1. OpenAI's valuation reached $80 billion.
On February 17, it was reported that OpenAI has completed a transaction, and the valuation of the artificial intelligence company has reached $80 billion, and its valuation has nearly tripled in less than 10 months. (Interface News).
2. Musk commented on OpenAI's first ** generative model: human beings admit defeat in betting.
OpenAI released its first-class generative model, SORA, on Thursday. An X user shared a SARA-generated ** of a woman strolling through the streets of Tokyo, commenting: "OpenAI today announced SORA, which uses a hybrid diffusion and transformer model architecture to generate ** for up to 1 minute. They seem to be 1-2 years ahead of everyone else. Another X user commented: "GG Pixar. Musk responded: "GG humans. (Note: GG is the abbreviation of the term "good games" used in online games, which is mainly used after the end of the game, which can be used by both the winning and losing sides, but now it is mostly issued by the loser, indicating the meaning of admitting gambling and admitting defeat.) (Global Market Broadcast).
The box office of the Spring Festival stalls exceeded 8 billion yuan, and "Hot and Hot" became the box office champion of the Spring Festival stalls.
As of 21 o'clock on February 17, the total box office of the 2024 Spring Festival stalls is 802.3 billion, setting a new box office record for the Spring Festival stalls in Chinese film history, with a total of 16.3 billion, with a total of 393 sessions70 thousand. More than the 2021 Spring Festival stalls (784.3 billion yuan), breaking the box office record of the Spring Festival stalls in Chinese film history. Among them, the movie "Hot and Hot" was released for 8 days, and the total box office broke 271.5 billion, surpassing the film "Man Jianghong", breaking the box office record of the Spring Festival feature film schedule in film history. In addition, the films "Let's Shake the Sun Together", "Huang Pi: The God of Wealth Cat from the Sky", "Mr. Red Carpet", and "Bajie: The Nether of the Canopy" have successively announced their withdrawal from the Spring Festival file. (*Times).
4. The return ticket price of Sanya has dropped to 3,000 yuan.
The capacity of Hainan Islands has gradually increased, and the trend of air tickets** has fallen from a high level after the supply has increased. At around 3 p.m. on February 16, it was found on the official website of China Eastern Airlines that there were still a small number of economy class tickets on sale on China Eastern Airlines' MU8548 Sanya Phoenix-Shanghai Pudong flight on February 16, with a departure time of 21:20-00:20 on February 16, ** being 3,420 yuan. On February 18, Juneyao Airlines ho1128 Sanya Phoenix-Shanghai Hongqiao flight will be open to economy class ticket standby, ** for 3160 yuan. According to the official website of Hainan Airlines, on February 18, the economy class tickets of the Sanya-Changsha flight were sold out, and the business class** was reduced to 6,290 yuan. (Interface News).
5. The cross-regional flow of people in the whole society during the Spring Festival holiday is expected to exceed 2.3 billion.
According to the data from the 2024 comprehensive transportation Spring Festival transportation work class, from February 10 to 17 (the first day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month), the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society is expected to accumulate 231.1 billion passengers. Among them, the railway passenger volume is expected to accumulate 99.59 million person-times; The flow of people on the highway is expected to accumulate 218.4 billion person-times, of which the number of non-commercial passenger cars on expressways and ordinary national and provincial highways is expected to accumulate 199.8 billion passengers, highway commercial passenger traffic is expected to accumulate 18.6 billion passengers; The total number of passengers transported by waterway is expected to be 9.4 million; Civil aviation passenger traffic is expected to accumulate 18.04 million passengers. (CCTV News).
6. Chan Kwok-ki, Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong: We are discussing with the mainland how to increase the number of cities going to Hong Kong for free travel.
According to Radio Television Hong Kong on February 17, Chan Kwok-ki, Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that at present, residents of 49 cities across the country can come to Hong Kong independently, and the Hong Kong government is discussing with the mainland how to increase the number of cities, and is also studying the "one visa and multiple travel" measures. Chan Kwok-ki pointed out that the first batch of cities for individual travel is a first-tier city in the Mainland, but the Mainland is developing rapidly, including in the past.
