writing | Chinese Entrepreneur reporter Zhao Dongshan
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People of the week
In the past week, Some big men who have been hiding for a long time suddenly come out to speak ——Some because of past performance, some because of future plans, and others because of current entrepreneurship.
On May 14, Tencent released its financial report for the first quarter of 2024. In the financial report conference call, Ma Huateng once again boasted about the video number, saying that it promoted the growth of gross profit and operating profit.
In the first quarter, Tencent's revenue was 159.501 billion yuan, up 6% year on year, and its net profit (Non IFRS) was 50.265 billion yuan, up 54% year on year. Among them, The expansion of video number and other businesses boosted the overall gross profit performance In the first quarter, the total user time of video number increased by more than 80% year on year.
Unlike Ma Huateng's steady action, Dong Mingzhu revealed many high-profile plans again in the live broadcast on May 14.
Dong Mingzhu said that she would like to carry out a nationwide anchor selection activity. The top ten winners can attend her family dinner, She cooks for everyone herself 。
At the same time, in view of Lei Jun, Zhou Hongyi and other entrepreneurs competing to become online celebrities this year, Dong Mingzhu also responded that standing at the front desk is just to let consumers contact the enterprise when they have problems. Many consumers know their phone numbers and can directly contact themselves to solve problems.
Kaifu Lee, who has been silent for a long time, also stood in front of the stage again because of his AI big model entrepreneurship project.
On May 13, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the founding of OneThing, Lee Kaifu, CEO of OneThing, officially unveiled the Yi Large closed source model with a 100 billion parameter. In addition, OneThing upgraded the previously released Yi-34B and Yi-9B/6B small and medium-sized open source models to Yi-1.5 series.
When talking about the future development direction of OneThing, Li Kaifu pointed out four points: global layout, co construction of models and bases, integration of models and models, and AI first. He mentioned that OneThing also focuses on the development and exploration of social racetracks and productivity applications in overseas markets, and revealed that The revenue of one to C product is expected to reach 100 million yuan.
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Person of the week
pony
On May 14, Tencent released its financial report for the first quarter of 2024, Tencent's share price returned to the 400 Hong Kong dollar mark, hitting a new high in one year. In the financial report conference call, Ma Huateng once again boasted about the video number, saying that it promoted the growth of gross profit and operating profit.
In terms of specific performance, Tencent's revenue in the first quarter was 159.501 billion yuan, up 6% year on year, and its net profit (Non IFRS) was 50.265 billion yuan, up 54% year on year. Among them, Tencent's online advertising business revenue in the first quarter increased by 26% year on year; The game business revenue, accounting for about 30% of Tencent's revenue, was 48.1 billion yuan, down 0.4% year on year, with little fluctuation; The expansion of video number and other businesses boosted the overall gross profit performance, In the first quarter, the total user time of video number increased by more than 80% year on year.
Ma Huateng said in the financial report telephone conference that night: "We continue to cultivate high-quality revenue sources, including WeChat video number and Soyiso advertising, small game platform service fees and video number merchant technology service fees, which has promoted our gross profit and operating profit growth to exceed the income growth."
At Tencent's annual meeting in January this year, Ma Huateng reviewed the development of Tencent's businesses. He said that it is a big problem how WeChat, an old tree, can make new shoots. Ma Huateng also said that, The video number is "Hope of Goose Factory" 。
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Person of the week
Dong Mingzhu
On May 14, Gree Electric Appliance Dong Mingzhu, the chairman of the board, mentioned the plan of "Greehao Anchors" many times when she started broadcasting in a live broadcast room, saying that she wanted to carry out the anchor selection activity nationwide. The top ten winners could attend her family dinner and cook for everyone in person.
Dong Mingzhu also responded to the phenomenon of entrepreneurs becoming online celebrities, saying that Standing at the front desk is just to let consumers contact the enterprise when they have problems Many consumers know her phone number and can directly contact themselves to solve problems.
Dong Mingzhu stressed that although some people think that the trend of entrepreneurs becoming popular online started with her, her original intention was not to become popular online, but to establish direct contact with consumers, so as to ensure that consumers can feel relieved when buying and using products, and find corresponding support when they need to safeguard their rights.
In addition, Dong Mingzhu's response to Rose Air Conditioner again during the live broadcast was complained by netizens. She said that Gree was the first to create the rose air conditioner. Even if people think it is defective, it is the best because no other company has created it. It is a creation.
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Person of the week
Li Kaifu
On May 13, Kai Fu Li, chairman and CEO of Innovation Works, led the incubation of AI Company Zero and Everything, and officially released Yi Large, a closed source model with a parameter scale of 100 billion yuan. This is the first closed source model released by OneThing and the first 100 billion parameter scale model.
In 2023, OneThing was founded and entered the AI field in the open source mode. In November 2023, OneThing launched Yi series of open source models. Only one month later, Yi-34B version model It is the only large model in China included by Nvidia AI Playground (AI Amusement Park, a platform providing pre training models and resources).
In the interview, Li Kaifu said that today's models are evolving very quickly based on ScalingLaw. People are just optimizing the application for GPT-3.5, while GPT-4 has rewritten the capabilities of the application. Therefore, practitioners should constantly predict how the future technology will go, not based on what today's technology can do, but predict six months later How powerful the technology will be a year later.
The domestic big model companies have gathered a large amount of funds in the primary market at present, and the founder's cash out action was reported in the dark side of the month before. In this regard, Li Kaifu said that he would not comment on the specific situation of the company, but he promised investors when he founded OneThing, No cash out within 10 years And the best way to cash out is to "go public soon".
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