On June 6, according to Jin10 Data, it is reported that the pure electric Mercedes-Benz CLA model has confirmed the use of the NVIDIA Orin chip and will be equipped with the advanced autonomous driving solution provided by Momenta, which does not rely on high-precision maps, to achieve urban navigation and assisted driving functions. This car is planned to be put into production in April 2025. Regarding this news, the reporter has reached out to Mercedes-Benz for verification, but has not received a response so far.

On June 3rd, Jins is pleased to announce that Baidu Maps has released a video of the Tesla V20 version and announced that Baidu Maps' lane-level navigation will soon be available on Tesla.

On May 23rd, Jin Shi Data reported that the OPPO Reno12 series was released, equipped with the flagship chips Tianji 9200+ Star Speed Edition and Tianji 8250 Star Speed Edition, and supports the "live photo" function for the first time. In terms of AI applications, the OPPO Reno12 series has added functions such as "stranger removal", AI cutout, and AI closed-eye repair. Among them, Xiao Bu Travel Assistant, based on the cooperation between OPPO and Baidu Maps, jointly launched the industry's first AI travel big model cooperation.

Golden Ten Data reported on April 30 that Baidu revealed that from May 1, 2024, Baidu Maps will fully open cooperative lane-level map data (referred to as LD map) for the advanced assisted driving industry. Baidu Maps LD Light Map has covered 360 prefecture-level cities and 3.6 million kilometers of high-speed and urban roads across the country, and has completed the advanced assisted driving verification and fully unmanned driving verification of relevant car companies. The newly released lane-level navigation product based on LD map has also been launched on the Baidu Map APP.

Coin Network Report: Coin Network reports that Decentralization Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) is leveraging Blockchain technology to enable users to take ownership of their data. Tokens incentivize users to provide services in the real world using physical infrastructure and systems. A popular example of a DePIN project today is Helium, a wireless Internet of things (IoT) network. Helium currently runs on Solana Blockchain, a decision Sigel noted was made due to the high-performance nature of the network, which can handle high throughput and a large developer ecosystem. In 2019, Helium launched a Decentralization Cellular Network and rapidly expanded its global reach. According to Helium Explorer, there are currently 392,090 hotspots around the world. In addition to Helium, another DePIN project built on top of Solana and generating interest is Hivemapper, which wants to completely reinvent the mapping industry. Gabe Nelson, head of operations and marketing at Hivemapper, said the company's founder and CEO, Ariel Seidman, has worked in the mapping industry for long 20 years. During this time, one of the big problems Seidman wanted to solve was finding ways to create maps in a cost-effective, scalable way.

PANews reported on March 27 that, according to Cointelegraph, at a court hearing on March 26, Brian Glueckstein, a lawyer representing crypto exchange FTX, filed an application with Delaware Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey, asking him to dismiss investors' claims against the so-called "Sam Coin", saying that the value of these coins should be zero in the ongoing bankruptcy case. These tokens are closely related to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and include the native token of the travel platform Maps (MAPS), decentralized financial broker Oxygen (OXY), decentralized exchange Serum (SERUM), and the Boba (BOBA) token. Glueckstein explained that experts have carefully analysed the value of the assets at the filing date to determine a reasonable value discount, and that the valuation of these digital asset claims by customers is based on a market that has never existed and will never exist. FTX's valuation expert, Sabrina Howel, concluded that since the company holds more than 95% of the OXY and MAP tokens (which were once closely associated with SBF), it will take decades to liquidate them. Based on their analysis, FTX's claims related to the MAPS and OXY tokens (worth more than $600 million at current exchange rates) should be considered worthless. At the same time, claims related to the SERUM token (worth $509 million) should be discounted by about 58%. However, FTX customers who still hold these "Samcoins" have raised objections to these valuations and demanded that FTX's lawyers' estimates be reversed. Clients claim that the total value of these four digital assets is still over $1.1 billion. Judge Dorsey said it was difficult to formally quantify the value of cryptocurrencies and described digital assets as having "no intrinsic value". He listened to the arguments of both sides and said he would consider the matter before making a ruling on how to estimate the value of the disputed cryptoassets.

GOLD 5-DAY EXTRAPOLATION 8:32 2018.XX CANCELLED BECAUSE THERE'S NO BOUNCE, YET a) so it was supposed to be 2028 to short b) but it has not made that move yet c) so what if it does that move later (like within 4-5 hours) d) that means I NEED NEW MAPS e) I do not have time to do that today bc of kids' dr appointments f) so I HAVE NO POSITION OR OPINION ON PRICE RIGHT NOW an hour ago Comment: g) BTW.... so there's no misunderstanding h) a late move up here IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY BEARISH OK? i) usually that's true most of the time for the current short term trend j) I AM NOT SURE THAT'S TRUE NOW 20 minutes ago Comment: 9:01 AM, I had a second to look at this and that is still true a) means if it bounces to 2028 you should short b) but it's only 2019.xx now can it make 2028? c) so micro trend maps under (1-, 2-, 3-min bars etc...) say that d) bulls have about 4 hours left before they are exhausted e) and it looks like they can tag 2026 f) I will not be live to say when it tops, so that I can't help e) so the issue is if there's no bump higher, IS THERE VALUE TO SHORT? f) bc the the sideways zig zag zone IS NOT THROUGH g) in chart at top, the short I saw was for late tonight or Friday morning h) in the first notes I said that chart was "generic" not detailed map i) and that I needed to reconfirm Thursday night (tonight) to be sure 1) the move is right 2) there's actual value to take action j) so that's it k) I will post a note here and there if there's something worth posting about l) but again 2028+ looks like a good short here

