UBTECH landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange;Alibaba Cloud cuts custom projects;In the first 11 months, the total amount of social logistics in the country exceeded 300 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5%.
Finishing丨Zhang Rui
This has happened over the past week
1 UBTECH landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a market value of HK $38 billion
On December 29, UBTECH, the "first share of humanoid robots", landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and on the first day, UBTECH reported 90HK$85 shares, up 095%, with a market capitalization of about HK$38 billion.
UBTECH was founded in 2012 and is one of the earliest companies in China to research humanoid robots. From 2020 to 2022, UBTECH's revenue will be 74 billion yuan, 81.7 billion yuan, 100.8 billion yuan. Revenue for the first half of 2023 was 26.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 79%。In the three years from 2020 to 2022, UBTECH lost 64.3 billion yuan, 76.1 billion yuan and 78.2 billion yuan. In the first half of 2023, it lost 36.7 billion yuan.
2. In the first 11 months, the total amount of social logistics in the country exceeded 300 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5%.
The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing announced the logistics operation data for the first 11 months of this year. The data shows that with the continued recovery of basic fields such as industry and consumption, logistics demand has maintained synchronous expansion, and the development foundation for stable and good logistics operation has been further consolidated. From January to November this year, the total amount of social logistics in the country was 3059 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50%, the growth rate is 01 percentage point. The month of November grew by 67%, up 16 percentage points.
3 Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other eight departments on accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the traditional manufacturing industry
According to the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, eight departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued guidance on accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the traditional manufacturing industry. By 2027, the development level of high-end, intelligent, green and integrated traditional manufacturing industry will be significantly improved, effectively supporting the proportion of manufacturing industry to remain basically stable, and further consolidating and enhancing its position and competitiveness in the global industrial division of labor. The penetration rate of digital R&D and design tools and the numerical control rate of key processes in industrial enterprises exceeded respectively, the industrial energy intensity and carbon dioxide emission intensity continued to decline, the water consumption per 10,000 yuan of industrial added value decreased by about 13% compared with 2023, and the comprehensive utilization rate of bulk industrial solid waste exceeded 57%.
4 Beijing Artificial Intelligence Public Computing Platform (Shangzhuang) was officially released
On December 26th, it was reported that the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Public Computing Platform (Shangzhuang) built and operated by Jingneng Group was officially released, of which the first phase of 500P (FP16 dense) computing power was officially launched from today, in terms of development planning, the computing power platform will be operated with 100% green electricity, and strive to launch the second phase of 1500P public computing power in the first quarter of 2024, and reserve more than 2000P computing power expansion space.
At the same time, Jingneng Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. and Sugon Information Industry Co., Ltd. respectively to reach a strategic partnership and deepen cooperation in green energy, public cloud, and intelligent computing infrastructure.
5 OpenAI is negotiating a new round of funding at a $100 billion valuation
According to people familiar with the matter, representatives of OpenAI and representatives of investors who are willing to participate in the investment have made preliminary exchanges on the valuation amount, terms, and time, but they have not yet been finalized, and there are still variables.
If the valuation is eventually recognized by the capital market, OpenAI will surpass SHEIN to become the third most valuable startup in the world, behind SpaceX and ByteDance. OpenAI did not respond to this message.
6 HUAWEI CLOUD CODEARTS Snap is available for public testing
A few days ago, HUAWEI CLOUD CodeArts Snap started public beta. Based on the two core capabilities of intelligent generation and intelligent Q&A, CodeArts Snap is an intelligent development assistant based on the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu R&D model, covering 8 R&D scenarios, including R&D knowledge Q&A, unit test case generation, interpretation, annotation, translation, debugging, and inspection, to unleash software R&D productivity.
7 Alibaba Cloud readjustment: cut custom projects and hardware integration business
Alibaba Cloud is cutting down its project-based business for customizing industry solutions for government and enterprise customers, and cutting hardware integration business and downsizing related personnel in the IoT (Internet of Things) business line. The proportion of layoffs in some teams of the hybrid cloud division reached 30%. More than 50% of the IoT hardware integration business will be laid off, and the remaining personnel in the department will be dispersed and transferred to other businesses. At the same time, Alibaba Cloud is expanding recruitment in the public cloud business unit and AI department. Alibaba Cloud's official recruitment website is currently recruiting about 500 positions, with more than 1,500 people.
8 The number of Ali 1688 merchants exceeded 1 million
On December 26, it was reported that a number of business indicators before 1688 frequently hit a record high in the 24 years since the company was established. The data shows that the number of users who actively open 1688app has broken through a record high, and the average age of users is 25 years old, and most of them are women. At the same time, the number of 1688 merchants exceeded 1 million, hitting a record highAmong them, 600,000 are source factories, and most of the new businesses are the second and third generations of factories born in the 90s or even 00s.
9 CTO Wang Haifeng: The number of users of Wenxin Yiyan exceeded 100 million
Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer and Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and Application, announced at the 10th W**e Summit Deep Learning Developer Conference, "The number of users of Wenxin Yiyan has exceeded 100 million. As of the end of December 2023, PaddlePaddle has gathered 10.7 million developers and served 2350,000 enterprises and institutions have created 860,000 models based on paddles.
10 Kunlun Wanwei "Tiangong Skyagents" beta version of the whole network test
The beta version of Kunlun Wanwei AI Agents development platform "Tiangong SkyAgents" is officially open for testing, and users can experience it on the Tiangong open platform. According to reports, the "Tiangong SkyAgents" AI Agents development platform is based on Kunlun Wanwei's "Tiangong Model", which has the ability to learn and think independently from perception to decision-making, from decision-making to execution. Users can build their own single or multiple "personal assistants" through natural language, and can modularize different tasks to perform tasks including question presets, specified responses, knowledge base creation and retrieval through operating system modules.
These companies received new financing
1 "Digital" received 100 million yuan in Series D financing
A few days ago, the business intelligence big data technology company "Digital" completed a series D financing of 100 million yuan, which was led by Shenqi Capital (58 industries**), followed by Dao, and Gaohu Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor for this round of financing. Digital is a business intelligence big data technology company in China, invested by well-known institutions such as Ant Group, Bojiang, and SAIF. With 8 years of deep cultivation in the industry, Digital has built a global offline business data assets and leading model technology, and is committed to empowering business decisions in thousands of industries through technological innovation and product innovation. At present, Digital has launched the store opening decision-making platform "Shangshang Staff" for small and medium-sized businesses, the big data intelligent site selection decision-making system "Shangshang Staff Enterprise Edition", and the commercial data query platform "Digital Observation".
2 "New Digital Technology" completed Series B financing
Beijing New Digital Technology, a database cloud platform software manufacturer, has completed the B1 and B2 rounds of financing during the year, which were invested by Bohai Chuangfu and Binfu Capital respectivelyYibai Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor for this round of financing.
Founded in 2014, the current product matrix includes a series of software such as database cloud management platform, database security control, database audit and migration, etc., aiming to build an enterprise-level intelligent full-link database cloud platform system.
3 Corerain received hundreds of millions of yuan in Series C financing
Corerain announced the completion of hundreds of millions of yuan in Series C financing. This round of financing was led by Puluo Capital, followed by CDH Baifu, Lianchuang **, Zhang Keyaokun**, and Zhonglou Financial Holding Group. This round of funds is mainly used to support the R&D and large-scale implementation of the next-generation reconfigurable data flow CAISA AI chip, and build the industrialization ecology of CAISA chips in various vertical industries. Founded in 2017, Corerain is a company that develops high-performance, low-cost, high-computing power AI chips based on reconfigurable data flow technology routes.