlun cross-country platform, Kunpeng super hybrid C-DM technology, lion intelligent cabin/great wisdom driving, extremely changeable space scene ability, "travel"⁺Ecological platform and other five advantages to build the core of product technology, to meet the new travel needs of users who are more convenient, more rational, more immersed and more social.

At the auto show, Jietu Shanhai L9 made its first public appearance after listing. The new car has a long body of 4862mm and a long wheelbase of 2850mm, which is extremely changeable and more in line with the needs of large family users. Using Kunpeng Super Hybrid C-DM, it has an industry-leading thermal efficiency of 44.5%, and the cruising range under comprehensive working conditions reaches 1100Km；; Equipped with Qualcomm 8155 high computing platform, it provides more than 15,000 books on the road, which is convenient for users to plant their own tourist routes at any time. Jietu Shanhai L9 is also the first hybrid model that promises the lifetime warranty of the whole vehicle, and it can be called "the most ideal car with a class of 200,000".

In the next two years, Jietu Shanhai will launch eight new hybrid products, including urban Yueye SUV series, hard-core off-road SUV series and pickup truck series, covering mixed family travel and mixed off-road travel. And innovate the service mode to create exclusive "travel"⁺"The new ecology, it is estimated that 300 mountain and sea experience centers will be officially opened by the end of this year, and the number will increase to 450 by the end of 2024, providing users with 24-hour free charging, free opening of lounges and live broadcast rooms, and 50 km on-site test drive experience services anytime and anywhere.

Facing the future, Jetway will continue to insist on "travel"⁺At the beginning of the strategy, with Jietu Shanhai as the fulcrum, we will create a new business card of "travel+mixing" and create a charged "travel" for users.⁺"Full-scene value experience, driving the brand up and value jump, striding forward towards the goal of becoming a club with an annual sales of one million in 2026, in the" travel "⁺"Run out of the new speed on the road.

　

　　Lost "life saving money".

　　A few days ago, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced that the strategic investment agreement signed with Newton Group was terminated. original transaction and relatedThe amendments failed to achieve further development.

　　Said that, as at the date of this announcement, no further progress has been made on the proposed transaction and the amendment of its terms. The Company confirms that the proposed transaction and will no longer proceed. As the Share Subscription is no longer taking place, the Subscriber is under no obligation under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code to make an unconditional mandatory general offer in respect of all issued Shares which it and persons acting in concert with it have not yet owned or agreed to acquire.

　　ShanghaiNewspaper reporters recently interviewed and learned that Hengda, which once built high-profile cross-border cars, has been mired in crisis.

　　Hengchi Automobile Tianjin Factory Production Line

500 million dollar "lifesaving money" is gone

　　On August 14, 2023, Hengda Automobile announced that it received the first US $500 million strategic investment from NWTN.US, a listed company held by the UAE sovereign fund, and another RMB 600 million transition funds will arrive in the account five working days after the announcement. The proposed transaction between the two parties is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2023. After the completion of the transaction, the shareholding ratio of Newton Group to Hengda Automobile will account for 27.5% of the total number of issued ordinary shares after the expansion.

　　At that time, the market believed that the Newton investment would be a "life-saving money" for Evergrande. Evergrande had announced that the company planned to use all the war investment funds for Evergrande’s Tianjin plant to ensure the normal production of Hengchi 5 and the successive mass production of Hengchi 6 and Hengchi 7. Newton Group will also assist Evergrande in exploring overseas markets and achieve the annual export of 30,000 – 50,000 Hengchi cars to the Middle East market. However, the deal comes with 19 prerequisites, includingWorkout takes effect, no major adverse impact events, etc.

　　On January 1, 2024, Hengda Automobile announced that the Newton Group’s share purchase agreement and the company’s debt-for-equity subscription agreement for Hengda Automobile had expired on December 31, 2023. The deadline for these two agreements is December 31, 2023, and the parties to the agreement have not agreed to extend them.

