Krypton Evening News | The "Pang Donglai-style" Yonghui in Beijing has achieved a sales volume of 7.7 million yuan in the past 5 days; Qianxun Position's global enhanced service is officially commercially available; iFLYTEK debuts multimodal visual interaction technology and super anthropomorphic digital human capabilities.
Big Companies:
Deep Blue Aerospace to Pre-Sell 1.5 Million Yuan Space Travel Tickets on Taobao
36Kr learned that according to the official Weibo message of Deep Blue Aerospace, at 6 pm on October 24, Huo Liang, the chairman of the Chinese commercial aerospace enterprise Deep Blue Aerospace, will be in the Taobao live broadcast room of Make Friends to introduce the progress and plans of the company's commercial spacecraft manned work, and launch the pre-sale activity of the first suborbital manned travel spacecraft ticket for the manned spacecraft in 2027.
Beijing's "Fat Donglai Version" Yonghui Achieves a Sales of 7.7 Million Yuan in Nearly 5 Days
36Kr learned that the latest data from Yonghui shows that since the first store in Beijing that Yonghui Supermarket independently adjusted and transformed to "learn from Fat Donglai" resumed business on October 19, the sales in the nearly 5 days have reached 7.7 million yuan, the number of customers entering the store is 200,000, and the number of customers checking out is 66,000. The sales of bakery products increased by 868.63%, and the sales of cooked food products increased by 1445.57%.
State Power Investment Nuclear Energy Company Increases Capital to 24 Billion Yuan
36Kr learned that the Aiqicha App shows that recently, State Power Investment Nuclear Energy Co., Ltd. has undergone industrial and commercial changes, and its registered capital has increased from about 22.853 billion yuan to about 24.021 billion yuan. The company was established in December 2004, with Hao Hongsheng as the legal representative. Its business scope includes power generation business, power transmission business, power supply business, investing activities with its own funds, asset management services for self-owned fund investment, complete sets of nuclear power equipment and engineering technology research and development, etc. Shareholder information shows that the company is held by State Nuclear Power Technology Co., Ltd. under State Power Investment and China Life Insurance, with shares of about 73% and 27% respectively.
Lujiazui Group's Real Estate Company Increases Capital to 2.2 Billion Yuan, with an Increase of 120%
36Kr learned that the Aiqicha App shows that recently, Shanghai Yaoxue Real Estate Co., Ltd. has undergone industrial and commercial changes, and its registered capital has increased from 1 billion yuan to 2.2 billion yuan. Shanghai Lujiazui Zhimao Investment Co., Ltd. has withdrawn from the list of shareholders, and its parent company, Shanghai Lujiazui (Group) Co., Ltd., has been added as a shareholder. Shanghai Yaoxue Real Estate Co., Ltd. was established in June 2017, with Cai Rong as the legal representative. Its business scope includes construction project construction, real estate development and operation, high-risk sports (skiing), high-risk sports (swimming), entertainment activities, performance brokerage, etc. It is held by Shanghai Lujiazui (Group) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Hongbin Real Estate Co., Ltd. with shares of about 57% and 43% respectively.
Qianxun Positioning's Global Enhancement Service Officially Goes into Commercial Use
36Kr learned that on October 24, the Third Beidou Scale Application International Summit was held in Zhuzhou, Hunan. During the summit, at the Beidou Scale Application Industrialization Forum, Chen Jinpei, the CEO of Qianxun Positioning, announced that Qianxun Positioning's Space-Time Intelligent Global Connectivity Service has officially gone into commercial use.
Intel Wins 1.1 Billion Euro Antitrust Lawsuit in the EU, Ending a Nearly 20-Year Dispute
The European Court of Justice, the highest court in the European Union, ruled in favor of Intel on Thursday, dismissing the appeal by the European Commission, thus ending the nearly 20-year antitrust dispute between the two sides. The European Court of Justice said today: "We have dismissed the European Commission's appeal, thereby upholding the previous judgment of the General Court." As early as 2000, AMD complained to the European Union that Intel used its monopoly position in the processor market to suppress PC manufacturers that used AMD processors. In 2007, the European Commission announced that it had officially filed a lawsuit against Intel for using illegal means to suppress AMD. At this time, it has been 7 years since AMD's complaint. (Sina Technology)
36Kr learned that on October 23, the National Intelligent Driving Test Competition ended in Beijing. Nezha S Hunting Edition won the Excellence Award in the automatic parking special competition. It is reported that the National Intelligent Driving Test Competition is hosted by the Machinery Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and is one of the most important communication platforms in the field of intelligent driving. It is understood that in the perception aspect of Nezha's automatic parking system, fisheye cameras are used, and the BEV technology and OCC technology in the driving system are borrowed to improve the accuracy of recognition. In the planning and control aspect, Nezha智驾 adopts a heuristic search algorithm, enabling the system to flexibly deal with high-dynamic and complex scenarios such as underground garages.
