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# 2024.5.24
Today's key points
PostgreSQL 17 released its first beta version. The main changes include improving query and operation performance, enhancing partitions and distributed workloads, improving the developer experience, and adding security features.
Microsoft announce VBScript will be deprecated from the second half of 2024 to become a Features on Demand (FOD) function until it is completely deleted.
VBScript, namely Visual Basic Scripting Edition, is a lightweight scripting language first launched by Microsoft in 1996. The language has been provided as a system component in the Windows operating system, and has been widely used to automate tasks and control applications on Windows based systems. It is usually embedded in HTML pages to add dynamic interactivity and functionality to web pages, and is often used in conjunction with Microsoft technologies such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and Windows Script Host (WSH).
On demand function is an optional function in Windows operating system, such as NET Framework（. NetFx3), Hyper-V and Windows Subsystem for Linux. These functions are not installed by default, but can be added at any time when necessary.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now officially open for "upgrade". If you use Ubuntu 23.10, you will receive an upgrade prompt informing you of the new version.
However, if you are using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, you need to wait until August to see the upgrade prompt. This is because the upgrade from Ubuntu LTS to LTS is usually enabled only after the first point version of the new LTS series is released.
Observation today
Social observation
Wang Xiaochuan's bullet in the search business targeted Li Yanhong in the era of big model.
On May 22, Baichuan Intelligent released the latest generation of base model Baichuan 4, and launched the first AI assistant "Baixiaoying". This enabled Wang Xiaochuan to officially enter the product verification stage with the commercialization concept of "two wheel drive", the super model and super application that Wang Xiaochuan advocated.
In fact, after Wang Xiaochuan turned his entrepreneurial direction to the big model track, he has fired several shots at Baidu and Robin Li. The "two wheel drive" mode is also blocked in Robin Li's trajectory.
- Tang Chen
What we are (relatively) familiar with now is Python or CUDA. In addition to these two languages, there are also two languages worth our attention ↓
1. Bend: Compile modern high-level language functions into native multithreading on Apple Silicon or NVIDIA GPU. Support complex constructions, such as lambdas with complete closures, unrestricted recursion and branching, folds, ADTs, etc. Bend is compiled as HVM2, which is a thread safe runtime implemented by Rust.
All open source:
- github.com/HigherOrderCO/hvm
- github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend
2. Mojo: a CUDA style Python language, executed at C speed. Mojo is conceptually inferior to Bend, allowing you to better control the parallel execution mode. It is especially suitable for manually writing modern neural network acceleration code.
- modular.com/max/mojo
-Llama2 in a Mojo source file:
github.com/tairov/llama2.mojo/blob/master/llama2.mojo
- Huang Jian
Today, we are going to look at NeeView, a free and open source image viewing software with more functions and no advertisements. It is said that NeeView is an image viewing software. In fact, it is a bit one-sided, because it can also automatically read the files in the compressed package, preview PDF documents and MP4 video files, play slides, and so on.
-WeChat Kernel shelling
So rebellious, so innovative, so legendary. Many of Jobs' views were held by Xiao Dong as the standard, and he especially loved that sentence, "The only way to achieve great things is to love your career. If you haven't found a career that you love, keep looking, and don't give up. Follow your heart, you will find it one day."
Fourteen year old Dong wants to follow in the footsteps of Jobs. He wants to create a great product to change the world.
- The life of coders
The choice of AI development path is of great importance to China, which is related to the sustainability of development and the final international competition pattern. At present, the use cost of artificial intelligence is very high. Microsoft Copilot suite has to pay a monthly use fee of $10. ChatGPT consumes 500000 kilowatt hours of electricity every day. The price of Nvidia B200 chip is up to more than $30000. In general, China should develop affordable, secure and credible AI technology, eliminate the information poor in China, and benefit the "Belt and Road" countries; Empowering all walks of life at a low threshold enables China's advantageous industries to remain competitive and allows relatively backward industries to significantly narrow the gap.