According to a report by Ebang Power on January 4, Pic Copilot, the AI image design tool of Ali International Station, won the second place on the weekly list of new products on the day of its launch on the overseas product list. Compared with other AI image generation products on the market, Pic Copilot's biggest advantage is "multilingual" and "understanding e-commerce", which can quickly generate marketing selling point maps that adapt to different national markets and different languages to improve the click-through rate of goods. At present, Pic Copilot has launched features such as one-click cutout, image translation, background image generation, etc., and has 6 language capabilities. In the launch test in overseas markets, the click-through rate of product selling point maps generated by Pic Copilot increased by more than 7% on average.

According to the news of IT House on December 25, Google Research recently issued an article introducing the application results of a "traffic diversion" AI model created by Open Source simulation software SUMO. It is reported that Google researchers used SUMO software to build a basic model of the T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field areas in Seattle, and used the information provided by Google Maps such as "congestion volume", "traffic light location", and "average road speed" to draw a complete heat map. After that, the research team divided the heat map into different areas and introduced a "user behavior model" and route suggestions provided by the Seattle Police Department to build a "traffic diversion" model that assigns the best route to car owners. Google researchers, in collaboration with the Seattle Department of Transportation, applied the AI model to a number of large-scale events in August and November 2023, reducing congestion time by an average of 7 minutes and improving traffic efficiency by 30% with a "dynamic guidance display."

According to IT House, Google officially introduced a new AI model called Translatotron 3, which can realize simultaneous translation of speech-to-speech without any parallel speech data. Google launched the Translatotron S2 ST system in 2019, launched its 2nd version in July 2021, and in a paper published on May 27, 2023, announced that it was deploying a new method to train Translatotron 3. According to the researchers, Translatotron 2 already delivers superior translation quality, robustness, and speech naturalness, while Translatotron 3 enables "the first end-to-end model of fully unsupervised direct speech-to-speech translation." Traditionally, S2 ST has been solved by a cascading approach of automatic speech recognition + machine translation + text-to-speech synthesis, but Translatotron 3 relies on a novel end-to-end architecture that maps the source language speech directly to the target language, rather than relying on intermediate text representations. The Translatotron 3 model can also be used to create tools to help people with language impairments, or to develop personalized language learning tools that are more engaging and effective.

According to Jiemian News, Optek announced on December 1 that it released the "Optek AI Cloud", which uses artificial intelligence and big data models as the underlying technical support, drones and cameras as hardware support, and digital twin maps as the fulcrum, expanding the three-light comparison, inspection report, defect elimination, inverter monitoring, data prediction and other functions The current detection process mainly starts from hardware data collection such as route planning and independent detection, and after transmitting the obtained data to the Optek AI cloud, through the establishment of digital twin maps, AI Defect analysis, final report generation, and completion of locating and defect elimination.

According to a report by DoNews on November 27, the 2023 Taobao Tmall Merchant and Ecological Partner Conference was recently held in Hangzhou. At the meeting, Taobao and Tmall released a series of AI tools and services for merchants. Taobao announced that merchants can use AI to open stores on the Taobao Tmall platform with one click, supporting rapid product delivery, intelligent decoration and detail generation, and completing new store creation and product sales within 5 minutes. In addition, Taobao merchants are already experimenting with intelligent tools and services such as AI mapping and AI copywriting, and can operate their stores more efficiently and at a lower cost by quickly generating images of various products and automatically publishing new ones. Taobao also said that from 2024, it will release ten intelligent tools and services to all merchants, including AI scene maps, AI retouching, AI model maps, AI store opening, intelligent weekly reports, business consulting, automatic new releases, document interpretation, automatic image expansion, title expansion, etc.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on November 14, the new version of Google Maps has added a new AR feature, Lens in Maps, which can help mark objects and places through AI. Users can ask AI to tell you more about pointing to a place and how to get there. AI will overlay relevant information and directions on the camera view in the form of AR augmented reality.

According to IT Home on November 8, the Google Maps app ushered in a series of feature updates last month, including new artificial intelligence (AI) features, navigation improvements, and more. However, Google hasn't stopped, with the latest news showing that Google Maps is working on a chatbot. The AndroidAuthority website has discovered new code in the Google Maps v11.105 beta install, and these strings indicate that the "convocontribs" feature is related to chatbots. But there's no mention of AI capabilities here, and it's hard to predict exactly how the chatbot will be used. The website asked Google officials about the situation, but has not yet received a reply.

