Despite facing skepticism and pressures both internally and externally, Jack Ma underscored that the journey of reform and innovation is often met with resistance rather than applause.
Some employees of Amazon China have received layoff notification emails from headquarters. Amazon stated that due to duplication in job categories, it will be reducing hundreds of positions within specific Sales, Marketing, and SMGS organizations.
On April 8th, Alibaba Cloud announced price reductions in overseas markets, covering core products deployed in 13 global regions and over 500 product specifications. The average price reduction is 23%, with the highest reaching up to 65%.
The high-end electric vehicle brand Zeekr under the Chinese car manufacturer Geely has restarted its IPO in New York to raise up to $500 million, which is lower than the previously set target of over $1 billion.
The CNSA and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation of Thailand jointly signed a MOU on exploring and peacefully using outer space cooperation, as well as a MOU on cooperation in international lunar research stations.
Alibaba Cloud announced that it is comprehensively implementing AI programming internally, using the TONGYI Lingma coding assistant to help programmers write code, read code, debug, and optimize code.
With the entry of Xiaomi SU7 with a starting price of 215,900 yuan, a new round of "price reduction wave" has started in the new energy market, intensifying competition.
Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing stated that on April 18th, the Tech World Lenovo Innovation Technology Conference will be held in Shanghai, and sophisticated AI PC will debut in the Chinese market first.
Redmi brand general manager Thomas responded that there are currently no plans for Redmi cars. The focus is on making Xiaomi cars first, and there will definitely be new car model plans in the future.
Xiaomi EV held a press conference today, and the Xiaomi SU7 was officially launched and delivered, with a starting price of 215,900 yuan. The chairmen of NIO, Li Auto, and XPeng Motors all attended the event.
BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said that the fifth generation DMI hybrid technology will be launched in May this year, with a full tank/full charge range of 2000 kilometers.
Micron has invested over 11 billion yuan in the Chinese market. After expanding its factory in Xi'an, the number of Micron China team members will reach 4,800.