Author: Zicheng.
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Tsinghua Dr. Li Yizhou's 199 yuan AI course sold 50 million a year
On February 20, it was reported that a few days ago, a ** of the "two AI giants" in China and the United States spread on the Internet and caused heated discussions. The two people in the picture are Sam Altman of OpenAI and Li Yizhou, a doctor from Tsinghua University who sells AI courses.
It is said that in the past year or so, the trend of selling AI courses on the short** platform has become more and more popular, and Li Yizhou, a self-proclaimed Tsinghua doctor, has launched an AI course of 199 yuan, which has attracted millions of fans on Douyin.
Recently, Li Yizhou advertised in the circle of friends again, and what he wanted to sell was an AI course with an original price of 999 yuan and a current price of 199 yuan. According to Feigua data, Li Yizhou's AI course "Everyone's Artificial Intelligence Lesson" sold about 250,000 sets within a year, with sales of about 50 million.
Interpretation:It turns out that selling water, maps, and shovels to gold diggers makes more money than those who go into the water to pan for gold. Although it may seem a bit out of the way, it is low-cost, low-risk, and rewarding.
So, how much money did Li Yizhou make?
An earlier data shown by a senior MCN entrepreneur shows that in 3 years, Li Yizhou earned 17.5 billion yuan, of which the income of "Everyone's Artificial Intelligence Lesson" is 27.86 million yuan, and the income of "One Boat One Lesson" with a unit price of 2,980 yuan is 14.9 billion yuan.
Whether it is tens of millions or hundreds of millions, Li Yizhou made a lot of money by selling AI courses, this matter is certain, there is nothing to question, how did Li Yizhou do it? In other words, what kind of money does Li Yizhou make?
The first is emotions, most of which are anxiety and a small part are about the future. How can a modern person not know and not know how to use artificial intelligence and large models?
The writer Don Nuo once said, "Commercial sales need passion or desire, not knowledge, so in an era like ours when knowledge is widely available, how to confuse knowledge, make people forget knowledge, and return to the state of primitive desire is the key to winning or losing business." "It's a bit extreme, but that's what it means.
Then there's the character design. Talking about artificial intelligence in the name of Tsinghua University, before speaking, let the target users believe half of it first, plus "founders of many technology companies", and it does have AI-related products (Yizhou Intelligence), customers don't care if you are an API or a shell, it can be used and easy to use, as for the "amber" in the back, "*This kind of member**", or that sentence, customers have the strength to pay.
Then there are feelings. Someone commented under Li Yizhou**, "Since Sora is on fire, you are the only Chinese god in the AI circle who can be on an equal footing with Ultraman", followed by three face-covering expressions. Look at how people reply, "I will continue to work hard", "We need our own big model, thinking that ridicule and singing are either stupid or bad", "Do your own thing and let others say it", ......If you don't say it on the same channel, there will always be someone who will pay for this kind of feeling.
Finally, there is "knowledge", which can also be called talking points. Compared with research, it is much easier to read relevant books, or even search for how to use such "high-cost actions" in large models, and buy a class to watch for a few minutes**. Therefore, there are also such voices: Li Yizhou has contributed to the popularization and introduction of science for domestic low-level users.
The above is Li Yizhou's partial "virtual" part, as well as the "real", that is, a series of products set up "carefully", in front of which are courses, short ** and live broadcast traffic pushed, through the proven and skilled private domain operation skills and processes, to achieve interlocking paid conversion.
Some MCN entrepreneurs summed it up well, Li Yizhou talked about "how you make money", but he has always emphasized that what is delivered is "knowledge" and tools, "it is impossible to guarantee that you can make money".
The gameplay and rules of the short** and live broadcast era,It's all the same.,As for selling AI lessons or something else,It really doesn't matter.,There's always a new species coming out, isn't it?
Li Xiang's 2023 review: sales are not good, 400,000 units are sold to second-hand car dealers, and NOA collapses
On February 20, it was reported that Li Xiang, CEO of Li Auto, reviewed what Li Auto did not do well in 2023: "Review the bad things in 2023.
