AI Daily, May 23 — Today's AI Daily Morning News main contents include: Tencent's Hybrid Yuan-Lite and IFLY Spark API capabilities are free; test grounds for AI trainers in Hangzhou are full, and AI trainers are setting off a testing boom; and Google announced the addition of advertisements to AI search results.

▍ Earnings greatly exceeded expectations, and Nvidia's stock price broke through $1,000 after the market

According to financial reports, Nvidia achieved revenue of 26 billion US dollars in the first fiscal quarter, an increase of 262% over the same period last year; Q1 net profit of 14.81 billion US dollars, up 628% year on year; and gross margin reached 78.4%, compared to 64.6% in the same period last year. In terms of dividends, Nvidia announced a split of 10 shares per share and increased its quarterly dividend by 150% to 10 cents per share.

Prior to the announcement of Nvidia's current results, Wall Street had expected Nvidia's revenue to grow 240% to US$24.6 billion in the first fiscal quarter, while net profit would increase 540% to US$13.1 billion. As can be seen, although Wall Street has given higher expectations, Nvidia has given stronger answers, exceeding market forecasts. Nvidia US shares surpassed $1,000 after the market.

▍ Tencent's mixed element big model, full price reduction, mixed element - lite free

Tencent Cloud announced a new large-scale model upgrade plan. One of the main models is the mixed-lite model. The total API input and output length is planned to be upgraded from the current 4k to 256k, and the price will be adjusted from 0.008 yuan/thousand tokens to completely free. Mixed-standard API input prices decreased by 55%, and API output prices decreased by 50%. With the newly launched mixed-element standard-256k, the API input price was reduced by 87.5%, and the API output price was reduced by 50%. The maximum configuration is the trillion-parameter model mixed element - pro, and the API input price is reduced by 70%.

▍ JD Financial lost millions due to bugs in response to closed beta activities

According to reports, recently it was revealed that the test activity for the JD Finance 520 campaign was set up as an event where all users could participate. Many people grabbed 52.1 yuan of red envelopes, and JD Finance lost millions of dollars. Some people broke the news that JD has begun to be held to account within JD.

In response, the relevant staff of JD Finance said that for consumers who have already received a 52.1 yuan red envelope, they will not be able to take it back and can use it with confidence. The JD Finance App scan WeChat payment code discount campaign was unaffected and will continue. Some netizens said, “I don't know why this kind of good thing always comes to an end. Of course, there is no charge; it is directly converted into advertising expenses, which simply makes money.”

▍ The top version of the Xinfei Spark API is as low as 0.21 million tokens and the price is one-fifth of Baidu Ali

iFLYTEK announced on May 22 that the iFLY Spark API capabilities will be officially released free of charge. Among them, the iFLY Spark Lite API is permanently free of charge, and the price of the iFLY Spark 3.5 Max (Spark 3.5 Max) API is as low as 20,000 tokens. Currently, Baidu Wenxin ERNIE-4.0 and Ali Tongyi Qianwen Qwen-Max are priced at 1.2 yuan/10,000 tokens, and the pricing for iFLY Spark is less than one-fifth of that.

In response to the survey, iFLYTEK stated that the business logic related to iFLYX's free Spark API has been successfully implemented and verified on the iFLYX AI Open Platform: iFLYX Open Platform provides artificial intelligence capabilities and overall solutions for the entire industry. The basic capabilities are free, and charges for customized services with higher performance and higher performance that other companies cannot do.

▍ The test site for AI trainers in Hangzhou is full of AI trainers, setting off a boom in testing

According to CCTV financial reports, with the rapid rise of the digital economy such as big data and big models, the field of artificial intelligence has become a source of employment. Recently, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, a vocational skill rating test for artificial intelligence trainers is held every weekend. Each exam is scheduled for the morning and afternoon. Each exam has 3 exam rooms, which can accommodate more than 200 candidates. The exam room is almost full.

▍ Google announces the addition of ads to AI search results

According to Google's official press release, Google recently announced that it will add shopping ads to AI search results in the US region, and related content will have an “advertisement” logo. Google claims that these promotional content will only appear if the “hint words” provided by the advertiser match the “hint words” of the content users are looking for. According to reports, the Google team has tested related functions in the early stages, and user feedback on advertising information above/below the AI-generated content is very helpful.

▍ Pinduoduo surpassed Alibaba by up more than 7% in pre-market capitalization in total market value

Pinduoduo rose more than 7% to 155 US dollars/share, surpassing Alibaba with a total market capitalization of 215 billion US dollars. By the close of the previous trading day, Alibaba's total market value was 209.6 billion US dollars. According to the financial report just released, Pinduoduo's revenue for the first quarter was 86.81 billion yuan, with the market estimated at 76.86 billion yuan, up 131% year on year; adjusted net profit was 30.6 billion yuan, and the market estimated 15.53 billion yuan, up 202% year on year.

▍ Baichuan Intelligence releases Baichuan 4 and the first AI smart assistant

Baichuan Intelligence released the latest generation large pedestal model Baichuan 4, and launched the first AI assistant “Baixiaoying” since its establishment.

▍ Kuaishou Cheng laughed: the overall performance of the big model is close to GPT 4.0 level after iteration

Cheng Yixiao, founder and CEO of Kuaishou Technology, revealed during the performance conference call that on the basis of data and model architecture optimization during the pre-training phase, technological breakthroughs in strengthening learning RLHF through feedback have made the overall performance of Kuaishou's 175 billion large-scale language model close to the level of GPT 4.0 after being updated and iterated.

▍ Organization: In the first quarter, Huawei became the global folding screen smartphone market leader

According to the TechInsights research report, in Q1 2024, Huawei became the leader in the global folding screen smartphone market, especially in the book-based folding screen phone category. Samsung and Honor are close behind.