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2025.02.23

22:04

                            【Lens Technology said it will cooperate with Lingban Technology to provide support for global AI glasses shipments
                        
                            Lens Technology's official Weibo account revealed that the company has reached a deep strategic cooperation with Hangzhou Lingban Technology (Rokid), a leading AI interaction company. Through whole-machine assembly and full industry chain integration, it will provide support for the explosive growth of global AI glasses shipments in 2025 (estimated to reach 4 million to 12 million units).
                        
21:23

                            Berkshire Hathaway's financial report shows that as of December 31, 71% of the total fair value of its equity investments were concentrated in American Express, Apple, Bank of America, Chevron and Coca-Cola.
                        
21:22

                            Buffett's shareholder letter: 71% of the total fair value of equity investments is concentrated in companies such as American Express
                        
                            Berkshire Hathaway's financial report shows that as of December 31, 71% of the total fair value of its equity investments were concentrated in American Express, Apple, Bank of America, Chevron and Coca-Cola.
                        
21:04

                            News Broadcast: Foreign financial institutions are optimistic about China's innovation breakthroughs
                        
                            CCTV's "News Network" reported today that many foreign institutions believe that China has continuously made breakthroughs in the field of technological innovation and is building a more complete industrial chain, which will continuously enhance China's international competitiveness. Morgan Stanley recently upgraded the MSCI China Index rating and believed that Chinese companies have shown strong competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence. Supported by a number of latest technological breakthroughs, technology-intensive enterprises are expected to achieve double growth in profit margins and yields. Goldman Sachs' research report is optimistic about China's development prospects in data, "cloud services", software and applications. The research report of Neuberger Berman Fund believes that China's long-term innovation ability will bring more technological innovation results and continuously increase investment opportunities. In addition, foreign financial institutions have also increased the frequency of research on Chinese companies. Foreign institutions such as Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, HSBC, Schroders, Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas have recently appeared on the research list of A-share listed companies many times, covering many industries such as electric vehicles, consumption, and home appliances. A report recently released by the International Financial Association shows that in January, foreign investors actively deployed Chinese assets, and the total amount of foreign capital net purchases of Chinese stocks and bonds exceeded US$10 billion.
                        
20:19

                            DeepSeek+ virtual 3D reconstruction gives a new life to an 82-year-old renal pelvis cancer patient at Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital
                        
                            Recently, the urology team of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital successfully used the DeepSeek artificial intelligence system and virtual three-dimensional reconstruction technology to perform radical surgery for renal pelvic cancer combined with inferior vena cava cancer thrombus on an 82-year-old patient, Grandpa Wang (pseudonym). After the operation, Grandpa Wang recovered smoothly and is about to be discharged from the hospital. Xiong Wei, director of the Urology Department of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, said that this successful case has far-reaching significance. The application of the DeepSeek system and three-dimensional reconstruction technology will further enhance the professional capabilities of the surgical team, reduce surgical risks, and strengthen the doctor-patient community. Regarding the role of artificial intelligence in medical care, Xiong Wei believes that although new technologies can effectively assist decision-making, they will not replace the work of doctors. He emphasized that technology empowerment solves the problem of "whether it can be done" and allows doctors to focus on the value judgment of "whether it should be done". The purpose of new technologies is to allow doctors to focus more on judgment, decision-making and empathy.
                        
19:30

                            Nezha 2 box office forecast rises again, rising for 2 consecutive days
                        
                            According to the data from Lighthouse Professional Edition, the total box office of "Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Dragon King" (including previews, pre-sales, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas box office) has exceeded 13.3 billion yuan. It is currently ranked 8th in the global box office history list, less than 900 million yuan away from the 7th place "Spider-Man: No Return". Lighthouse AI forecasts show that the predicted total box office of "Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Dragon King" has risen for 2 consecutive days, and the latest forecast data on January 21 is 15.325 billion yuan. Based on this calculation, "Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Dragon King" may surpass "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and hit the top five in the global film and television box office list.
                        
18:39

                            Shanghai: We will promote the open source trend by further improving the open source ecosystem
                        
                            According to the news released by Shanghai, in recent years, Shanghai's artificial intelligence industry has continuously made new breakthroughs in technological innovation, industrial integration, and international cooperation. By the end of 2024, the scale of Shanghai's artificial intelligence industry will exceed 450 billion yuan, and a total of 60 generative artificial intelligence service large models will be registered, ranking second in the country, forming a development pattern with Xuhui's "Modu Space" in the west and Pudong's "Modu Community" in the east. Open source is an important factor in the development of large models. Shanghai will give full play to the comprehensive advantages of a super-large city and promote the trend of open source by further improving the open source ecosystem. Shanghai will accelerate the promotion of large-scale applications in vertical fields, continue to cultivate an inclusive and open developer culture, and continuously improve the level of development and core competitiveness of artificial intelligence. The first-class business environment that Shanghai continues to create will help first-class companies, innovative teams, and outstanding talents in the field of AI at home and abroad to take root and grow, combine their own technological advantages with Shanghai's open source ecology, industrial ecology, and innovation ecology, and jointly write a bright future for artificial intelligence.
                        