- WeChat Zhang Beihai playing machine learning
At the scene of the 2014 Oculus intellectual property dispute trial, Zuckerberg, who had a straight face all the time in the dock, suddenly began to make a passionate speech in the eyes of everyone in disbelief:
"A few months ago, my daughter Max took her first step. I recorded the whole scene in virtual reality, so that I can send it to my parents and share it with the world. People can experience it personally, just like in our living room."
It was the first time that the prototype of the concept of the meta universe came out, and Zuckerberg firmly believed that this would be the "next generation Internet" at the beginning.
However, in the eyes of Wall Street, it is extremely unwise to adhere to the "long-term principle" in the uncertain track of technological innovation. After all, capital has always been "no rabbit, no hawk".
For example, in this round, there is a definite signal landing, and a five fold reversal occurs; However, once there is an uncertain sign, we should immediately disperse the birds and beasts - just after Zuckerberg's words "spare no effort to build Meta into a leading global AI company" fell, the market value of Meta lost 200 billion dollars.
Musk fans could not help sighing: "Compared with 'Pie Master' Musk, Zuckerberg's' storytelling 'ability needs to be strengthened."
- WeChat Outside and inside
- WeChat Dataape
Media observation
As a serial entrepreneur, Zhang Wen believes that the first thing to avoid when starting a business in the AI field is to start a business with a general open source model. "When a new generation technology, such as GPT-5, is released, many enterprises may be cleared of the industry advantages that they have worked hard to polish under the platform scenario."
- Surging news
The once bustling Texas poker game in China's investment circle suddenly fell silent.
"Anyway, our circle doesn't play cards very well." Zhu Xiaohu, the managing partner of Jinsha River Venture Capital, said that his party with other investors had changed from Dadepo to wine tasting, to talk about new views on the industry and projects, as well as about what stocks in the secondary market are better.
In reality, the card game is deserted, but the shrewd and experienced players in these games extend their hands to the other end. They played a silent card in China's big model industry.
- Tencent News
The "investor" in the game industry also wants to be far ahead. Is it possible to become "Huawei" in the game industry?
After the double growth of revenue and net profit in 2023, Kunlun Wanwei followed closely with the Q1 quarterly report of 2024 in which both revenue and net profit declined, and its net profit turned from profit to loss.
But there are also advantages.
On May 7, Kunlun Wanwei said on the interactive platform that the company has now built an autonomous and controllable computing cluster. He said that the company's existing computing power is expected to meet the computing power needs of large models other than video AIGC in the next 1-2 years.
On April 17, 2024, Kunlun Wanwei officially iterated the model of Tiangong University to version 3.0. "Tiangong 3.0" adopts a 400 billion parameter MoE architecture, which is one of the open source MoE models with the largest parameters and the strongest performance in the world.
-Phoenix News
IBM held the "AI for Business Forum" in Beijing to discuss how to apply generative AI to enterprise innovation and practice with customers, partners, ecological alliances and other industry participants. At the meeting, the China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance and IBM jointly released the "Reliable Enterprise Generated AI White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper"), which aims to provide reference for Chinese enterprises and help them build open, credible and business targeted enterprise AI applications and models based on their own business needs and data, so as to improve productivity and promote innovation, Seize the opportunities brought by generative AI and become a value creator with AI leading edge.
-Firewood cutting net
"The biggest difference between Chinese AI and the West lies in applications." Robin Li, Baidu's founder, chairman and CEO, said in a conversation with Maurice Levy, chairman of the board of supervisors of Publicis Group, "China has hundreds of basic models, but people are increasingly discussing what is a super application in the AI era. Applications have driven the rapid development of Chinese AI."
During the conversation, Robin Li also mentioned the positioning of Baidu's basic model, "Our main market is in China, so we must do better in Chinese than any model in the world. Now, the Chinese ability of Wenxin Model 4.0 has exceeded GPT-4."