Sales are not good. 37.60,000 units sold, of which 400,000 were sold to used car dealers. 2. NOA is particularly collapsed. It was only pushed to Li Xiang alone, not all car owners. 3. If you can't do some brands of cars, you can rear-end a large truck at a speed of 180 hours, and you can hit the truck into the orbit of Jupiter, and the driver of the car will be unscathed. That's it. Change when you know your mistakes, and improve in 2024. ”
is called the place where the review is not done well, but every word is ironic, and netizens speculated that "I don't know who is weird in yin and yang", and some netizens said that "yin and yang are old traditions".
Interpretation:Many people believe that Li Xiang is asking the world with "yin and yang weirdness", because the three key points mentioned by Li Xiang are the key points of sales, NOA, and safety are the key propaganda content of the current questioning world.
In January this year, in the monthly sales list of new car-making forces, Wenjie surpassed the ideal for the first time and became the first. This also makes Li Xiang's previous view that "Huawei is the ideal rival" become a reality again.
Yu Chengdong bluntly said on Weibo: "Our estimation of the popularity of smart cars is not conservative enough, and Yu Dazui has become Yu Xiaozui." The joy was palpable.
In June 2023, Li Xiang recalled on Weibo, "In the third quarter of 2022, the release and ** of the M7 directly disabled the ideal one, we have never encountered such a strong opponent, and we have no power to fight back for a long time." He said that Huawei's super ability directly caused the sales of Ideal One to collapse and stop production ahead of schedule, and it lost more than one billion yuan in one quarter. Li Xiang also said that at the Yanqi Lake Strategy Meeting at the end of September 2022, an important consensus was reached to comprehensively learn from Huawei and the most advanced enterprises.
However, just a few months after this Weibo, what Li wanted to worry about happened again. It's not just that the sales of the new M7 have put pressure on Ideal, in December 2023, the M9 will be officially released, and the product line of Ideal Auto will usher in another opponent.
In December 2023, an Ideal L7 was involved in a serious traffic accident in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, rear-ending a large truck on a highway, resulting in the death of the driver and one passenger of the car, and the injury of another passenger. Yu Chengdong specially demonstrated the crash test of the M9 being squeezed by a large truck at the subsequent Wenjie M9 press conference, saying that the A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar, and D-pillar were not deformed. This is considered by the outside world to be a safety accident that clearly connotates the ideal car.
When the "AEB dispute" broke out between Huawei and Xiaopeng, Li Xiang bluntly said, "If you don't quarrel with Huawei, you really can't quarrel"; At the third quarter of 2023 financial report** meeting, Li Xiang also mentioned that in the face of Huawei, Li Auto's management has a unified understanding: 80% is learning, 20% is respect, and zero complaints. "As a start-up, we are still very admired and excited to meet such a model who has made nearly one trillion dollars of revenue when we enter the scale of 100 billion yuan in revenue, which is our true mentality. ”
But now, in the face of the pressing of the question world, Li Xiang seems to be a little anxious. He mentioned on Weibo that "you can't do some brands of cars, you can rear-end a large truck at a speed of 180 mph, you can crash the truck into the orbit of Jupiter, and the driver of the car is unscathed", which is considered to be a sarcasm.
As product lines overlap more and more, an all-out war between the two sides is on the verge of breaking out.
In 2023 37On the basis of sales of 60,000 units, Li Xiang has set a target of 800,000 units for 2024, which is not unambitious. Under the attack of the Wenjie, can Li Xiang still get his wish?
to character point of view
Li Nan, a former executive of Meizu: OPPO is cutting off its own financial path to make AI mobile phones
Li Nan, a former Meizu executive, posted an article about OPPO's AI mobile phones, saying: "Why does OPPO talk about AI, why does it never mention that AI mobile phones will actually weaken the activity of the APP ecosystem and what should I do?" Taking money from others is tantamount to killing parents. What's more, you are cutting off the financial path of your own profit department. In this case, it's up to you to guess how far the API can be open to LLMs. ”
Musk said that the first brain-computer interface human subject or **, thinking can control the mouse
On February 20, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed at a Spaces live event on the social ** platform X that the first human subject of Neuralink "appears to be completely ** and has no adverse reactions as we know of them." Subjects only need to think to move the mouse around the computer screen."
