SoftBank’s Vision Fund logs $4 billion gain, its biggest in nearly 3 years, as tech valuations recover
SoftBank posted its biggest gain in nearly three years at the flagship tech investment arm, the Vision Fund, in the December quarter amid a recovery in valuation of technology companies. Here’s how SoftBank did in the December quarter against LSEG estimates: Net sales: 1.77 trillion Japanese yen ($11.9 billion) versus 1.8 trillion Japanese yen expected. Net income: 950 billion Japanese yen versus 196.5 billion yen expected. The Vision Fund logged a gain on investment of 600.7 billion Japanese...
SoftBank’s Vision Fund logs $4 billion gain, its biggest in nearly 3 years, as tech valuations recover
SoftBank posted its biggest gain in nearly three years at the flagship tech investment arm, the Vision Fund, in the December quarter amid a recovery in valuation of technology companies. Here’s how SoftBank did in the December quarter against LSEG estimates: Net sales: 1.77 trillion Japanese yen ($11.9 billion) versus 1.8 trillion Japanese yen expected. Net income: 950 billion Japanese yen versus 196.5 billion yen expected. The Vision Fund logged a gain on investment of 600.7 billion Japanese...
Cortana goes down on Windows 11, the first voice assistant to "die" at the hands of generative AI!
Once upon a time, voice assistants became one of the must-have features on smart devices such as cell phones and computers, and between one time and another, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google's Assistant, Samsung's Bixby, Xiaomi's Xiao Ai, and Huawei's Ceila came out in an endless stream. Nowadays, under the impact of generative AI such as ChatGPT and Copilot, these voice assistants are destined to be drowned in the river of history if they fail to catch ...
Cortana goes down on Windows 11, the first voice assistant to "die" at the hands of generative AI!
Once upon a time, voice assistants became one of the must-have features on smart devices such as cell phones and computers, and between one time and another, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google's Assistant, Samsung's Bixby, Xiaomi's Xiao Ai, and Huawei's Ceila came out in an endless stream. Nowadays, under the impact of generative AI such as ChatGPT and Copilot, these voice assistants are destined to be drowned in the river of history if they fail to catch ...
Behind Meta's commercial open-source best big model: giant life-preserving competition, Musk, Apple take a different path
Meta announced on July 19th on its official website that the large language model Llama2 was officially released, which is the latest version of Meta's large language model and Meta's first open-source commercial large language model, and at the same time, Microsoft Azure also announced that it would cooperate with Llama2 in depth. According to Meta's official data, Llama 2 has a 40% increase in training data compared to its predecessor, and includes 3 versions with 7 billion, ...
Behind Meta's commercial open-source best big model: giant life-preserving competition, Musk, Apple take a different path
Meta announced on July 19th on its official website that the large language model Llama2 was officially released, which is the latest version of Meta's large language model and Meta's first open-source commercial large language model, and at the same time, Microsoft Azure also announced that it would cooperate with Llama2 in depth. According to Meta's official data, Llama 2 has a 40% increase in training data compared to its predecessor, and includes 3 versions with 7 billion, ...
Interview with HKSAR government officials: do not want to miss Web3 in three steps to build the ecology
"Hong Kong missed the dividends of Web1 and Web2, so we won't miss out on Web3," stressed Hanjing Liang, Head of Financial Technology of the HKSAR Government's Investment Promotion Agency, in a recent interview with Meta Universe NEWS. Since the HKSAR Government issued the "Policy Statement on the Development of Virtual Assets in Hong Kong" on October 31 last year, the atmosphere of local Web3 development in Hong Kong has been blazing. It is understood that more than 150 related com...
Interview with HKSAR government officials: do not want to miss Web3 in three steps to build the ecology
"Hong Kong missed the dividends of Web1 and Web2, so we won't miss out on Web3," stressed Hanjing Liang, Head of Financial Technology of the HKSAR Government's Investment Promotion Agency, in a recent interview with Meta Universe NEWS. Since the HKSAR Government issued the "Policy Statement on the Development of Virtual Assets in Hong Kong" on October 31 last year, the atmosphere of local Web3 development in Hong Kong has been blazing. It is understood that more than 150 related com...
Accenture's Yi Yu: Three key technology trends - cloud computing, metaverse and artificial intelligence - will define the next decade
When I met Yu Yi, Global Vice President, President of the Enterprise Technology Innovation Business Unit of Accenture Greater China and President of Accenture's Ali Business Unit, he had just come out of the main conference hall of the 14th Annual New Leaders Conference of the World Economic Forum ("Summer Davos 2023"). "We think this conference at this moment is timely." Yu Yi said that artificial intelligence technology is bringing us a whole new perspective and possibilities, and this...
Accenture's Yi Yu: Three key technology trends - cloud computing, metaverse and artificial intelligence - will define the next decade
When I met Yu Yi, Global Vice President, President of the Enterprise Technology Innovation Business Unit of Accenture Greater China and President of Accenture's Ali Business Unit, he had just come out of the main conference hall of the 14th Annual New Leaders Conference of the World Economic Forum ("Summer Davos 2023"). "We think this conference at this moment is timely." Yu Yi said that artificial intelligence technology is bringing us a whole new perspective and possibilities, and this...