　　Evergrande Motor said that the parties to the Newtown Group share purchase agreement and the debt-for-equity swap subscription agreement, as well as certain stakeholders, have been and will continue to negotiate on amending certain key terms of the proposed transaction and the debt-for-equity swap. The company will make monthly announcements until the exact intention to proceed with the proposed transaction and the debt-for-equity swap is announced or the decision not to proceed with the proposed transaction and the debt-for-equity swap is made.

　　Hengchi Automobile Tianjin Factory Production Line

Evergrande Automobile’s performance has exploded, and its business has stagnated

　　The latest financial report shows that Hengda Automobile listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2023 annual revenue of RMB 1.34 billion yuan, net loss of RMB 11.995 billion yuan, a year-on-year reduction of 56.64%. As of December 31, 2023, Hengda Automobile has delivered more than 1389 vehicles.

　　In 2019, Hengda’s Hengchi Automobile brand was born, and it also participated in the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show with a high profile. It launched 9 pure electric models in one go, and its booth area exceeded that of the same international first-tier car companies. At that time, Liu Yongzhuo, president of Hengchi Automobile, said that in the fourth quarter of 2021, Hengchi Automobile will start full trial production, and large-scale delivery will be carried out in 2022. However, it was not until April 2022 that three Hengchi 5 cars were actually unveiled. Six months later, Hengchi 5 was finally delivered. However, Hengchi Automobile soon fell into quality doubts. Since then, due to insufficient funds, Hengchi Automobile’s Tianjin factory has suspended production of Hengchi 5.

　　However, the betThe car track is still trying to help its Hengda car, which is also listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, out of trouble after falling into a liquidity crisis. At the end of May 2023, TianjinLeaders led a team to carry out research services at Hengchi Automobile’s Tianjin factory. Hengchi Automobile introduced that Hengchi’s Tianjin factory has now fully resumed production. Liu Yongzhuo said that the company will make every effort to speed up the production and delivery of Hengchi 5, and continue to promote the development and production of subsequent models to make the company bigger and stronger.

　　A Hengchi Automobile employee told reporters that in mid-2023, the company also made some efforts, such as imitating other automobile companies to hold Hengchi Chongqing Chengdu car owners’ mountaintop camping activities, which were mainly targeted atOTA online upgrade with optimized management system and charging logic.

　　But the good times did not last long. Hengda Automobile announced on January 8 that Liu Yongzhuo, the executive director of the company, has been detained according to law for suspected illegal crimes. In addition, Hengda Hengchi Automobile (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. recently added three pieces of information about the person being executed, with a total target of 98 million yuan.

　　The reporter learned that since March 1, employees of Hengchi Automobile Tianjin have been unable to enter the office building with facial recognition, and the facial recognition machine shows that "the person is not registered". The person in charge of media relations of Hengchi Automobile also told reporters that he usually does not go to the company, does not connect with the media, and no one hands over the job. "Now there are no people in the brand department of Hengchi."

　　"Evergrande’s car manufacturing industry is currently in deep crisis." Zhang Junyi, a managing partner of Oliver Wyman Consulting, told reporters that on the one hand, assets such as Hengchi Automobile’s Tianjin factory have been mortgaged many times, making it difficult to find a successor. On the other hand, with a fierce price war, the domestic new energy automobile industry has entered a stage of overcapacity. The assets of Wenzhou and Huanggang, the two production bases of Weimar Automobile, which had gone bankrupt and reorganized, have not been taken care of.

Industrial trends

　　01 360 released Zhinao 4.0, which has the ability of cross-modal generation.

　　On June 13th, 360 Company held the application conference of 360 Zhinao Big Model, the cognitive general big model "360 Zhinao 4.0" was unveiled, and the 360AI digital man was officially released.

　　In addition, Zhou Hongyi said that the key to overtaking China’s self-developed large model curve in the GPT era is to develop multi-modes. 360 Zhinao has the ability of cross-modal generation, and has the ability of text, image, voice and video processing, which can be applied to scenes such as Wensheng map, Wensheng map and Wensheng video. At the same time, 360AI Digital People Square was released, providing more than 200 roles, including digital celebrities, digital employees and other categories.