Second- and third-tier cities are welcome to open up the free entry scheme for residents of the relevant localities. Regarding the implementation of special customs clearance arrangements at some ports during the Lunar New Year period, Chan Kwok-ki said that the overall flow of travel was smooth, with a total of more than 3.9 million arrivals and departures, of which about 750,000 were visitors to Hong Kong and 650,000 were from the Mainland, an increase from 640,000 in 2018 before the epidemic. As to whether the relevant arrangements will be regularized in the future, Chan Kwok-ki said that he would pay attention to the major festivals in the future, especially large-scale events, and cooperate with the Mainland for transportation connections, stressing that it is not possible to cross the border overnight every day, and it is necessary to make precise arrangements according to actual needs, otherwise resources will be wasted. (Interface News).
7. NIO ET7 taxi was launched in Germany, and the operating company enjoyed a 30% discount.
NIO Germany plans to add the NIO ET7 to its taxi business, and recently presented its first model to the public at an industry event in Hamburg. According to the official, when the taxi company buys the ET7 model equipped with a long-range battery and a full set of equipment, as well as battery rental, the taxi company will be able to enjoy a 30% discount. (IT House).
8. Wanda transferred the equity of Hohhot Wanda Plaza.
Tianyancha APP shows that recently, Hohhot Wanda Plaza Investment has undergone industrial and commercial changes, the original wholly-owned shareholder Dalian Wanda Commercial Management Group shares withdrew, and the new Ordos Oriental Road and Bridge Group shares were added as shareholders, and the company's registered capital increased from 50.75 million yuan to about 400 million yuan, an increase of about 68966%, at the same time, Zhang Jing stepped down as the company's legal representative, executive director and manager, and was replaced by Hasbatu. (Tianyan Check).
9. Jinbei *** Holding Company was forcibly held for 500 million.
Tianyancha APP shows that on February 6, Shenyang Jinbei *** Holdings added 2 new information on the person subject to execution, with a total of 5More than 2.7 billion yuan, involving loan disputes and other cases, the parties subject to enforcement in the two cases also include Brilliance Auto (Tieling) special vehicle *** Shenyang Jinbei Vehicle Manufacturing ***, etc., and the enforcement court is Shenyang Intermediate People's Court. Shenyang Jinbei Holding Co., Ltd. was established in July 2002, the legal representative is Wu Xiaoan, with a registered capital of 1.5 billion yuan, and is wholly owned by Shenyang Xingyuan East Auto Parts. According to foreign investment information, the company is a shareholder of BMW Brilliance Automobile and Renault Jinbei Automobile Brilliance. (Tianyan Check).
10. Zuckerberg on the wave of layoffs in tech companies: "Lean soldiers and streamlining administration" is painful but beneficial.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke on Friday on the Morning Brew Daily podcast about his thoughts on the company and the industry's many hot spots. "Many companies are beginning to realize that downsizing may also have benefits, and they are often reluctant to make the decision to lay off employees at first," he said. "Obviously, it was very tough and we parted ways with a lot of people we care about, all of them are very talented. But in a way, becoming leaner actually makes companies more efficient. (IT House).
11. The United States is considering providing more than $10 billion in subsidies to Intel.
According to reports, Biden in the United States is making a request to Intel (INTCo) The company provides more than $10 billion in subsidies for negotiations. Negotiations are ongoing. According to the report, subsidies to Intel may include loans and direct grants. It is reported that the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees the disbursement of funds from the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, has previously announced two smaller grants. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said earlier this month that the U.S. Commerce Department plans to make several allocations over a two-month period from $39 billion in funding to boost semiconductor manufacturing. (surging).
12. Bezos has another 12 million shares of Amazon, with a cumulative cash of more than $6 billion.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought about 12 million more shares of the company on Tuesday and Wednesday, worth about 20., according to a new regulatory filing300 million US dollars, which has been ** three times this month, and the cumulative cash out has exceeded 6 billion US dollars. The event was carried out under a trading plan that went into effect last November, and Bezos could end up with as many as 50 million shares of Amazon. (Global Market Broadcast).
13. The leakage of Fukushima nuclear sewage was caused by forgetting to close the manual valve.
In response to the February 7 nuclear sewage leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, TEPCO announced the results of an investigation into the leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on February 7, saying that the leak was caused by the failure of staff to close the manual valve, according to Japan's Mainichi Shimbun. The duration of the nuclear sewage leak on that day was about 40 minutes, about 1Five tons of nuclear sewage flowed to the outside and seeped into the soil, leaking a total of 6.6 billion becquerels. The report pointed out that at present, about 4,000 people at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are decommissioning the plant every day, and human error continues. In this regard, TEPCO's publicist said, "Since it is a manual operation, it is very difficult to avoid mistakes completely. (Sina News).