No. 1 in US stock turnover on Thursday$Tesla (TSLA.US)$It closed 1.35% higher and traded $25.76 billion. According to reports, Tesla has begun inviting users who pre-ordered Cybertruck in the early stages to choose a “basic version” vehicle. The price of this version of Cybertruck is as high as 120,000 US dollars, which is 20% higher than the starting price of the most expensive “Beast Edition”. It is estimated that only 1,000 vehicles will be produced.

Tesla said, “This is a full-option car, including a limited edition laser-etched logo, premium accessories, charging equipment with Powershare home backup hardware, all-terrain tires, FSD features, and more.” The company confirmed in an email to subscribers that the Cybertruck basic series has begun to be delivered in California and Texas, and will expand to more states in 2024.

Also, according to media reports on Thursday, Ganesh Venkataramanan, the director of Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project, left his job in November and resigned after being in charge of the project for five years. The project is now headed by Peter Bannon, who has been a director at Tesla for seven years and an executive at Apple.

The report also said that apart from the former head, Venkataramanan, at least one member of the Dojo project has left, and it is not yet known why these people left their jobs. According to media analysis, their departure not only dealt a blow to this hugely expensive project, but also caused Tesla's autonomous driving technology to suffer new setbacks.

Second place$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$It closed 2.4% higher and traded US$16.19 billion. Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun said in a media interview in Singapore on Wednesday that the company is working closely with the US government to ensure that new products for the Chinese market meet export restrictions.

3rd place$Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$It closed 9.89% higher and traded $14.84 billion. On December 7, AMD officially launched the AI GPU accelerator Instinct MI300X and the world's first data center acceleration processor, the AU Instinct MI300A, at the “Accelerated AI” event to supplement the computing power market.

According to AMD, including the MI300A and MI300X hardware products, the new MI300 series AI hardware products have improved performance by up to 60% compared to the Nvidia H100. AMD CEO Lisa Su (Lisa Su) said that AMD's MI300X hardware product is “the most advanced artificial intelligence accelerator in the industry,” and claims that its performance is superior to Nvidia's current products.

Fourth place$Apple (AAPL.US)$It closed 1.01% higher and traded $9.22 billion. On Thursday (December 7) local time, Guo Mingyi, a well-known fruit chain analyst, recently posted that given the popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) in 2023, it is not difficult to predict that Apple will launch related innovative features in the iPhone 16.

Guo Mingyi pointed out that Apple reorganized the Siri team in the third quarter of this year. The goal of this move was to integrate AIGC functions and the Large Language Model (LLM). He added that voice input will be the key interface for AI, so enhancing the functions and specifications of Siri's software and hardware is the key to promoting AIGC.

According to another report, Apple may release new iPad and Mac products next spring, hoping to revive demand next year with the new models. The media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Apple is preparing to release a new generation of iPad Air, iPad Pro, and MacBook Air early next year. Among them, for the first time, the new iPad Air will be offered in two sizes, both a pure Wi-Fi version and a cellular version. The larger iPad Air Pro is about 12.9 inches and will use an OLED display.

6th place$Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$It closed 5.31% higher and traded $7.77 billion. 8th place$Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$It closed 5.34% higher and traded $5.31 billion. On Wednesday, Google released Gemini, a large artificial intelligence model, divided into three versions: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. J.P. Morgan called the “most versatile” AI model a “major innovation” for the tech giant because it further strengthened its position in the generative artificial intelligence race.

Komo analyst Doug Anmuth reiterated Google's “overweight” rating and target price of $150, and pointed out that the three versions of Gemini (Ultra, Pro, and Nano) will allow LLM to do whatever is necessary anywhere.

7th place$Amazon (AMZN.US)$It closed 1.63% higher and traded $7.68 billion. Amazon said on Thursday local time that it is piloting a new grocery delivery service for its Prime members, marking the latest adjustments to its online supermarket service. Members of the company's Prime plan can choose to pay $9.99 per month to receive unlimited grocery delivery services from Whole Foods (Whole Foods) and Amazon Fresh (Amazon Fresh) for orders over $35. They can also pick up orders of any size within 30 minutes. First, the service will launch in Denver, Colorado.

9th place$Meta Platforms (META.US)$It closed 2.88% higher and traded $5.17 billion. Meta Platforms said on Wednesday that it will add an invisible watermark to its text-to-image generation products in the coming weeks to improve transparency. This technology is resistant to common image processing such as cropping, screencasting, etc. It is reported that the company is testing more than 20 new generative artificial intelligence methods to improve the experience on social media platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp.

10th$Broadcom (AVGO.US)$It closed 2.06% higher and traded $3.98 billion. Broadcom's adjusted EPS for the fourth fiscal quarter is $11.06, and analysts expect $10.93; adjusted net revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter is $9.30 billion; hardware solution revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter is $7.33 billion, and analysts expect $7.27 billion; the 2024 fiscal year revenue is expected to be about $50 billion; the adjusted EBITDA for the whole year is expected to account for about 60% of the estimated revenue.

14th$Uber Technologies (UBER.US)$It closed 2.06% higher and traded $2.08 billion. Uber will join after opening on December 18$S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$(SPX). Prior to that, Uber's market capitalization had already exceeded 100 billion US dollars, making it one of the largest non-S&P 500 companies in the US market capitalization.

18th place$Boeing (BA.US)$The company closed 0.19% higher and traded $1,496 million. Boeing is currently in deep negotiations to sell about 80 wide-body 787 Dreamliners to Thai Airways. Furthermore, the company hinted on Thursday that its plan to increase production of the 737 aircraft would be delayed by two months.

The following are the 20 most actively traded US stocks on the same day (by turnover):

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