Recently, Super Micro Computer (SMCI) has seen a significant drop in its stock price. On October 31, the closing price fell by 11.97%, currently at $29.11. This decline is due to the resignation of its auditing firm, Ernst & Young, putting the company at renewed risk of delisting from Nasdaq after experiencing a series of challenges. In March of this year, Super Micro Computer successfully joined the S&P 500 index, but since then, the company has faced...

Struggling startup Humane announced on Wednesday that it has reduced the price of its flagship product, Ai Pin, by $200. Reportedly, the Bay Area startup founded by two former Apple executives has been struggling to sell the product, which was launched in April at a price of $700. The new price is $499, which includes the first month of the Humane Plan. The company also emphasized its return policy, offering a 90-day return period to make consumers feel risk-free. However, critics have not reacted positively to the device.

This Monday, chip manufacturing giant Nvidia once again set a new historical high in the stock market, closing at $138.07 per share. This increase has investors eagerly anticipating as major companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon are about to release their earnings reports, creating excitement over their investments in AI infrastructure. Year-to-date, Nvidia's stock price has surged nearly 180%, leaving many in astonishment. Even more surprising is Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.

Today, Doubao officially launched the Ola Friend smart earphones, which integrate artificial intelligence technology to provide users with an AI companion that is always by their side. The product is available in Silver Light, Lightweight White, Butterfly Wing Black, and Dreamy Purple colors, priced at 1199 Yuan, with pre-sales starting at 11 am on October 10.

Recently, there have been reports that OpenAI plans to significantly increase the subscription price for its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, over the next few years. According to The New York Times, internal documents indicate that the monthly subscription fee for ChatGPT Plus will rise from $20 to $22 by the end of this year, and is expected to reach $44 by 2029. This series of price increases is primarily aimed at addressing investor pressure and reducing the company's losses. Currently, ChatGPT's monthly revenue has reached

Global consulting firm Accenture has recently become the center of attention in the market, with its stock price experiencing a strong surge on Thursday, nearly reaching a six-month high. Company management happily announced that performance has exceeded market expectations while successfully positioning itself as a key player in the wave of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Accenture's CEO, Julie Sweet, confidently stated during the earnings call that the company is accelerating its efforts to solidify its leading position in the generative AI sector. This statement received a positive market response, leading to an increase in the company's stock price.

Google today announced the launch of the newly upgraded Gemini model series, which includes Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002. This update not only significantly enhances performance but also brings surprising price discounts, undoubtedly creating a buzz in the AI development community. Firstly, the most eye-catching aspect is the substantial price reduction. The usage cost of the new models has been halved, with a drop of over 50%. At the same time, performance has seen remarkable improvements.

Recently, the much-watched AI startup Perplexity AI, backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has been negotiating with several well-known brands, including Nike and Marriott International, to launch a 'Sponsored Q&A' advertising system by the end of the year. This system aims to challenge Google's dominance in the $300 billion digital advertising market. Based in San Francisco, Perplexity AI is developing a brand-new advertising model that allows brands to bid on 'sponsored questions.'

In the ever-changing tech landscape, Aliyun has once again made waves with its bold pricing strategy. At the 2024 Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Group not only showcased the future vision of AI technology but also announced a remarkable decision: a price reduction of up to 85% on AI large models. This move will undoubtedly stir the tech community and bring new possibilities for the popularization and application of AI technology. Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming delivered an important speech at the conference, emphasizing that the impact of generative AI will far exceed that of mobile applications, profoundly changing our lives.

The 2024 Yunqi Conference opened grandly in Hangzhou, with Alibaba Group CEO and Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group Chairman and CEO Wu Yongming delivering a keynote speech. During the conference, Alibaba announced a series of groundbreaking releases, including the launch of the next-generation open-source model Qwen2.5, which outperforms Llama405B and firmly holds the position of the 'strongest open-source large model'.

During the opening ceremony of the 2024 Yunqi Conference held today, Wu Yongming, director and CEO of Alibaba Group, as well as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Group, delivered a speech sharing profound insights on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He revealed that over the past year, the call price for the Tongyi Qianwen API on Alibaba Cloud's Bai Lian has dramatically dropped by 97%, with the cost of calling one million tokens now as low as 0.5 yuan, and Alibaba Cloud will continue to strive to reduce costs.

Canva has recently made significant adjustments to its pricing strategy, increasing prices for both the Canva Teams plan and individual users, leading to discontent among long-time users. The price of the Canva Teams five-member plan in the U.S. has increased from $119.99 to $500, while Australia's five-user monthly fee has risen from $39.99 to $13.50 per person. The annual fee for individual users has also increased from $119.99 to $100. New customers are already subject to the new pricing, but longtime users face pricing pressure. Canva explained that the price adjustment was necessary.

The Raspberry Pi 5 2GB version showcases exceptional cost performance and capabilities at a budget-friendly price of $50, making it a star product in the tech industry. This device inherits the high-performance tradition of the Raspberry Pi family by utilizing the cost-optimized BCM2712D0 application processor, successfully reducing the price to $50, which is $10 cheaper than the 4GB version. The BCM2712D0 processor eliminates unnecessary features while retaining the core quad-core processing and multimedia capabilities, effectively lowering production costs.

The academic community is currently facing a controversy over data usage rights, as many academic publishers begin to package and sell research paper data to technology companies for training AI models. This action has sparked widespread discussion. Deals between Taylor and Francis and Microsoft, as well as Wiley and another company, have led to academic achievements being used to enhance AI systems. This practice has caused waves in the research community. Experts point out that once papers are used for training, it is difficult to remove them later, and the widespread acquisition of datasets enables AI models to learn and generate high-quality text.

Zhipu AI announces that the LLM GLM-4-Long, which supports ultra-long context lengths, is now available on the open platform bigmodel.cn. This model is designed specifically for processing long texts and can read the equivalent of two copies of 'Dream of the Red Chamber' or 125 papers in one go. It is widely applied in scenarios such as translating long documents, global analysis of financial reports, extracting key information, and building chatbots with ultra-long memory.

Google announced a price cut for its fast AI model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, reducing input token costs to $0.075 per million tokens and output token costs to $0.30 per million tokens, representing a decrease of up to 78%. This move is highly beneficial for developers, particularly for scenarios such as summarization, classification, and multimodal understanding. The new API and AI studio from Google have enhanced PDF analysis capabilities, supporting the understanding of PDFs that include graphical and image content, and expanded language support to cover over 100 languages.