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On July 24th, the BYD Song PLUS EV Champion Edition will officially enter the European market. The new car is scheduled to debut during the opening of Munich Station in September. The official name of this car on European market will be "Seal U".
Recently, Jiang Daxin, Microsoft's global partner, vice president, and former chief scientist of Microsoft Asia Research Institute, was reported to have left his previous company and started his own business in the field of large-scale models.
The chip design team ZEKU, under OPPO, has been disbanded for 2 months now. According to several informed sources, more than a dozen management members of ZEKU have recently joined the autonomous driving company Momenta.
Recently, there has been a picture circulating on the internet with the title "China to issue licenses to education and training companies for resuming extracurricular tutoring." On July 20th, the official WeChat account of Chinese Association for Non-Government Education clarified that this information is purely a rumor.
Tencent is strengthening its partnership with global card organizations such as Visa, Discover Global Network (including Diners Club), JCB, and Mastercard. This collaboration aims to enhance the digital payment experience for international users in China.
On July 15th, Sunwoda released a proposal regarding the spin-off of its subsidiary, Sunwoda EVB, for listing on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
On July 18th, it was reported that several employees of Tesla's Gigafactory Shanghai, recently received a significant increase in their performance bonuses for the second quarter of 2023. The bonus amount reached 1.5 times their monthly base salary.
On July 17th, the suspension of operation for the Chinese servers of 7 Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft, has reached 175 days, approaching half a year. Mike Ybarra, President of Blizzard, was also asked about the situation regarding the Chinese servers during a live stream on July 15th.
On July 17th, Ctrip held a press conference in Shanghai and officially launched its vertical large-scale model product "Ctrip Wendao". According to James Liang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Trip.com Group, Ctrip Wendao is the first vertical large-scale model developed by Ctrip itself in the tourism industry, with model parameters exceeding billions.
July 14th news, recently, BYD officially announced that its new mid-to-large-sized hybrid sedan Destroyer 07 has been renamed as Seal DM-i. The new car will be launched in the third quarter with a price range of ¥180,000 to 250,000 ($25,200-$35,000).
On July 13th, BYD plans to establish a battery assembly plant in Hungary with an investment of over ¥200 million (about $28 million). This is BYD's second factory in the country following the electric bus and truck factory in Hungary.
On July 13th, it was reported that several automotive bloggers recently announced that the Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai has produced its one millionth Model Y.
Zhang Hailian, Deputy Chief Designer of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, revealed this morning at the 9th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Summit Forum held in Wuhan that China plans to achieve manned lunar landing for scientific exploration before 2030.
On July 11th, Changan Automobile and Tencent signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Chongqing, China. Building upon their previous collaboration, the two parties will strengthen cooperation in multiple areas such as intelligent cockpit, navigation and maps, autonomous driving, overseas ecosystem, and corporate digital transformation.
Wh battery version (625 kilometers) is priced at ¥426,000 ($59,000). They also announced that a 150kWh battery pack (930 kilometers) will be launched in July.
On the 8th, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers issued a statement on its official website stating that the previous commitment letter's mention of "disrupting market fair competition order with abnormal prices" involving "prices" was expressed improperly. Therefore, this clause has been removed from the commitment letter.
On July 7th, BYD's official Weibo account announced that BYD's Brazilian subsidiary has recently partnered with 99, a Brazilian ride-hailing platform under Didi.
Tesla's Shanghai factory has started laying off employees related to battery assembly. This round of layoffs mainly affects employees in the first phase of battery assembly, with over 50% of them being laid off
On July 6th, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of Baidu. and Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and Applications revealed that as of now, PaddlePaddle has attracted 7.5 million developers.