-BT Finance
I Ignoring AGI risk, super alignment is broken
II Track GPU and revoke GPU license at any time
Ⅲ Sign to force employees to give up their equity and lose memory after dressing up
Ⅳ Cooperate with News Corp, and there will also be advertisements in ChatGPT
Ⅴ Oppose open source together with Microsoft
Ⅵ Disclosure of privacy, making humans excessively dependent on AI
Ⅶ Technology is open to the military
-New Zhiyuan
Recommended today
Open source project
https://github.com/wader/fq
Fq is a Tools and parsers for checking binary data.
A daily blog
This article collates from the 73rd issue of Meituan Technology Salon, Architecture Evolution and Practice Based on Domain Driven Design (DDD). It mainly introduces the core concepts and common design ideas of DDD, and introduces the evolution process of the public comment trading system in combination with DDD. Finally, it makes some summary and reflection. I hope these contents can be helpful or enlightening to everyone.
Event comments
At 3:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, Microsoft Bing crashed. As a result, Bing Search, Bing API and many services that depend on the API are affected, including ChatGPT, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and other platform search services.
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The outage highlighted the high interdependence between modern Internet services. When a core service (such as Bing Search) has a problem, multiple services that rely on its API will also be affected, leading to a chain reaction. This event reminds all enterprises that rely on cloud services and APIs to have a sound business continuity plan and disaster recovery strategy to minimize the impact of service interruption.
As a world-famous technology service provider, Microsoft Bing's downtime will affect its brand image and market share. Users and enterprises may reassess the risks of using a single service provider. This outage is a test of Microsoft's technology infrastructure, and also reminds other service providers that they need to constantly invest in and update their technology infrastructure to ensure the stability and reliability of services.
This event may prompt the industry to further explore how to improve the stability and redundancy of cloud services, and how to consider the risk of single point of failure when designing the system.
In general, the global downtime of Microsoft Bing is an important warning. It reminds all online service providers and service users that they need to pay enough attention to the stability, reliability and business continuity of services. At the same time, it is also an opportunity to promote the industry to improve service quality and user trust.
According to Alibaba's financial report, in fiscal year 2024, the company invested a total of about 800 million dollars in artificial intelligence start-ups Moonshot AI (IT home notes: about 5.9 billion yuan at present), and purchased about 36% of the equity, which is the preferred stock investment of Moonshot AI.
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Alibaba's investment in the dark side of the moon shows its confidence and commitment in the field of artificial intelligence. This shows that even in the period of economic fluctuations, technology giants are still optimistic and willing to invest in AI companies with long-term growth potential. This investment may not only be financial, but also involve strategic cooperation. As an e-commerce giant, Alibaba's cooperation with AI may bring new business models and service innovations.
Through this scale of investment, Alibaba may be strengthening its competitive position in the AI field, especially in the competition with other technology giants. Investment may be accompanied by the integration of technology and resources. Alibaba can use the AI technology of the dark side of the month to improve its services and products. At the same time, the dark side of the month may also obtain Alibaba's huge data resources and market channels.
This investment case may have a positive impact on other start-ups and encourage them to seek cooperation with large technology companies to obtain funds, resources and market support. This investment may be a sign of the continued growth and expansion of the AI industry, reflecting investors' optimistic expectations for the future development of AI technology.
On May 22, 2024 local time, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives passed a bill restricting the export of AI models by an overwhelming majority (43 votes in favor and 3 votes against) - the Strengthening National Frameworks for Overseas Critical Exports Act/HR 8315 (hereinafter referred to as the ENFORCE Act), It aims to expand the power of the US government to supervise the export of artificial intelligence systems.
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The passing of the ENFORCE Act may have a far-reaching impact on the global AI field. Limiting the export of AI models, especially for China and other countries, may change the development and cooperation pattern of global AI technology. The bill may restrict the cooperation between the United States and other countries in the AI field, and affect transnational research projects and international academic exchanges.