Investment and Financing:
"Zedman Pharma" Announces Completion of Nearly 100 Million Yuan A+ Round Financing
36Kr learned that according to the official Weibo of Zedman Pharma, "Zedman Pharma" announced the completion of nearly 100 million yuan in A + round financing. This round of financing is led by Qingdao Guoxin, and the company's existing shareholders, Bainuo Capital, Hankang Capital, and Beda Fund continue to increase their investments. Kaichen Capital continues to serve as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds raised in this round of financing are mainly used to accelerate the research and development, clinical research, and commercial promotion of multiple related therapeutic drugs for autoimmune inflammatory diseases targeting the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR).
New Products:
Kuaishou: KeLing AI Has Over 3.6 Million Users, and the Independent App is About to be Launched
36Kr learned that at the 2024 China Computer Conference, Zhang Di, Vice President of Kuaishou and Head of the Large Model Team, announced that KeLing AI will internally test the video face model function. Based on the innovative ID retention capability, it supports users to self-train face models. After the training is completed, the model can be used to generate 5s/10s text-to-video, solving the problem that in the past AI video generation, it was impossible to create a stable character IP role. It was also introduced at the conference that since its release in June this year, KeLing AI has had more than 3.6 million users, and has cumulatively generated 37 million videos and more than 100 million images. Recently, the independent App of KeLing AI will also be launched to facilitate user use.
36Kr learned that at the iFLYTEK 1024 Global Developer Festival, iFLYTEK publicly displayed its multi-modal visual interaction technology and super-humanoid digital human capability for the first time. With just one photo, its super-humanoid digital human can have a real-time face-to-face conversation with the user, and the lips, expressions, and actions are automatically generated by the large model and can fully match the text's intent. According to the official introduction, the internal test channel of this super-humanoid digital human has been opened in the iFLYTEK Zhizuo product.
Domestic Ultra-Large-Scale Intelligent Computing Platform "Feixing II" Launched
36Kr learned that at the iFLYTEK 1024 Global Developer Festival, the domestic ultra-large-scale intelligent computing platform "Feixing II" jointly created by iFLYTEK, Huawei, and Hefei Big Data Asset Operation Co., Ltd. was officially launched.
Today's Views:
Lucid CEO: Autonomous Driving Unlikely to be Achieved Before 2030
In a recent interview, Peter Rawlinson, the CEO of Tesla's competitor Lucid Group, said that he believes that autonomous driving cars will not be available soon. Rawlinson said in an interview with Semafor: "It's like refining gold to 99.9999% - the first few 9s are easy, but the last 0.01% is difficult. I think this will only happen in the 2030s." Rawlinson also said that "from a mechanical perspective", Lucid has the best cars in the world, but has always had difficulties in the autonomous driving function. (Sina Finance)
Other News Worth Noting:
On October 24, He Yadong, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a regular press conference that the national-level economic development zones are the "national team" of China's high-level opening to the outside world. In 2023, the total import and export volume of the national-level economic development zones is 10 trillion yuan, and the actual utilization of foreign capital is 39.5 billion US dollars, accounting for more than 24% of the national total. (Jiemian)
2024 China Marine Development Index Report Released
On October 24, at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Marine Cooperation and Development Forum, the China Marine Development Research Society and the National Marine Information Center released the "2024 China Marine Development Index Report". The "Report" shows that the average annual growth rate of the China Marine Development Index from 2016 to 2023 is 2.9%. The index in 2023 is 125.3, an increase of 3.0% compared with the previous year. (CCTV News)
Learned from the State Post Bureau, the peak season of express delivery has started. On October 22, the national express delivery packages received in a single day exceeded 700 million, setting a new record. This year's peak season of express delivery business started on October 21 and is expected to end before the Spring Festival in 2025. Data from the State Post Bureau shows that from October 21 to 23, the national postal and express delivery industry received about 1.92 billion express delivery packages, an increase of 48.7% year-on-year; the delivered express delivery packages were about 1.655 billion, an increase of 29.5% year-on-year. Among them, 729 million express delivery packages were received on October 22, an increase of 74% year-on-year, refreshing the single-day business volume record. (CCTV News)