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OpenAI and Broadcom Release First Jalapeño Inference Chip
OpenAI yesterday jointly released the first chip "Jalapeño" with Broadcom, designed for large language model inference tasks.
OpenAI stated that Jalapeño is the first generation AI accelerator of a multi-generation computing platform. The chip architecture was designed by OpenAI from scratch based on model roadmap, inference kernels, serving systems, and product requirements, while Broadcom was responsible for silicon implementation, networking, and connectivity technologies, and Celestica participated in board, cabinet, and system integration.
Key disclosed progresses include:
- Engineering samples have been running machine learning tasks in the lab at target frequency and power consumption, including GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark.
- Early testing shows that Jalapeño's per-watt performance exceeds current state-of-the-art; full performance technical report will be released in the coming months.
- The chip went from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in only 9 months, which OpenAI claims is one of the fastest ASIC development cycles in high-performance advanced semiconductors.
- The platform is planned to start deployment by the end of 2026 and expand to multiple generations in subsequent years; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan stated that the platform will support building gigawatt-scale data centers with partners like Microsoft.
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Omdia: Global smartphone average selling price expected to rise to 3800 yuan this year
Market research firm Omdia recently released a report showing that the global smartphone market is experiencing a structural change of "volume decline and price increase" this year. Global smartphone shipments will drop 12.2% year-on-year to 1.093 billion units, a decrease of 152 million units from last year; but the total market value is expected to grow 6.1% year-on-year.
Omdia predicts that the global smartphone average selling price will rise from $467 last year to $565 this year (approximately 3842 yuan), an increase of $98, or about 21%, both the price level and increase are record highs for the industry.
The main reason for the price increase is supply chain cost pressure. Omdia said that in the first quarter of this year, the average price of DRAM and NAND flash memory rose more than 80% quarter-on-quarter, and continued to rise in the second quarter.
Omdia also expects that the global smartphone market contraction will continue into next year, but the decline in shipments will narrow to 0.9%. Because the manufacturing cost of smartphones below $100 is still difficult to significantly reduce, substantial recovery in industry shipments is not expected until 2028.
SpaceX stock price drops, Musk's net worth falls back to $957 billion
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk's personal net worth has fallen back to $957 billion, a drop of $443 billion from the high of about $1.4 trillion on June 16.
The decline in Musk's wealth mainly comes from the drop in SpaceX stock price. Bloomberg data shows that the book value of Musk's SpaceX shares is about $744 billion, accounting for nearly 80% of his total net worth; as of the close on June 23 local time, SpaceX stock price was $156, down more than 30% from its peak.
Musk still ranks first on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The index shows that second-ranked Larry Page's net worth is about $297 billion, still more than $660 billion behind Musk.
SoftBank says it has started mass production of robots, plans to acquire ABB's robotics business
According to Jiemian News, SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son revealed at the shareholders' meeting yesterday that robots for physical AI applications have begun mass production in a factory, and products will be officially released soon.
He said that SoftBank hopes to become the "overwhelming world number one robot company" by gathering robot companies from different vertical fields. Son also mentioned that SoftBank plans to complete the acquisition of the robotics business of Swiss industrial group ABB in 2026.
SoftBank acquired Boston Dynamics from Google in 2017, and then gradually sold its stake to Hyundai Motor Group from 2021. Bloomberg reported last year that SoftBank had agreed to acquire ABB's industrial robotics business for nearly $5.4 billion.
Continuous monthly subscription starting at 68 yuan, Doubao Professional Edition officially launched
Doubao announced yesterday that Doubao Professional Edition is officially launched, based on the Doubao 2.1 series of large models, providing higher quotas and office task modes for complex work and productivity scenarios.
- Standard plan: continuous monthly subscription at 68 yuan, includes all benefits of the free version, and provides more than 5 times the quota for office tasks, expert mode, etc.
- Enhanced plan: continuous monthly subscription at 200 yuan, 4 times the quota of the standard plan.
- Premium plan: continuous monthly subscription at 500 yuan, 10 times the quota of the standard plan.