Although the bill aims to protect national security, it may also affect American AI enterprises and limit their international market expansion and business opportunities. In the long run, this bill may lead to the reorganization of the global supply chain, and enterprises may need to find alternative partners and technology sources.
Limiting the international flow of technology may have a negative impact on global innovation, because innovation often requires cooperation and exchange between different countries and regions. The adoption and implementation of such laws may exacerbate international tensions, especially in the context of increasingly fierce international competition in the field of technology.
In general, the adoption of the ENFORCE Act is a protective measure taken by the United States in the AI field, which aims to maintain national security and global technological competitiveness. However, this bill may also have a broad impact on international cooperation, global supply chain, technology transfer and innovation, and its final effect and scope of impact still need further observation.
Voice of Open Source
Media opinion
The price reduction trend of large models is an ecological battle, but in the long run, the more important thing is the ability of large models and the integration and development of AI applications.
- Yicai
Among the three financing deals, the one that makes the valuation of the dark side of the month rocket is the financing of US $1 billion led by Ali in February 2024. After the completion of this financing, the valuation of the dark side of the month soared from $300 million to $2.5 billion.
Yang Zhilin was linked to Ali by a woman, Zhang Yutong, the former managing partner of Jinshajiang Venture Capital Fund.
- Yema Finance
In the interview, Huang Renxun shared his unique management philosophy. He said that he has 60 direct reports and firmly believes in the principle of "not being easily dismissed". He believes that everyone has the potential and ability to learn, and even proudly mentioned that he learned from a bathroom cleaner and grew up to be a CEO. He laughingly said that he had "tortured people and made them great".
Huang Renxun expressed great confidence in the future of AI. He predicted that AI will develop rapidly in the future, and stressed that Nvidia will vigorously use AI to promote the production and innovation of GPU in the next five years.
- China Entrepreneur Club
From the general financial model to the special financial model, the big model has been seen as a "new quality productivity" that can reshape the financial industry.
In the past year, many domestic banks began to build AI models in the vertical field of the financial industry. By developing financial models, they were able to fully tap the potential of internal financial data resources and provide new momentum for their own development.
The head consumer finance companies also followed closely into the financial model. Zhaolian Finance and Instant Consumption have released their own special financial model applications.
The vertical track of the financial model has been crowded with players.
- Gold dissipating realm
User perspective
- Viewpoint 1: What about JScript?
- Viewpoint 2: Is slmgr.vbs ospp.vbs going to be changed
- Viewpoint 3: There has been an alternative solution for this for a long time. I remember that there are modules of Powershell to replace relevant functions.
- Viewpoint 4: The last sentence is brilliant
- Viewpoint 5: Support
- Viewpoint 1: AI prompt content is only for reference, and careful command line operation
- Viewpoint 2: No problem. If there is a bug in the production server and gpt, just say rm rf/, and you will be invincible. You will feel the sky collapses instantly.
- Viewpoint 3: Is it necessary to integrate gpt? What you need is the key of the API
- Viewpoint 4: Better than warp
- Viewpoint 5: Completely unnecessary cumbersome functions, the terminal needs to be lightweight and fast.
- Viewpoint 6: dare not use, dare not use, just suffered a loss recently, Baidu AI gave the command to delete files 30 days ago, and the resulting command is deleted 30 days later. Then I spent the whole day looking for backup to restore data. At present, ai is not mature enough to do precise work. it is enough to quickly search for information and documents.
- Viewpoint 7: This version gets stuck after upgrading
- Viewpoint 8: It feels good. Does Linux have similar tools that can support openai
- Viewpoint 9: The company does not allow ChatGPT to be used to avoid data leakage to Microsoft.
- Viewpoint: 1: I said how the copilot could not be connected
- Viewpoint 2: I sometimes have problems using bing today
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