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Alibaba has provided a governance path for AI.
AI governance has been put on the agenda.
Research and development investments are close to the combined sum of BAT! Does ByteDance want to become China's OpenAI?
Zheshang stated that ByteDance has made huge investments in AI, with capital expenditures reaching 80 billion yuan in 2024, approaching the total of Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (about 100 billion yuan). Research and development investments significantly lead their peers; analogously, just as Microsoft is strongly investing in OpenAI, ByteDance in China may be comparable to OpenAI in the USA.
Breaking through 41 billion! The annual box office is still racing. Next year's Spring Festival lineup is "a big hit" | Year-end summary.
① The 2024 film market has entered the final sprint phase, and as this year's last major release period, the box office for the New Year's season has surpassed 2.1 billion yuan. The total box office for China Film Co., Ltd. in 2024 has reached 41.696 billion yuan; ② With the recovery of production capacity and the scheduling of blockbusters, the industry generally has a good expectation for the 2025 Spring Festival release period, with several listed film companies presenting "big hits" to compete in next year's Spring Festival.
The new leader of Ant Group has fired the first shot.
Major transformation.
ANT GROUP CO., LTD. makes another adjustment! Imitating Huawei, it implements a rotating presidency system, with a senior executive from Cainiao appointed as CFO.
1. ANT GROUP CO., LTD. established the Digital Payment business group to accelerate the development of innovative payment products and strengthen the payment infrastructure. 2. The Digital Payment business group and the Alipay business group have implemented a rotating presidency system. According to the latest news, Liu Zheng, CFO of Cainiao, has joined ANT GROUP CO., LTD. to succeed Han Xinyi as CFO.