The core new feature of Doubao Professional Edition is the office task mode connected to Doubao 2.1 Pro. With user authorization, this mode can operate the local computer and browser, handle local files, categorize files, process documents, fill forms, and collaborate across applications; it can also create, modify, and deploy web applications, supporting online application systems with backend databases. Free users can also experience the office task mode connected to Doubao 2.1 Turbo.
Doubao will also offer a 6-month student promotion for college students, providing more free service quotas after verification; when purchasing the standard plan, the student continuous monthly subscription price is 38 yuan.
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Dreame Yuhao: Will not actively lower prices, hopes to train every employee to become Jobs
Sina Tech reported that Dreame founder Yuhao said at the 2026 Dalian Summer Davos Forum yesterday that Dreame insists on a high-end route. As long as high-quality products are made, they dare to set high prices compared to the industry's top level.
We will never be a brand that actively lowers prices and destroys the pricing system in the industry.
He emphasized that the high-end route has allowed Dreame to open up both online and offline channels and promote the company's global layout simultaneously.
Yuhao mentioned that Dreame currently covers 120 countries and regions, with more than 10,000 offline physical outlets overseas; overseas market revenue accounts for 80% of total revenue.
He also said that the company reduces costs through technology reuse, increases revenue through global expansion, and improves single-product profits through high-end strategy, forming a mutually supportive business closed loop.
Yuhao also mentioned that the company has summarized hundreds of methodologies to help employees grow quickly, with some post-90s employees already managing teams of thousands. He said, Dreame hopes to train every employee to become "Jobs", and is willing to continuously increase engineers' income.
Starting at 29,900 yuan, Unitree R1 humanoid robot officially price reduced
Last night, Unitree Technology announced that the official price of its bipedal humanoid robot Unitree R1 was reduced from 39,900 yuan to 29,900 yuan.
The R1 weighs 25 kg, is equipped with 26 high-precision joints, supports voice and image multimodal interaction, and also provides development and customization capabilities for developers.
Tesla China infotainment system to integrate Doubao
According to Sina Tech, at the Volcanic Engine Power Conference held by ByteDance, Tesla China infotainment system confirmed integration of Doubao large model.
The report, citing blogger "Maizijun i", said that Tesla in mainland China will soon support controlling the vehicle by waking Doubao. Users can say "Hey Tesla" or press the voice button on the steering wheel to activate the voice assistant. Related interaction logic and model capabilities will be provided by Doubao assistant.
Notably, there are reports that in Tesla's beta software version 2026.14.11, the Doubao AI assistant entry has already appeared in the app list.
According to currently disclosed information, Doubao will mainly be responsible for vehicle control capabilities, including air conditioning, windows, navigation, etc.; DeepSeek will handle conversation Q&A and other interaction scenarios.
The report also mentioned that Tesla has deeply customized the relevant model capabilities to give mainland China owners a Grok-like in-vehicle AI experience, and is expected to support more intelligent vehicle command interactions.
Independent music platform Jamendo sues Nvidia for using music data to train audio models
Luxembourg-based independent music platform Jamendo yesterday filed a lawsuit against Nvidia in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, accusing Nvidia of using tens of thousands of tracks without authorization to train audio AI models, seeking at least 17.8 million euros in damages.
The complaint states that Nvidia used the MTG-Jamendo dataset in the development of audio models such as Fugatto and Audio Flamingo.
The dataset was built jointly by Jamendo and the Music Technology Research Group at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, containing approximately 55,600 tracks and metadata, with external licensing limited to non-commercial research and academic purposes.
Jamendo said that Nvidia's published papers have listed MTG-Jamendo as one of the training datasets, but no commercial license agreement was reached between the parties.
SK Hynix plans U.S. listing to raise $29.4 billion for AI memory capacity expansion
According to Bloomberg, SK Hynix plans to raise 45.45 trillion Korean won (about $29.4 billion) through a U.S. listing to expand production capacity to meet the growing demand for AI-related memory chips.
If calculated by fundraising scale, this deal will rank among the top five stock offerings in history, comparable in size to Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO.
Bloomberg said that as AI infrastructure construction accelerates, related companies in the industry chain have recently been accelerating fundraising. Previously, SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history, and Alphabet also plans to raise $85 billion for AI-related investment.
