In an internal speech, Baidu CEO Robin Li expressed his views on the industry's hot topics such as the choice between open source and closed source for LMs, and whether AI entrepreneurs should focus on models or applications.
Recently, AutoNavi, a digital map and navigation service provider backed by Alibaba, quietly launched taxi services in Hong Kong, including instant car booking and airport transfer services.
Ant Group's self-developed intelligent R＆D platform CodeFuse has launched a new feature, supporting developers to generate code with one click based on product design drawings.
On April 9th, XPeng Motors announced that nearly a thousand XPeng G9 vehicles have been shipped to Germany. This is the largest overseas shipment in XPeng Motors' history.
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.
