Netflix is preparing investors and users for more price hikes in 2024
Get ready to pay more money for Netflix . You had to read down to page six of Netflix’s shareholder letter to find it. But there it was. One dreaded sentence for price-conscious consumers. One big cheer for investors. “As we invest in and improve Netflix, we’ll occasionally ask our members to pay a little extra to reflect those improvements, which in turn helps drive the positive flywheel of additional investment to further improve and grow our service,” the company told investors. Netflix la...
Netflix is preparing investors and users for more price hikes in 2024
Get ready to pay more money for Netflix . You had to read down to page six of Netflix’s shareholder letter to find it. But there it was. One dreaded sentence for price-conscious consumers. One big cheer for investors. “As we invest in and improve Netflix, we’ll occasionally ask our members to pay a little extra to reflect those improvements, which in turn helps drive the positive flywheel of additional investment to further improve and grow our service,” the company told investors. Netflix la...
OpenAI is in danger.
On August 7, another domestic AI startup released its own open-source and free commercially available AI macromodel: XVERSE-13B. The company, called Yuanxiang XVERSE, was founded by Yao Xing, former vice president of Tencent and founder of Tencent AI lab. Since Meta released the open source and free commercial LLaMA 2 series of large models in July, a new wave of "open source" is brewing in the AI large model market. On August 2, Baidu's AI model platform Wenxin Qianfan, announced that i...
OpenAI is in danger.
On August 7, another domestic AI startup released its own open-source and free commercially available AI macromodel: XVERSE-13B. The company, called Yuanxiang XVERSE, was founded by Yao Xing, former vice president of Tencent and founder of Tencent AI lab. Since Meta released the open source and free commercial LLaMA 2 series of large models in July, a new wave of "open source" is brewing in the AI large model market. On August 2, Baidu's AI model platform Wenxin Qianfan, announced that i...
Google RT-2, isn't that the robot's GPT-3 moment?
On July 29, a reporter from the New York Times was at Google Labs and got a first look at Google's latest RT-2 model-driven robot. A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic statues: a lion, a whale, and a dinosaur. The engineer gave the robot the command, "Pick up the extinct animals." The robot whirred for a moment, then its arm extended and its claws fell open. It grabs the dinosaur. It was a flash of intelligence. Until last week," the New York Times ...
Google RT-2, isn't that the robot's GPT-3 moment?
On July 29, a reporter from the New York Times was at Google Labs and got a first look at Google's latest RT-2 model-driven robot. A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic statues: a lion, a whale, and a dinosaur. The engineer gave the robot the command, "Pick up the extinct animals." The robot whirred for a moment, then its arm extended and its claws fell open. It grabs the dinosaur. It was a flash of intelligence. Until last week," the New York Times ...
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, are fighting the cloud war in the era of big models
As cloud spending on Internet enterprise software tightens, slowing growth is becoming a dark cloud over the heads of cloud vendors. ChatGPT has come out of nowhere to break this bottleneck, and AI will reinvent software. Software companies, the customers of cloud vendors, are aggressively embedding AI capabilities from big models into existing workflows to accomplish higher-order automation. With new cloud customers drying up, software companies are no longer going to the cloud for the sake ...
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, are fighting the cloud war in the era of big models
As cloud spending on Internet enterprise software tightens, slowing growth is becoming a dark cloud over the heads of cloud vendors. ChatGPT has come out of nowhere to break this bottleneck, and AI will reinvent software. Software companies, the customers of cloud vendors, are aggressively embedding AI capabilities from big models into existing workflows to accomplish higher-order automation. With new cloud customers drying up, software companies are no longer going to the cloud for the sake ...
Dialogue with Yu Guoming: Liberal Arts Students, How to Find Value in the AIGC Era
In the era of AIGC, a large number of liberal arts jobs, such as text writers, painters, and planners, are at risk of being replaced by AI. At the same time, the "intelligent emergence" of generative AI (meaning that what humans do not teach AI, AI can learn by itself) also makes people anxious about how to manage AI. The True Story Room spoke with Professor Yu Guoming, director of the Academic Committee of the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, and asked him...
Dialogue with Yu Guoming: Liberal Arts Students, How to Find Value in the AIGC Era
In the era of AIGC, a large number of liberal arts jobs, such as text writers, painters, and planners, are at risk of being replaced by AI. At the same time, the "intelligent emergence" of generative AI (meaning that what humans do not teach AI, AI can learn by itself) also makes people anxious about how to manage AI. The True Story Room spoke with Professor Yu Guoming, director of the Academic Committee of the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, and asked him...