　　At the meeting, the multi-modal function of 360 Zhinao "Wensheng Video" was first launched in China, and any text script can generate video, which is not limited by professional skills and materials, showing the ability of "making something out of nothing".

　　Zhou Hongyi said that the core innovation of 360 in the big model lies in AI digital people, and digital people are the future.The most important application entrance of large model. 360 will redefine "digital people" based on the ability of 360 wisdom brain model. Different from traditional digital people who can only output content according to established scripts, 360AI digital people are characterized by having memories, people’s designs and personalities, and being able to reproduce their way of thinking and life experiences.

　　02 can generate video with one click, and Gen2 is open for free trial.

　　Recently, Runway, which is known as the video version of Midjourney and provides technical support for Stable Diffusion and Instant Universe, has developed an AI video editing tool Gen, which has been upgraded from the first generation in February to the second generation, and has been officially released from internal testing.

　　In February of this year, Runway released a model named Gen-1, which can transform an existing video into a new video by applying any style specified by text prompts or reference images.

　　Just over a month later, Runway officially released the more powerful Gen-2 on March 20th, completing the transformation from "editing existing videos" to "Wensheng videos", and providing multiple functions such as text+reference images to generate videos, still pictures to videos, and video style migration. Now, after the internal test in March, Gen2 finally opened a free trial-although the video it generated is only 4 seconds at present, and it has a total usage quota of 105 seconds.

　　In terms of pricing, the standard edition member of Gen2 is 15 dollars/month, the Pro edition member is 35 dollars/month, and the annual membership can get 20% discount.

　　According to reports, Twitter user Steve Mills has experienced its potential ability to generate MV in the Gen-2 beta. This user generated a total of about 500 seconds of video, and finally edited it into a 140-second MV.

　　The author estimates that the whole production will cost at least $30 at the price of the public version. Coupled with the previous study and exploration stage, this price will be higher.

　　Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO and co-founder of Runway, once said when Gen-1 was released: "We have witnessed the explosion of image generation model, and I firmly believe that 2023 will be a year of video generation model."

　　Chatgpt update, which can generate visual animation with one click.

　　On June 13th, local time, OpenAI announced a major update to its large-scale language model API (including GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-turbo), including adding function calling function and reducing the use cost. After updating, the cost of embedded model is reduced by 75%, and the tokens input length of GPT-3.5-turbo is extended to 16,000.

　　Since the end of March, ChatGPT update announced the launch of plug-in function, the number of third-party plug-ins has increased from 10 to more than 70. With the support of these plug-ins, ChatGPT can not only generate web pages and help users find jobs, but also visualize data directly according to their needs. ……

　　At present, the new version of the model has gradually begun to iterate. The latest versions of gpt-4-0613, gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 and gpt-4-32k-0613 with extended context length all support function calls. Gpt-3.5-turbo-16k does not support function calls, and provides four times the context length, which means that one request can support about 20 pages of text.

　　In addition, the old model began to be gradually abandoned. Applications using the initial version of gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4 will be automatically upgraded to the new version on June 27th. Developers who need more time to transition can also manually specify to continue using the old version, but all requests for the old version will be completely abandoned after September 13th.

　　04 Nature refuses to post the generated pictures and videos.

　　On June 13th, local time, Nature magazine announced in an editorial that in order to ensure the integrity, transparency and morality of the research, no pictures, videos or illustrations created by using generative AI tools will be published, unless they are articles related to artificial intelligence.

　　However, Nature does not completely exclude artificial intelligence. The magazine still allows the use of text generated by generative artificial intelligence in articles, as long as it is clearly stated in the method or acknowledgment section. In addition, all sources of data, even data generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence, must be provided by the author. However, Nature firmly refuses to accept any generative artificial intelligence tool as the author of the paper.

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Frontiers of science and technology

　　01 Meta Releases the First Humanoid Model

　　Meta announced on June 13th local time that it will open some components of a new "humanoid" artificial intelligence model to researchers, which can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing models.