As a dedicated Web3 event platform, Web3event provides professional event screening and display functions, and users can use posters, maps, lists, and filters to explore activities. Web3event collects and aggregates more than 200 Web3 events during Devconnect, the Ethereum Developers Conference, and is featured on the Ethereum Foundation's official blog page.

According to the news of IT Home on November 8, vivo's operating system OriginOS announced that it had reached a strategic cooperation with Baidu Maps to jointly build a multi-dimensional travel service system with systems, atomic capabilities, and scene intelligence services, and promote the system experience of a new generation of artificial intelligence travel services. It was previously reported that at the 2023 vivo developer conference earlier this month, OriginOS 4 was officially released, bringing the "Blue Heart Small V" based on the blue heart large model, and cooperating with AutoNavi Map and Jet Parking to bring "off-library navigation optimization", and also support full-link parking assistant.

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong, XLang Labs, Sea AI Lab, and Salesforce recently jointly created OpenAgents, an open-source agent framework for real-world productivity tools, and open-sourced the full-stack code, according to Heart of the Machine. It is reported that OpenAgents uses "large language models" (LLMs)-based technology and full-stack engineering code to try to approximate the functions of ChatGPT Plus, which can not only execute Python/SQL code, skillfully call tools, but also find maps on the Internet to make posts.

According to the IT House news on October 26, Google announced that the Google Maps App will usher in a series of feature updates, including new artificial intelligence features, navigation improvements and more. It is said that the new version of Google Maps will combine AI to bring more accurate search results to users. It will also display photo results based on pictures shared by other users. For example, searching for "animal latte," "find the best animal latte art," or "take the dog to the pumpkin field" will get the most immediate priority results. Google says the results are based on billions of photos analyzed by the Google Maps community. The new feature will be available this week in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with a gradual expansion to more countries and regions. In addition, Google is expanding its Lens capabilities (formerly known as real-time view search), which helps users locate based on their surroundings, using AR and AI to show the right path and assist users in finding the right direction. This feature will expand to more than 50 new cities later this week, including Austin, Las Vegas, Rome, São Paulo and Taipei.

According to interface news reports, Tomcat announced on October 26 that the company's operating income in the first three quarters was 1.028 billion yuan, down 18.38% year-on-year; net profit attributable to owners was 200 million yuan, down 49.94% year-on-year; Basic earnings per share were 0.057 yuan per share. In the direction of AI products, the company's R&D teams at home and abroad are promoting the development and testing of three AI application products. Among them, the multimodal AI Tom cat products cooperated by the company's domestic R&D team and Westlake Xinchen have initially realized multiple functions such as photo recognition, English oral enlightenment, interest guidance, popular science education, AI student maps, AI generated picture books, and situational dialogue; The first AI mobile game "TalkingBenAI" developed by the company's overseas team opened the first round of overseas testing in Slovenia, Cyprus, South Africa and other regions on August 28, 2023; The Tom Cat storytelling AI product, developed by the company's domestic team, is scheduled to start the first round of testing in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Golden Finance reported that the NFT project Memeland issued a post saying that the allowed list, maps, precious goods and potions NFT snapshots participating in the "Fire Sale" will be taken at 11 o'clock tonight, and users who purchase NFT after the snapshot is taken are not authorized to participate in the "Fire Sale", Memeland said that the current map, precious goods and potion NFT generation has been suspended, and when it will resume will be notified separately.

PANews news on October 20, according to Decryp, NFT-based digital real estate trading game Upland announced the completion of a $7 million Series A deferred financing, led by EOS Network Ventures, the injection will be used to add more features to the game, allowing players to purchase digital locations on real-world maps. Upland also plans to strengthen its marketing strategy, enable third-party development tools, and launch an Ethereum token linked to its current in-game utility token. Inspired by the board game Monopoly, Upland began in 2019 as a property trading game that allows players to buy and sell digital versions of real-world properties among other activities. It has since added cafes, treasure hunts and vehicles, and will host fashion week events in the future. Previously, in November 2021, Upland completed a $18 million Series A financing with a valuation of $300 million, led by Animoca Brands.

Golden Finance reported that blockchain real estate collection and trading game Upland announced on Friday that it had received a $7 million Series A deferred financing. The deferred financing, led by EOS Network Ventures, is the fund's first crypto gaming investment and follows its first $18 million Series A round in 2021. The funding will be used to add more features to location-based games, allowing players to purchase digital locations on real-world maps. Upland also plans to strengthen its marketing strategy, enable third-party development tools, and launch an Ethereum token linked to its current in-game utility token.

Upland, a real estate transaction chain, completed a $7 million Series A expansion financing, led by EOS Network Ventures. This round of funding will be used to add game features to support players in purchasing digital land on real-world maps. Upland is based on EOS and has plans to launch the token on Ethereum. Upland says it has more than 3 million registered players, including about 30,000 daily active users, and has signed cooperation agreements with large sports organizations such as FIFA and the National Football League Players Association. （Decrypt）