Musk also said that Neuralink is now trying to get subjects to click as many mouse buttons as possible. The subject had undergone a brain-computer interface chip implant more than 20 days earlier.
Zhou Hongyi said that SORA works like a human dream
On February 20th, Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360, released ** to share his insights on Open AI's latest Wensheng ** large model SORA, he wrote: "SORA works like a human dream, and the future AGI is more than computing power and understanding of the world." ”
*, he said: "When we use traditional computer, graphics, and film and television industry special effects methods to reproduce some images, we like to model 3D pieces, build lighting, make particle models, and then render them frame by frame. This method is actually very inefficient and very expensive. It's a simulation of the world in the most stupid way. But Sora's method is very much like human dreaming - we dream of all kinds of strange things, and dreams are based on what we see with our eyes in normal life, and this accumulated experience does not require 3D modeling and rendering frame by frame. ”
He also compared the recent SORA bugs that people have been paying attention to to in the world to hallucinations that people also produce when dreaming, and other situations that violate the laws of reality.
Musk said that it is very difficult for Tesla to reach 10 times the production, but it is not impossible
On February 20, Musk said that it is very difficult for Tesla to reach 10 times the current production, but this goal is not impossible to achieve. Musk's follower account "teslaconomics" tweeted: "Tesla's goal of producing 10 million to 20 million cars a year is not a question of if, but a question of when", to which Musk responded: "It will be a very difficult process to achieve 10 times the production." It can be done, but the workload is huge. ”
to Data does the talking
Huawei won the first place in China's folding screen mobile phone shipments in 2023, with a share of 374%
Market research agency IDC recently released a report that the shipment volume of the folding screen mobile phone market in the Chinese market in 2023 will be about 70070,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 1145%。Huawei firmly occupies the first position in the domestic folding screen market in 2023, with a market share of 374%。OPPO gets 183% market share, ranking second, of which in the vertical fold product market with 363% market share ranks first. Honor will make efforts in the folding screen mobile phone market in the second half of 2023, and will win the third place with a number of new folding products such as Magic V2, with the fastest growth rate. Samsung accounts for more than half of the global foldable phone market, but still has an 11% market share in the highly competitive Chinese market, ranking fourth. Vivo followed, in fifth place.
Interpretation:In fact, as a manufacturer that entered the folding track earlier, Huawei really has nothing to find fault with in terms of technology. In terms of domestic folding phone shipments, Huawei will be the first in 2021 and 2022.
As people's acceptance of folding screen phones is getting higher and higher, the market competition is becoming more and more fierce.
Data shows that the share of folding screen smartphones in the smartphone market continues to expand, and from 2019 to 2025, the compound annual growth rate of global folding screen smartphone shipments will reach 114%. Among them, Chinese smartphone manufacturers have played an important role in driving the growth of the folding screen market. With a mature ** chain and software ecosystem, as well as a constantly updated product lineup, China has jumped to become the world's largest folding screen smartphone market, accounting for 26% of the global market in 2022.
Counterpoint expects that in the future, Chinese smartphone brands will continue to lead the domestic foldable phone market and further gain more market share through overseas expansion.
Previously, market research agency Counterpoint Research released a report on Chinese mainland consumers' views on folding screen mobile phones.
The agency consulted Chinese mobile phone consumers with a value of more than US$400 (currently about 2,864 yuan), and 64% of the respondents said that they would consider buying a folding screen phone for the next phone change, of which 20% said that they would use a folding screen phone as a main machine, and another 44% would consider buying a regular phone and a folding screen phone at the same time.