16:59

                            Shanghai: Promote large-scale application of AI in vertical fields, focus on fields such as autonomous driving and form application scenarios
                        
                            The 2025 Global Developer Pioneer Conference with the theme of "Moulding Global Infinite Possibilities" opened on February 22. Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Jie said that in the face of the new trend of rapid iteration of artificial intelligence and open source models, Shanghai will continue to give full play to the comprehensive advantages of a megacity and accelerate the construction of an artificial intelligence "Shanghai Highland" with greater international influence. Further improve the open source and open ecosystem, consolidate the "corpus open + model open source" service system, continuously strengthen the power of the open source community, promote the sharing and openness of basic models, algorithms and data resources, and build an open, collaborative, mutually beneficial and win-win innovation environment. Shanghai will accelerate the promotion of large-scale application of artificial intelligence in vertical fields, focus on the "5+6" key vertical fields such as smart terminals and autonomous driving, deepen cooperation with chip, basic model, intelligent computing software and hardware manufacturers, accelerate the implementation of the "Moulding Shanghai" project, form a number of replicable and popularizable application scenarios, and promote the two-way empowerment of technology and industry. Continue to cultivate an inclusive and open developer culture, optimize the guarantee of factor resources, actively cultivate an active developer ecosystem, encourage more developers to devote themselves to the research and development, transformation and application of artificial intelligence technology, and inject new vitality into the development of artificial intelligence.
                        
16:24

                            The Global Developers Pioneer Conference opens, and leading domestic and foreign artificial intelligence companies will have major announcements
                        
                            On February 22, the opening ceremony of the Global Developers Pioneer Conference was held at the West Bund Grand Theater in Shanghai. A number of leading domestic and foreign artificial intelligence companies will release major technologies and solutions during the conference, covering multiple fields such as intelligent development tools, multimodal large models, enterprise-level services, and open source ecology. At the opening ceremony, the Global Scientific Intelligence Developer Community, the Modular Space Carrier Upgrade Plan, and the Shanghai "Moulding Shanghai" open source innovation ecosystem construction action were launched.
                        
15:46

                            SenseTime launches R-UniAD, an end-to-end technology route for collaborative interaction with the world model
                        
                            Wang Xiaogang, CEO of SenseTime, co-founder and chief scientist of SenseTime Technology, today released the industry's first "end-to-end autonomous driving route R-UniAD that interacts with the world model" at the 2025GDC Global Developer Pioneer Conference. By building a world model to generate an online interactive simulation environment, it can conduct reinforcement learning training for the end-to-end model. According to the plan, SenseTime will release the R-UniAD end-to-end autonomous driving solution at the Shanghai Auto Show in April this year and complete the actual vehicle deployment.
                        
15:35

                            Apple plans to release a chip codenamed "Prometheus" in 2027 that will surpass Qualcomm in performance
                        
                            It is reported that Apple is accelerating its efforts to get rid of its dependence on Qualcomm. The iPhone 16e is just the beginning, and self-developed baseband chips will be used on more devices in the future. It is reported that an important reason for Apple to get rid of its dependence on Qualcomm is that it believes that third-party chips cannot provide an ideal experience and do not understand the core experience of the iPhone, so it is determined to develop its own baseband chips. Apple's short-term goal after the C1 chip is to support mmWave 5G technology and enable it to achieve speeds of more than 6 Gbps. Apple may launch a 5G chip code-named "Ganymede" in the 2026 iPhone 18 series and the 2027 iPad Pro product line to support mmWave 5G technology. In addition, Apple plans to release a chip code-named "Prometheus" in 2027, which will surpass Qualcomm in performance. 
                        
15:05

                            A Honda Motor executive dismissed a potential partnership with Foxconn, citing the limited benefits it would bring.
                        
14:07

                            Tencent Yuanbao surpasses Doubao and ranks second in Apple's free APP download rankings in China
                        
                            Tencent Yuanbao surpassed Doubao today and rose to second place in the free APP download rankings in China, while Deepseek continued to top the list.
                        
11:45

                            Xiong Jijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Accelerate the construction of my country's open source ecosystem
                        
                            At the 2025 Global Developer Pioneer Conference, Xiong Jijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adhere to innovation-driven and application-driven development to create a good development environment for developers. Among them, we must make the first move in innovation. Improve the ability to innovate key technologies and fully unleash the wisdom and talents of developers in the new era. Strengthen the technical supply of open source frameworks, open source models, etc., accelerate the promotion of software and hardware adaptation, and promote large model technology iteration and industrial upgrading. Improve the open source ecosystem. Build an advanced open source service system, create an open source innovation service system with all elements and highlights, cultivate a group of professional open source service providers, build an internationally advanced artificial intelligence open source community, and accelerate the improvement of my country's open source ecosystem. Create an application test field. Accelerate the implementation of technology products, insist that good products are used, give full play to my country's super-large market, perfect industrial chain, and rich application scenario advantages, open a number of high-value scenarios for developers, accelerate the implementation of new technologies and new products, and cultivate new formats and new technologies.
                        
10:21

                            Huangshan AI Travel Assistant fully integrates DeepSeek big model
                        
                            It was learned from Huangshan Tourism that recently, the company's Tuma Technology has fully integrated the Huangshan AI travel assistant into the DeepSeek model.
                        
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