Anker Innovation starts subscription, maximum fundraising HK$4.632 billion
Anker Innovation has started subscription on June 23, planning to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 2. The company intends to globally offer 46.6328 million H-shares, with the maximum subscription price per share at HK$99.32, per lot of 100 shares, and maximum fundraising of HK$4.632 billion, about RMB 4.011 billion.
The prospectus shows that Anker Innovation's revenue in 2023, 2024, and 2025 was RMB 17.5 billion, 24.71 billion, and 30.5 billion respectively; gross profit in the same periods was RMB 7.48 billion, 10.645 billion, and 13.386 billion, with gross margins of 42.7%, 43.1%, and 43.9%.
In the first quarter of this year, Anker Innovation's revenue was RMB 7.6 billion, up 27% year-on-year; net profit was RMB 472 million, down 4.87% year-on-year; non-GAAP net profit was RMB 547 million, up 24% year-on-year.
EA Exec: AI has already improved studio creativity, can reduce development process friction
According to Eurogamer, EA's President of Enterprise Development Laura Miele said at the Game Business Live event during the Summer Game Fest that AI tools have already brought "real creativity improvements" in EA's studios, and some parts may shorten game development cycles.
When asked whether the rise of AI tools would lead to shorter development cycles, Miele said some parts "might". She expressed that she always wanted to help studio developers reduce process friction and assist them in creating representative works of their careers.
AI can help us reduce friction in pipelines, tools, and workflows, which is exciting. It removes some tedious work, and I see faster prototyping, faster creative output, and shorter, more efficient communication when reaching consensus on creativity.
Miele said that when some repetitive tasks in the development process are removed, there will be "real improvement" in creative work.
Crowdfunding starting at 2299 yuan, Xiaomi NAS officially released
Yesterday, Xiaomi announced the launch of its first NAS product, "Xiaomi Smart Storage", which has started crowdfunding reservations on Xiaomi Mall and Xiaomi Youpin.
Xiaomi Smart Storage adopts a dual-bay design and offers three versions:
- Entry level: 4TB (2TB×2), crowdfunding price 2299 yuan, MSRP 3499 yuan;
- Advanced level: 8TB (4TB×2), crowdfunding price 2899 yuan, MSRP 4499 yuan;
- Professional level: 16TB (8TB×2), crowdfunding price 4699 yuan, MSRP 6999 yuan.
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, integrates into Slack team workflows
Anthropic yesterday released the enterprise collaboration tool Claude Tag, integrated into Slack, allowing users to directly @Claude in channels or discussions.
Claude Tag can read the current conversation and channel context, split tasks, and call tools to complete data analysis, ticket sorting, meeting minutes, action item breakdown, code requirements conversion to engineering tasks, etc. Tasks can also continue for hours or days, and after completion, return to Slack to notify relevant members for acceptance.
Anthropic said that about 65% of the company's product code has been completed with the participation of Claude Tag.
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Qwen releases first native language world model Qwen-AgentWorld
The Qwen team yesterday released Qwen-AgentWorld, which is officially claimed as the first native language world model (LWM).
It can predict how the environment will react after an AI agent performs a certain action, covering seven domains: MCP, Search, Terminal, SWE, Web, OS, Android, using one model to simulate these interaction scenarios.
In terms of performance, Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B achieved the highest overall score of 58.71 on the supporting benchmark AgentWorldBench, surpassing GPT-5.4's 58.25; the open-source Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B scored 56.39, surpassing Claude Sonnet 4.6's 56.04.
💻 GitHub: github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-AgentWorld 🤗 Hugging Face: huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen-agentworld 👾 ModelScope: modelscope.cn/collections/Qwen/Qwen-AgentWorld
Tencent reportedly testing WeCom AI assistant "Dayuan"
According to Bloomberg, Tencent is testing an AI assistant in WeChat Work (WeCom), attempting to combine enterprise collaboration scenarios with AI agent capabilities.
Tencent's public relations director Zhang Jun posted on social media on Tuesday that the assistant is named "Dayuan" and has started grayscale testing for some users, using DeepSeek's latest V4 model as the underlying model.