The report also shows that Android users are more interested in folding screen phones than iOS users. However, 23% of respondents said that the biggest pain point of the current folding screen mobile phone is durability, and once it is damaged, the repair cost is very high.
As the sales of the folding phone market continue to grow, it is reported that Apple plans to expand the folding screen product line around 2027, and Samsung and LG have established a new independent division to develop Apple's foldable product project. It is unclear the positioning of this folding screen product, and some industry insiders speculate that it may replace the iPad mini product line, and may also join the iPhone product line.
In summary, with the increasing improvement of related technologies and the continuous decline of products, consumers' acceptance of folding screen mobile phones is getting higher and higher. And Apple will not enter the folding screen mobile phone market in the short term, so the development of folding screen mobile phones has become an important layout for domestic brands to build differentiated products with Apple and narrow the gap with Apple's high-end market share.
Company movements
ByteDance refutes rumors and launches a Chinese version of sora: it cannot be landed as a perfect product at present
On February 20, it was reported that before SORA detonated the Wensheng ** track, the domestic ByteDance also launched a subversive ** model - Boximator. with gen-2, pink10 and other models are different in that boximator can accurately control the actions of characters or objects in the generated ** through text.
In this regard, ByteDance responded that boximator is a research project on technical methods to control the movement of objects in the field of generation, and it cannot be implemented as a perfect product at present, and there is still a big gap between the leading foreign generation models in terms of picture quality, fidelity, and duration.
Xiaomi Auto was exposed to layoffs
Recently, according to Xiaomi's internal employees, Xiaomi Auto will carry out large-scale layoffs at the end of February, that is, on February 29. There is no room for negotiation in this layoff, only notice, and the standard of compensation is N+1. Some industry insiders commented that Xiaomi's move has the meaning of "unloading the mill and killing the donkey".
Li Auto was rated as one of the Hurun Global 500 companies, with a valuation of 311 billion yuan
Recently, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2023 Hurun Global 500" (2023 Hurun Global 500), which ranks the world's top 500 non-state-owned enterprises according to their market capitalization or valuation. A total of 33 Chinese companies made the list, among which Li Auto made it to the Hurun Global 500 for the first time with a valuation of 311 billion yuan, and became the youngest start-up with OpenAI and Pinduoduo, all of which were founded in 2015.
TikTok responds to the launch of the EU investigation: the protection of young people has been introduced
On February 20, it was reported that the European Commission announced on the 19th that it had officially launched an investigation into TikTok. It is also reported that TikTok said that it has taken the lead in introducing features and settings to protect teens, and children under the age of 13 are not allowed to use the platform.
One spokesperson said it was something the industry was grappling with. "We will continue to work with experts and industry to ensure the safety of teens on TikTok and look forward to the opportunity now to explain this work in detail to the committee," the spokesperson said. ”
**Customer service responds to open WeChat payment: it will be fully covered in the future
On February 20, it was reported that a number of netizens found that some ** orders can be directly jumped to WeChat payment for payment. **According to the customer service, WeChat Pay is currently only gradually open to some users, and it can only be selected when purchasing some goods. ** It will be covered gradually and "not too long".
Previously, ** had launched "WeChat scan code payment", which needs to be saved and then scanned to complete the payment.
KFC fully charges packaging fees
On February 20, KFC Home Delivery announced that the official price of the delivery fee was lowered from 9 yuan to 6 yuan, but a packaging service fee will be charged as appropriate. As previously reported, KFC has piloted packaging fees in individual cities.
KFC's official customer service said that the thermal insulation bags for delivery have been upgraded, and special packaging services are provided, and packaging service fees will be charged according to the meals ordered. For specific charging standards, please refer to the menu announcement. The packaging service fee for each order is capped at 9 yuan (excluding delivery fees).
