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NO.1 Tech Giants' Q1 Earnings Reports Coming This Week

This week, among the “Big Seven” tech giants in the U.S. stock market, Tesla will release its post-market earnings report on April 23rd, Meta on April 24th, and Microsoft and Google on April 25th, 2024. According to Bloomberg Industry Research, the Magnificent 7’s profits are expected to soar by 38% in the first quarter. Excluding these seven companies, the profits of the remaining companies in the S&P 500 Index are expected to decline by 3.9%.

Commentary: The tech sector has been under significant pressure recently, and the performance of the tech giants’ earnings reports is very important for reversing the downturn.

NO.2 Intel Releases Large Neuromorphic System

Intel has released a large neuromorphic system called Hala Point, aimed at supporting cutting-edge research in the field of brain-like artificial intelligence. Compared to the previous generation, the Hala Point system has more than ten times the neuronal capacity and twelve times the performance, capable of performing 20 quadrillion operations per second when running traditional deep neural networks.

Commentary: This system is expected to address challenges in efficiency and sustainability for AI and promote the development of brain-like artificial intelligence technology.

NO.3 Llama 3 Gains Popularity, Surpassing Claude 3 Opus

Meta’s newly released open-source large model, Llama 3-70B, has climbed to the top of the large model rankings, second only to GPT-4, surpassing Claude 3 Opus. Llama 3-70B can run at a speed of over 800 tokens per second on the GroqCloud platform.

Commentary: The release of Llama-3 means that the open-source community will have access to a large model comparable to GPT-4.

NO.4 Google Restructures Its AI Division

Google has announced the restructuring of its AI division, pulling together teams from DeepMind and Google Research to form a new department focused on the development and commercialization of AI. After the integration, the DeepMind team will primarily be responsible for building AI models, while Google Research will shift its focus to fundamental computer science research.

Commentary: This move indicates that Google hopes to accelerate the development and commercial application of AI technology by integrating the strengths of these two major teams.

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