OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Leaves OpenAI

The team in YooCare reported that on May 15, OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever announced his departure. Ilya Sutskever, who was instrumental in leading the coup against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ousting the CEO from the company and then changing his mind, said on Platform X, “Ilya is one of the greatest thinkers of his generation, a guiding light in the field, and a close friend.” Jakub Pachocki, who will take over as Chief Scientist, was previously responsible for the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, and has considerable expertise in large-scale reinforcement learning and deep learning optimization. Ilya revealed on the X platform that he will be working on a new project of great personal significance to him. In addition, Jan Leike, the head of the SuperAligned team, has resigned and been replaced by another co-founder, John Schulman. These changes signal a rift within OpenAI.

ONVO Unveils L60 Pure Electric Mid-sized SUV

NIO’s sub-brand ONVO has unveiled its first model, the L60, with a pre-sale price starting at 219,900 yuan, which is positioned as a family-friendly smart electric mid-sized SUV and is scheduled to go on sale in September.

The L60 measures 4828mm in length, 1930mm in width, 1616mm in height, and has a wheelbase of 2950mm. in terms of range performance, the official claim is that the car consumes 12.1 degrees of electricity per 100 kilometers, and it will be available in three different battery pack options with different range standards, namely 555km, 730km, and 1000+km. In addition, the L60 will be integrated into NIO’s charging and switching system to provide a better replenishment experience. In terms of intelligent driving, the L60 is equipped with NVIDIA Orin-X intelligent driving chip, seven 8-megapixel cameras, four 3-megapixel 360° cameras and 4D millimeter-wave radar, which strengthens the vehicle’s intelligent driving ability. At present, L60 has been opened for pre-sale, and consumers who pay a reservation deposit of 2,000 yuan can offset the purchase price of 6,000 yuan. Officials have not yet announced the specific configuration details of different models.

Some VMware Products Free for Individual Users

VMware, the virtualization powerhouse owned by Broadcom, announced on May 15 that its desktop virtualization software, VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro, are now available free of charge to individual users, with Workstation Pro available for Windows and Linux users and Fusion Pro designed for Mac computer users. Workstation Pro is available for Windows and Linux users, while Fusion Pro is designed for Mac users and supports the Apple M architecture and Intel CPUs. It’s important to note that while the software is free for personal users, organizations and businesses will still need to purchase a “paid commercial subscription,” but there is no difference in functionality between a personal license and a commercial subscription. In addition, VMware also announced that Workstation Player and Fusion Player are no longer available.

ByteDance Officially Launches “Doubao Big Model” Family

At the Spring 2024 Volcano Engine Force Conference, ByteDance officially announced that its “Doubao Big Model” family is now available to the public. The family includes several models, including General Model Pro, General Model Liti, Role Playing Model, Speech Synthesis Model, Voice Reproduction Model, Speech Recognition Model, Text-to-Graph Model and Function Call Model. At the same time, ByteDance announced that the pricing of the big models has been significantly reduced, and the pricing of the main model of Beanbag in the enterprise market is only 0.0008 Yuan/thousand Tokens, which means that 0.8 cents can process more than 1,500 Chinese characters.

Dreame Launches New Products

On May 15th, Dreame launched six new products at its global launch event, including the H20 series and the H30 series.

Different sub-products are based on different positioning, they have different focus on parameters and basic functions, and some or all of them are equipped with the following features:

Avoid Hair Entanglement: With Dreame’s pioneering technology, the teeth of the comb are close to the brush to comb the hair in real time and cut the hair entangled in the brush with the cutting edge;

100°C Boiling Water Self-Cleaning: The water is heated to 100°C by the PTC at the bottom, using the hot water to break down and dissolve the dirt on the brush, effectively removing stubborn stains with the complex cleaning process;

5-minute whisper-quiet constant temperature drying: using 600W high efficiency heating element and 16000 rpm high speed axial fan, the airflow can reach 54m³/h, through 75°C heat flow to achieve rapid drying of the brush and sterilization, effectively preventing the growth of mold.

Apple Announces New Assist Features

On May 16, Apple announced new accessibility features that will be available later this year, including: eye tracking, music haptics, vocal shortcuts, listening to atypical speech, vehicle motion alerts, CarPlay accessibility, and upcoming accessibility features for visionOS. In addition, Apple has updated existing assist features.

These include eye tracking to help users with disabilities use their iPad or iPhone through eye movements; Music Haptics will give hearing impaired users a new way to experience music on their iPhone using the haptic engine; Vocal Shortcuts add custom words to Siri to launch shortcuts and complete complex tasks; Vehicle Motion Cues help mitigate motion sickness when using an iPhone or iPad in a moving vehicle; and Voice Control in Carplay lets users use CarPlay and control apps using only their voice. Vehicle Motion Cues help mitigate motion sickness when using an iPhone or iPad in a moving vehicle; and Voice Control in Carplay lets users use CarPlay and control apps using only their voice.

Apple says they are committed to inclusive design, putting accessibility at the center of the design of their hardware and software.