　　This model is called I-JEPA, which uses the background knowledge of the world to fill in the missing parts of the image, instead of inferring only from nearby pixels like other generative artificial intelligence models. This method adopts the humanoid reasoning method advocated by Yann LeCun, the chief artificial intelligence scientist of Meta Company, which helps to avoid the common mistakes in the image generated by artificial intelligence, such as the problem of having an extra finger.

　　Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said that sharing the model developed by Meta with other researchers can help the company promote innovation, find security vulnerabilities and reduce costs. He told investors in April this year: "For us, if the industry standardizes the basic tools we are using, then we can benefit from the improvement of others."

　　02 DeepMind releases new AI system to discover faster algorithms.

　　Researchers at Google DeepMind, an AI research laboratory owned by Alphabet (GOOG), released a new AI system on Wednesday, which can improve the efficiency and sustainability of computing.

　　DeepMind said that this latest breakthrough, published in the scientific journal Nature, focuses on finding faster computer algorithms. The computer algorithm isThe foundation is used by enterprises for trillions of times every day.

　　This AI lab in London is famous for pioneering AI models, such as AlphaFold and mastering complex Go.AlphaGo, which named its new AI system AlphaDev. Based on AlphaZero (iteration of AlphaGo), the system uses reinforcement learning to find faster algorithms for computer science functions such as sorting and hashing. Reinforcement learning is a form of machine learning, in which computers learn and make their own strategies.

　　Colin Murdoch, chief business officer of DeepMind, said, "This means that we can use fewer resources to do the same amount of calculations."

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　　01 Huawei won the trademark "Wen Jie" and intended to build a car alone?

　　Trademark electronicsThe system shows that a total of 21 applications for trademark transfer of "Wenjie" have been approved. The transferor is Beijing Yongan Shida Trade Co., Ltd. and Beijing Kechuang Huida Trade Co., Ltd., and the transferee is Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. The receipt time of the transfer application is March 7 and 8 this year.

　　The specific categories of trademarks involve categories 12, 9, 7, 39, 37, 42, 2, 35, 3, 4, 16, 38, 11, 1, 5, 21, 27 and 41, of which categories 12 and 9 respectively represent automobiles and vehicles, electronic products and scientific instruments.

　　According to the first financial report, Huawei responded that "Huawei does not build cars alone, but builds good cars with car companies" has not changed.

　　In addition, according to the science and technology innovation board Daily, the successful transfer of the trademark "Wen Jie" by Huawei means that Huawei will have the dominant position in the trademark, and it will become the unified brand name of Huawei’s intelligent car selection model in the future.

　　02 The price of the whole department was reduced by 30,000 yuan, and the price of ES8 fell below 500,000 yuan.

　　On June 12th, Auto (hereinafter referred to as "") announced that it would adjust the price of all new cars, and the starting price of all models of the company was reduced by 30,000 yuan.

　　After adjustment, the starting price of ET5 fell below 300,000 yuan to 298,000 yuan; The brand-new ES6 just listed in May this year also dropped to 338,000 yuan, and the price of the brand-new ES8 launched at the end of last year also fell below 500,000 yuan.

　　This adjustment is not limited to the price, and the car rights of Weilai users have also been lowered.

　　Specifically, the rights and interests of the first owner of a new car purchase user are adjusted to a 6-year or 150,000-kilometer warranty for the whole vehicle, of which the three-power system can enjoy a 10-year unlimited mileage warranty; Free power exchange will no longer be used as the basic car rights, users can choose to pay a single fee for power exchange, and then a flexible power supply package will be launched.

　　For the users who have already picked up the car, Weilai promises that the rights and interests of the first car owner will remain unchanged. At the same time, when buying a new car from Weilai, the old users can choose to transfer the car rights of the original car to the new car, or choose to give up their car rights to deduct the car purchase price of 30,000-50,000 yuan. Li Bin, CEO of the company, explained that the old users can choose to give up their rights when buying a new car, which means that they can get 60,000-80,000 yuan cheaper.