Dongfang Selection responded to being bombarded by Wang Hai for using excessive preservatives: is collecting information to defend rights
From the 18th to the 20th, Wang Hai, a well-known anti-counterfeiter, posted 3 Weibo posts in 3 days, saying that the South American white shrimp sold by Dongfang Selection concealed the addition and excessive use of preservatives, and was suspected of defrauding consumers. Regarding the "bombardment" by Wang Hai, the relevant person in charge of Oriental Selection told reporters on the 20th, "There is no official response for the time being, but there is a test report on the product details page of our official store, so you can pay attention to it." As for the inspection situation, "the response of the customer service shall prevail".
Dongfang Selection's customer service told reporters, "We also attach great importance to food safety, and the prawns selected by Dongfang will be tested every month, and the products have been tested by customs, please feel free to buy." If it does not meet the standards, the customs will not pass, so please feel free to eat. The customer service also said that at present, (Oriental Selection) is collecting relevant information to protect rights. In addition, the product test report provided by the customer service to the reporter shows that the third page of the report shows that the product has sulfur dioxide residue, and the residue is 00220 grams, which was judged to meet the standard on the report.
Fat Donglai responded that he was not satisfied with the movie and could refund half of it: there is indeed such a policy
News on February 20, recently, some netizens posted on social ** that they found a bulletin board in Fat Donglai Cinema (Angel City Store) in Xuchang, Henan, which wrote that if you are not satisfied with the film, you can go to the ticket office within 20 minutes after watching it to refund 50%, and explain that the other 50% will be handed over to the theater, so you can't get a full refund.
The announcement sparked heated discussions among netizens, many people praised Fat Donglai Studios, and some netizens were worried that there would be malicious refunds after watching the movie. This morning, the staff of Xuchang Fat Donglai Cinema (Angel City Store) said that there is indeed such a policy, which has been implemented for a long time, but there are not many refunds after watching the movie.
The 1.3 billion shares held by Evergrande Real Estate were frozen
Tianyancha shows that recently, Evergrande Real Estate Group has added a new equity freezing information, and the amount of frozen equity is 130.8 billion yuan, the enterprise whose equity is enforced is Evergrande Real Estate Group Wuhan ***, the freezing period is from February 19, 2024 to February 18, 2027, and the enforcement court is Yichang Intermediate People's Court.
The risk information shows that Evergrande Real Estate Group has hundreds of equity freezing information, and the equity of many companies held by Evergrande Real Estate Group has been frozen. The company also has more than 490 pieces of information on persons subject to enforcement, with a total amount of more than 49.8 billion yuan, as well as a number of consumption restriction orders, dishonest judgment debtors (Lao Lai) and final case information.
Chip experts explain in detail the groq chip that swipes the screen: it cannot replace Nvidia at present
Recently, a company named Groq swiped the screen in the AI circle to benchmark against NVIDIA. Matt Shumer, CEO and co-founder of email startup Otherside AI, experienced firsthand the power of Groq during the demo. He praised GroQ for being lightning fast and capable of generating factual and quoted answers to hundreds of words in less than a second. What's even more surprising is that it spends more than 3 to 4 hours searching for information, while the time to generate answers is as short as a fraction of a second.
However, after the shock, many industry bigwigs settled their accounts and found that the price of this fast may be a bit high, and it cannot replace Nvidia at present. Jia Yangqing did the math on Twitter, because the GroQ has a small memory capacity (230MB), and when running the LLAMA-2 70B model, it would require 305 Groq cards, while with the H100 only needs 8 cards. From the current point of view, this means that at the same throughput, the hardware cost of the Groq is 40 times that of the H100, and the energy cost is 10 times that of the H100.
Messi's endorsement liquor has been removed from the shelves
On February 20, it was reported that Messi responded to the Hong Kong exhibition match for the third time, which once again aroused concern and heated discussions. In mid-January, Chishuihe Liquor officially announced that Messi's signature blessing liquor would be sold online, but the corresponding stores could not be retrieved on the relevant e-commerce platforms. According to the previous browsing record query, all the products of the store, including Messi's signature blessing, have been removed from the shelves.
The customer service said that "the store's products are currently in the process of adjustment and optimization, and the shelf time is mainly based on specific announcements." "But avoid talking about Messi.
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