▌ News, ▌ TikTok filed a lawsuit in the United States, titanium media App May 8, local time on May 7, TikTok filed a lawsuit with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, challenging a law that attempts to ban the social software nationwide. U.S. president Joe Biden signed a bill on TikTok that requires Chinese technology companies to spin off TikTok within the next nine months, or the app will be banned in the United States.
▌ SAIC responded to the EU countervailing investigation: refusing to provide commercially sensitive information, Shell Financial News, SAIC Group said on May 7: “We fully cooperate with the European Commission and have provided all necessary information related to countervailing investigations in accordance with WTO and EU rules.
It is worth pointing out that commercially sensitive information such as the formula of the battery should not fall into this category.
” Recently, the European Commission issued a “warning” to the three Chinese electric car manufacturers sampled in the survey, saying they did not provide “sufficient” information on subsidies, operations and supply chains, according to recent media reports.
it could lead to a “more adverse ruling” by the EU against these companies.
The commission said that without such information, the commission would have to adopt Facts Available rules, which would eventually lead to higher tariffs on imports.
In April, ▌ estimated wholesale sales of 800000 new energy passenger vehicles, with an estimated monthly penetration rate of 45%.
On May 7th, the Federation of passengers announced that the estimated wholesale sales of new energy passenger vehicles nationwide in April 2024 were 800000, up 33% from the same period last year and down 2% from the previous month.
On April 25, the Federation of passengers estimated that the total number of passenger car retail sales in China in April was 1.
6 million, of which 720000 were new energy retail sales, and the new energy penetration rate was 45% in April.
According to preliminary data, wholesale sales of more than 10, 000 new energy vehicles in April are expected to be 680000, accounting for 85% of the total new energy passenger vehicle sales in April, the federation said Recently, some enterprises have actively taken measures to reduce the prices of new cars, and the increase brought about by the price downturn has been reflected, and the new energy penetration rate reached 50% in the first half of April, the Federation said.
With the smooth opening of the Beijing Auto Show in late April, consumers’ attention to the car market has increased sharply, coupled with the introduction of the national car trade-in policy at the end of the month, it is expected to stimulate the early wait-and-see car demand to accelerate the release, and the overall car market is expected to improve in May as a whole.
▌ domestic, ▌, week 18, 2024, ideal car weekly sales 5300, May 7, ideal car rerelease weekly sales data, the 18th week of 2024, ideal car weekly sales of 5300.
During the first sales period from April 18 to May 5, the cumulative order for the new ideal L6 has exceeded 41000 units.
According to ideal’s previous expectations, the ideal L6 goal is to challenge monthly sales of 30,000 vehicles.
In second place is the question line, with weekly sales of 4800 vehicles, followed by extreme krypton, Ultimate, Deep Blue and Zero.
It is reported that before May Day, the ideal release of April sales data, delivery of 25787 vehicles, a slight increase of 0.
4% over the same period last year, the cumulative delivery volume from January to April was 106187.
Ideal said it had delivered a cumulative total of 739551 vehicles as of April 30, 2024.
, 
, ▌ Weilai: up to April 30, there are a total of 2411 replacement power stations.
On the evening of May 6, Weilai released a report on power-up in April.
According to the report, 14 new layout exchange power stations were added in April, with a total of 2411, achieving 80.
15% of the electricity area housing coverage, ensuring that there is at least one exchange station within 3 kilometers of the user’s place of residence or work.
According to ▌, BYD, Ningde Times and China Chuangxin Airlines will become the brand battery supplier of Weilai Ledao.
According to the latest news in the market on May 7, BYD is expected to become the power battery supplier of Ledao Automobile, a new brand of Ledao Automobile, and the two sides have reached an agreement.
Ningde Times and China Chuangxin Airlines are also expected to become power battery suppliers for Ledao cars, of which China Chuang Xin Airlines may supply high-capacity battery packs.
Weilai launched a new brand Ledao, which aims to further expand its layout in the smart electric vehicle market.
According to Ledao Motors, Ledao’s models will be equipped with advanced intelligent driving assistance systems and innovative on-board interconnection technology to ensure that users can enjoy an intelligent driving experience even in the entry-level market.
In addition, the new brand models will also use environmentally friendly materials and energy-saving technologies to meet the current pursuit of sustainable development.
According to market news, the Ledao L60, as the first model of the Ledao brand, will offer two options: 60kWh’s lithium iron phosphate battery pack and 90kWh’s ternary lithium battery pack.
▌ Shenzhen self-driving open road mileage of more than 900km, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported that recently, Shenzhen Transportation Bureau officially released the “Shenzhen Intelligent Network vehicle road test and demonstration application of the sixth batch of open road catalogue”, a total of 43 open roads, a total of about 106.01 km. Up to now, the mileage of self-driving open roads in the city has reached 944 kilometers.
