🚗 Toyota puts Tesla on the backfoot with Chinese AI fleet
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Martin Crowley & Arturo Ferreira
August 07, 2023
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🧠 News: Toyota rolls out AI fleet in China
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Our Report: Toyota, in partnership with autonomous driving startup PonyAI, plans to mass produce robotaxis in China. How will Tesla respond?
🔑 Key Points:
The venture will receive investments exceeding 140M from Toyota, PonyAI and Chinese state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group.
PonyAI has made significant progress in developing self-driving cars, launching robotaxi services in multiple Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou.
Toyota and Pony.ai have a partnership history dating back to 2019, with Toyota investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the startup.
The venture supports the growth of the connected car industry and helps Toyota stay competitive amid increasing pressure from local rivals in the Chinese market.
🤨 Why you should care: The robotaxi market's expansion in China underscores the country's ambition, while, conversely, Tesla is under pressure from US lawmakers for their FSD ambitions. Who will come out on top?
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The Brand Strategy prompt—great for marketers.
“I want you to act as a world-class brand strategist specializing in corporate identity and messaging. My first request is for you to generate a company profile, here's some context:
Company Name
Business Industry
Target Audience
Business Description
Formatting guidelines: "Structured as: Company Description, Mission Statement, Vision Statement, and Core Values, MTP Slogan." I need you to write content with a good balance of “perplexity” and “burstiness”
The Twitter Brainstorm Prompt
“Hey Bing, I want you to help me brainstorm content ideas for Twitter that I can use to engage with my audience. I am in industry X, I want to use a tongue-in-cheek tone of voice, and I want you to base the content ideas on last week’s news cycle. Lead me through a series of questions and answers to refine my social content offering”
“A scene from a science fiction movie, like Blade Runner, featuring a futuristic cityscape in the rain, with flying cars, neon lights, and people in long coats hurrying by.”
With a massive step in the right direction TikTok users in Europe will soon be able to opt out of personalized feeds, thanks to changes made in compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA).
Instead of personalized content, users will see popular videos globally and locally. Will TikTok continue to engage users to the same degree without a FYP?
Tinder is testing an AI-driven tool to curate the most suitable photographs for users' profiles, thereby mitigating the anxiety associated with selecting the "ideal" image.
Coinciding with these advancements, the emergence of AI influencers has garnered considerable attention, where AI influencers have started charging $10K USD for promotional content.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair, Gary Gensler, is shifting regulatory focus from cryptocurrency to AI, highlighting its potential risks, especially in finance.
Gensler has proposed a regulatory framework for AI use in finance to balance innovation and risk.
🤖 Lex Fridman releases new podcast with AI researcher—Joscha Bach
🇦🇹 Austrian ed-tech firm secures $95M to transform education with AI
📰 Reuters uses AI to enhance, rather than replace, journalism
💎 LK-99 drama continues, researchers skeptical
😆 AI takes center stage at Edinburgh Fringe
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