Users can interact with it using natural language, allowing it to read group chats, emails, and schedule information in WeCom, assisting in analyzing customer feedback, organizing industry daily reports, drafting weekly reports, and other tasks.
NetEase Youdao open-sources Confucius4-TTS, 3-second audio can clone voice
NetEase Youdao yesterday announced the launch of the "Ziyue 4.0" TTS voice synthesis engine Confucius4-TTS. Officials claim it is the first open-source model in the industry that supports 14 languages cross-lingual without accent and can complete voice cloning without reference text.
Confucius4-TTS supports zero-shot voice cloning. After users provide 3 seconds of audio material, without reference text or prior training, the model can complete voice cloning; officials claim the similarity of cloned voice to the original exceeds 85%, and the accuracy of cloning tasks reaches 97%.
The model supports 14 languages including Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, etc. Officials say its key capability is cross-lingual pronunciation: after uploading Chinese audio, the AI can generate foreign language voices such as Japanese and English using that voice.
💻 GitHub: github.com/netease-youdao/Confucius4-TTS
"Splash screen ads gone" trends on Weibo, Baidu Maps, Gaode Maps, etc. reported to have removed splash screen ads
Recently, "splash screen ads gone" became a trending topic on Weibo. Many netizens and bloggers reported that apps like Baidu Maps, Gaode Maps, and NetEase Cloud Music have canceled splash screen ads.
The discussion originated from a video posted by a blogger. The blogger claimed that while driving and using a navigation app, due to the "shake to open" splash screen ad triggered by road bumps, the page jumped to a third-party platform, affecting driving safety. The controversy subsequently sparked a concentrated discussion among users about splash screen ads, accidental touch jumps, and ad countdown experiences.
Tests by Beijing Daily showed that among 20 commonly used shopping and social apps, 6 apps including Tieba, Weibo, Zhihu, Damai, and Mango TV still retain splash screen ads; 14 apps including Taobao, JD, Xiaohongshu, Pinduoduo, Xianyu, Douyin, and Dianping have no visible splash screen ads, opening directly to the home page.
Amazon places ads on ChatGPT for the first time, still refuses to open shopping data to AI
According to Business Insider, Amazon has started placing ads on ChatGPT, becoming one of the most notable retailers appearing in OpenAI's emerging advertising business. The ads direct users back to Amazon's own marketplace, where Amazon controls the shopping experience and transaction process.
E-commerce analyst Juozas Kaziukėnas said this move is "symbolic" because Amazon had basically not participated in AI shopping initiatives that allow third-party chatbots and AI agents to aggregate its product prices and inventory data.
A screenshot posted by Kaziukėnas on LinkedIn on Monday showed that when users search for coffee machines, ChatGPT recommends several products, followed by a sponsored Amazon ad titled "Top-Rated Kitchen Gear."
However, the report also points out the contradiction in Amazon's AI strategy: the company is willing to pay to reach ChatGPT's huge user base, but is still protecting its own shopping data, restricting AI systems from accessing and using these data.
Amazon has previously taken multiple measures to restrict AI crawling and data collection. Kaziukėnas said that last year Amazon stopped providing product feeds to Google Shopping and updated code to block multiple crawlers, including OpenAI; earlier this year, Amazon also won a court order to block Perplexity's AI agent.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film "Sheep in the Box" releases first official trailer
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Neon has released the first official trailer for Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film "Sheep in the Box."
The film is set in a near-future Japan: drone delivery, electric vehicles are popular, and generative AI has entered home life. A couple welcomes an AI child that looks like a little boy. He plays like a normal child during the day, planting trees, reading "The Little Prince," and at night sits back in the charging dock to shut down.
"Sheep in the Box" is Kore-eda's 17th feature film and was shortlisted for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Kore-eda won the Palme d'Or in 2018 for "Shoplifters." The film will be released in New York and Los Angeles on July 24.
Netflix releases poster for "The One Piece" remake
Netflix yesterday released the poster for the animated series remake of "One Piece," titled "The One Piece." The series will start from the beginning of the story, "Set sail with Luffy from the start on the Grand Line."
"The One Piece" is produced by WIT Studio and is planned to be released on Netflix in February next year. The project is positioned as a remake of the "One Piece" anime series, restarting the early adventures of the original.