It is understood that the sixth batch of open roads in Shenzhen Intelligent Network Joint Automobile Road Test and demonstration Application are all located in Baoan District, involving four areas: Baozhong District, Xin’an District, Convention and Exhibition area, and Shajing District.
▌ Baidu vice president account system changed its name after purchase, whip Niu Shi news, the hottest news in the technology circle on May 7 is that Baidu public relations vice president Zhi Jing opened Douyin account on Douyin to talk about her views in the workplace as a female bully.
In view of its claim that four short videos rose nearly one million fans in five days, enthusiastic readers in the industry left one after another, proving that the popularity was not caused by the original topic, but that the transfer number of the purchase was renamed.
The ▌ 2024 Haopin HT will be the first to carry the city NDA function, according to the Securities Times, recently, at the 2024 Beijing International Auto Show, the GAC Aian Haopin HT2024 model was unveiled.
It is reported that the new car will be the first to carry the urban NDA function, which will be delivered in April and will immediately start internal testing in six cities.
It will open in 41 cities in July and nationwide in September.
The 2024 Hauplatinum HT is equipped with a new generation of solid-state variable focus lidar and Orin-x chips, as well as two forward millimeter wave radars, further enhancing the detection performance of the roof lidar for forward short-range weak sensing.
And Haopin ADiGO PILOT intelligent driving system pioneered the self-learning navigation technology of sustainable OTA, which can perceive the environment accurately in all directions without relying on high-precision maps.
▌ Zhou Hongyi talks about low-altitude economy: there is a danger of being attacked by hackers and needs driver control, according to news from Sina Science and Technology on May 7, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360Group, was originally scheduledToday, he and Zhao Deli, founder and president of Xiaopeng Huitian, live broadcast the test drive of Xiaopeng Huitian Flying car, but because Xiaopeng Huitian’s test flight procedures could not be completed, the flying car that Zhou Hongyi will test drive cannot take off today.
When talking about the safety of low-altitude aircraft, Zhao Deli said bluntly that there is actually a problem with pure unmanned low-altitude aircraft.
“its communication link is easy to become silly if it is interfered with.
” In this regard, Zhou Hongyi expressed great concern: “I am in the field of network security, knowing that ground control may be attacked by hackers, so that if the pilots lack the ability to control themselves, they will be very helpless after being attacked by hackers.
” The demand for ▌-generated AI jobs has soared more than three times, CCTV Finance reported on May 8, with the outbreak of artificial intelligence applications, the recruitment market for generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) is very hot.
According to the data, the demand for jobs related to generative artificial intelligence more than tripled in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year.
Higher salary is an important reason for the popularity of jobs related to generative artificial intelligence.
According to industry insiders, the average annual salary for AIGC-related jobs is more than 400000 yuan, with the top three natural language processing experts, image algorithm engineers and architects all earning more than 500000 yuan a year.
▌ International, ▌ Apple has been revealed not to give up building cars, according to the IT home, the Taiwan media Electronic Times, according to the supply chain news, Apple is in cooperation talks with an emerging US carmaker.
Currently the company most likely to work with Apple is Rivian.
Although Rivian is strapped for cash and faces layoffs, its partnership with Amazon continues, and its orders are rumored to be stable in the second half of 2024.
After Apple re-evaluated its “Project Titan” project, known as Apple Car, and shifted its resources to generative AI (generative AI).
But Apple has spent an average of $1 billion a year on car research and development over the past decade, which means it will not easily give up its electric car project.
Although the growth of demand in the electric car market is slowing, the capital market is in a wait-and-see state, and emerging carmakers are under pressure to lose one for every car sold, some emerging automakers are still starting to get out of trouble.
with relatively stable sales.
The high-end autopilot capabilities that Apple has accumulated over the past decade have not been commercialized.
If you can work with Rivian to apply its software to vehicles already on the road, testing can start at the basic L2 + level in the shortest possible time, and upgrade iterations can be accelerated as the market opens up to L3 or higher self-driving.
▌ BYD Li Ke: should not be blocked from doing business in the United States.
According to Nikkei Asia, Li Ke, CEO of BYD America, said at an event in California that the company, as an electric car manufacturer, unlike TikTok and Huawei, should not be blocked from doing business in the United States.
Li Ke said that geopolitics had a significant impact on YD and the electric car market as a whole, and it was unfair to link a Chinese company to the Chinese government, believing that BYD should be positioned as a global company.
Li Kejie was quoted as saying that due to policy uncertainty and many consumers’ misgivings about electric cars, the company had no plans to sell in the United States, saying that it was a chaotic stage.
The report also mentioned that Li Ke said that mainland suppliers such as BYD still want to be part of the US electric vehicle supply chain.
Even though BYD overtook Tesla in its electric car business last year, it remains a long-term battery supplier to its US competitors.
▌ NHTSA upgraded its investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot accident, asking for more safety data.
Gronghui reported on May 7 that because Tesla’s consumers kept crashing while using its autopilot system, the US Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) asked the company to provide it with more safety data before the July 1 deadline.
Otherwise, the company will have to issue the largest recall ever.
▌ Ningde Times ranked first in global power battery loading for seven years in a row.
According to news released by South Korean research institute SNE Research on May 7, South Korean research institute SNE Research released global power battery statistics.
Ningde Times continued to rank first in global power battery loading in the first quarter of 2024.
Its power battery installed 60.
1GWh increased by 31.
9% year-on-year and market share by 37.
9%, nearly 3 percentage points higher than the same period in 2024.
Ningde era has been at the top of the list of power battery installations in the world for seven consecutive years.
In the first quarter of this year, BYD installed 22.
7 GWh of power batteries, surpassing LG New Energy, which has a capacity of 21.7 GWh. BYD and LG New Energy ranked second and third in the first quarter, respectively.
, ▌ will launch a new model to expand the European market next year, which is expected to sell for less than $30,000.
on May 7, Xilai announced that it will launch a new model at the end of this month, aimed at expanding the mass market.
In addition, the company plans to launch a second small electric car in the European market next year, which is expected to sell for less than $30,000.
Nicolas Vincelot, general manager of Weilai France, revealed at the Sino-French Business Forum in Paris that the company is promoting two new car brands: Onvo and Firefly, Reuters reported.
Both brands are positioned as pure electric vehicles designed to meet the needs of the European market.
Ledao’s first model, the L60, is scheduled to go on sale worldwide by the end of this year.
The Firefly brand, which focuses on developing small electric cars suitable for urban driving, is also expected to sell for less than $30, 000 and is expected to hit the market in 2025.
Vincelot says the main target market for the two brands is Europe.
The sales strategy of Xilai Automobile is also being adjusted.
Vincelot noted that the company is moving from an initial ordering model to a broader distribution model, which includes the sale and rental of vehicles through Internet platforms and showrooms set up in major cities.
▌ Faraday issued a statement: the board of directors is not considering appointing Jia Yueting as co-CEO, interface news, on May 7, Faraday Future (FF) issued a statement saying that Jia Yueting posted a video about the company on social media as an individual rather than a company executive, and any such statement should not be considered to be the work of the company without the company’s approval.
In addition, although the company learned that the video shows that Jia Yueting is considering the possibility of serving as joint CEO of the company if appointed by the company’s board of directors, andIt appreciates the services it provides, but currently the company’s board of directors is not considering appointing him as joint CEO.
Earlier on May 7, Jia Yueting posted a video saying that he would consider working with Matthias (Matthias) as the co-CEO of the company, and would start the commercialization of personal IP to make money to build cars, hoping to make some money as soon as possible, partly to repay debts and partly to save the company, to subsidize the construction of cars, and strive to support the basic operation of FF and give investors and shareholders confidence.
And will often use video to synchronize the progress of the “FF Dream Defense War”.
Recently, many people have been saying that if YT could really control the company, even if it had half the control, becoming a co-CEO,FF would have been successful long ago, and only the founder would put the company’s interests before his own interests, “Jia Yueting said.
▌ Apple develops artificial intelligence chips, and Apple has reportedly been developing its own chips to run artificial intelligence software on servers in data centers.
According to people familiar with the matter, the internal code name of the server chip project is ACDC.
The ACDC project has been going on for several years, and it is not clear when the new chip will be released.
Apple has promised to hold the Global developer Conference in June.
▌ Musk: SpaceX and its Star chain project, “basically do not use artificial intelligence.
” according to US media reports such as Axios News, US entrepreneur Musk said at the Milken Institute global conference held in Los Angeles on the evening of 6th local time that his space exploration technology company (SpaceX) “basically does not use artificial intelligence (AI).
” Musk was held at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles on the evening of 6th local time.
Musk believes that more than 99% of intelligence “eventually” will be “digital” rather than “biological”, but the current version of the AI system cannot meet the needs of SpaceX, the report said.
“I’m going to ask it some questions about the Fermi paradox, rocket engine design, electrochemistry.
So far, AI has performed badly on all these issues.
So there is still a long way to go.
” Musk said at the meeting.
He also said that even SpaceX’s satellite Internet project StarLink, “does not use AI”, “I do not object to using it.
” It’s just that we haven’t seen its use yet.
” “I do think it’s very important that we build AI in a way that benefits humans.
” Musk also said, “AI should not be taught to lie, should not be taught to say things that are not true.
” ▌ OpenAI whistleblower defected to Musk Quantum bit reported on May 7th that the whistleblower who had just been fired by OpenAI had defected to Musk at the speed of light.
The client, Pavel Izmailov (hereinafter referred to as Xiao P), is one of the Ilya allies who worked in the super alignment team led by Ilya.
Half a month ago, Xiao P was fired on suspicion of leaking Q*-related secrets.
It was not clear what he leaked, but there was an uproar at the time.
At that time, now, his Twitter profile has been written with great fanfare: researcher @ xai.
▌ British self-driving company Wayve received 7.
5 billion yuan in financing, Softbank Corp.
, Nvidia, Microsoft, FAP, May 7 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /– British self-driving company Wayve announced on its official website that it has received a $1.
05 billion (about 7.
576 billion yuan) round of investment.
This round of financing is led by Softbank Corp.
Group, followed by new investor Nvidia and existing investor Microsoft.
It is reported that this round of financing will support Wayve’s comprehensive development and launch of the first intelligent product for mass production cars.
With the development of Wayve’s core artificial intelligence model, these products will enable OEMs to efficiently upgrade their cars to a higher level of self-driving, from L2 + assisted driving to L4 self-driving.
According to ▌ news, Nvidia will only launch RTX 5090 this year, while other Blackwell graphics cards will be extended to next year.
According to the news from IT House on May 7, the source Moore’s Law is Dead revealed in the latest video that Nvidia will only launch GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card this year, and then launch Blackwell architecture game graphics card next year.
Sources said that Nvidia only launched RTX 5090 graphics cards this year, mainly due to the following factors: continue to clean up the existing RTX 40 series graphics card inventory, Nvidia will focus on AI GPU, these GPU are based on the same structure, can bring higher profits for the company.
Citing the source, IT House reported that Nvidia’s development strategy can better respond to market demand and optimize its resource allocation and strategic positioning by focusing on the high-margin AI GPU and managing the launch of the new game GPU.
It is reported that GeForce graphics cards based on Blackwell architecture will have five chips: GB202, GB203, GB205, GB206 and GB207, corresponding to 512/384-bit, 256-bit, 192bit, 128-bit and 128-bit.
The new generation of products uses PCIe 5.
0interface, supports DisplayPort 2.
1display output, carries 16Gb (2GB) GDDR7 module, and may also support 24Gb (3GB) module at a speed of 28 Gbps.
▌ Hyundai Motor has stepped up its research and development of self-driving technology, investing nearly $1 billion in Motional.
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group announced an investment of nearly $1 billion in self-driving startup Motional to promote self-driving technology research and development, Zhongguancun online news.
Hyundai said: “the purpose of this capital increase is to gain stable control of Motional, actively lead the research and development of self-driving technology, and keep the core technology in its own hands.
” Motional is a joint venture between Hyundai and Irish-American automotive technology company Aptiv in March 2020.
Hyundai will spend $488 million to raise capital for Motional and an additional $456 million for Aptiv’s 11% stake in Motional.
Upon completion of the investment, Hyundai’s total stake in Motional will reach 66.
8 per cent.
The founder of ▌ American electric car company Fisker sold his mansion for more than the company’s market capitalization, according to IT House.
Henrik Fisk, founder and CEO of American electric car company Fisker, is selling his luxury home in Los Angeles for $35 million (currently about 252 million yuan).
By contrast, its company Fisker Inc.
The current market capitalization is only $26.
8 million, which means his mansion is worth $8 million more than the company he founded.
So far this year, Fisker Inc.
The share price experienced a roller coaster crash and fell for a time.
More than 96% eventually led to the delisting of the company from the New York Stock Exchange.
Currently, the company’s share price is only about 5 cents a share.
Although it is not clear why the Fisks sell luxury homes, their company is in urgent need of cash flow.
Fisker Ocean’s orders have fallen sharply in recent months due to negative reviews and customer complaints, straining the company’s cash flow.
Earlier this month, Fisker Inc.
It even said that if debt relief could not be obtained, it might file for bankruptcy soon.
Electric carmaker Fisker has closed its headquarters in Manhattan, according to people familiar with the matter.
▌ OpenAI launched a special AI recognition tool with a recognition accuracy of 98%.
According to the news of IT House on May 8, OpenAI issued a press release on May 8, announcing the launch of a special AI detection tool, which can identify whether a picture is generated by the DALL E3 model, and the accuracy is as high as 98%.
OpenAI said in a blog post that the main reason for launching the new tool is to help researchers study the authenticity of content, and the company has also announced that it has joined the steering committee of C2PA (Alliance for content sources and authenticity).
C2PA is a widely used digital content authentication standard developed and adopted by many participants, including software companies, camera manufacturers and online platforms, and C2PA can be used to prove that content comes from specific sources.
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