Meta Showcases AI Features for Mixed Reality, Including Orion AR Glasses and Ray-Ban Upgrades Meta unveiled AI-powered features for its mixed and virtual reality products at its Connect event. The Orion AR Glasses stole the spotlight with holographic displays and hands-free communication. Meta also introduced upgrades to its Ray-Ban glasses and Meta AI.

Golden Ten Data on May 1, according to the Associated Press reported on April 30 local time, the National Shorts and Space Administration (NASA) released the clearest part of the image of the Horsehead Nebula taken by the Webb shorts telescope so far, and the image even showed the "mane" in detail. It is reported that the Horsehead Nebula is located in the constellation Orion, about 1,300 light-years from Earth.

PANews reported on March 27 that financial giant HSBC (HSBA) is tokenizing gold for everyday investors in Hong Kong, and claims to be the first bank to create blockchain-based real-world assets for the retail market, according to CoinDesk. HSBC said in a press release on Wednesday that HSBC gold tokens were minted on the bank's Orion digital asset platform and can be traded through HSBC online banking and the HSBC Hong Kong mobile app. In November last year, HSBC announced the launch of a tokenised gold product planned as part of the bank's new digital asset custody platform, created in partnership with Swiss cryptocurrency custodian Metaco.

PANews reported on March 8 that, according to the official blog, Orion Protocol, an exchange aggregation platform, announced that it had received a strategic investment from DWF Labs, and DWF Labs agreed to lock up its purchased ORN tokens for 12 months. The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed. In addition, Orion is about to rebrand itself as a DeFi infrastructure – Lumia. Orion Protocol said a series of partnerships and integrations will be announced over the next 30 days with the aim of increasing the utility, adoption and value of ORNs. Previously, in February last year, it was reported that Orion Protocol lost about $3 million in the attack.

PANews reported on February 8 that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced the successful issuance of digital green bonds worth about HK$6 billion, which is the world's first multi-coin digital bond issuance, including Hong Kong dollars, RMB, US dollars and euros. The bonds have a two-year maturity and are priced at HK$2 billion (3.800%), RMB1.5 billion (2.900%), US$200 million (4.749%) and EUR80 million (3.647%). The offering attracted subscriptions from institutional investors worldwide, including major asset managers, banks, insurance companies and private banks, as well as non-financial institution companies. This is the second issuance of digital bonds, following the first issuance of Token Green Bonds by the Hong Kong SAR Government in February 2023. The digital green bond offering breaks new ground on several fronts: expanding the scope of investors participating through existing market infrastructure, simplifying the process of issuing bonds in a digitally native format, introducing standardized elements through the adoption of the International Capital Market Association's Bond Data Taxonomy (BDT), and integrating green bond disclosure with digital asset platforms to improve the transparency and accessibility of information. CMU, the clearing and settlement system of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), has partnered with the HSBC Orion digital asset platform to deliver the first multi-coin digital bond offering and Hong Kong's first digital local bond offering. At the end of last year, it was reported that Hong Kong hired five banks to explore the issuance of digital green bonds on Distributed Ledger technology platforms.

According to a report by Sina Technology on January 21, at Fu Sheng's 2024 New Year's AI class and Orion Star Enterprise Application Large Model Conference, Fu Sheng, Chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and Chairman of Orion Star, announced the release of the Orion Star Large Model, which is specially designed for enterprise applications. According to reports, the Orion Star Large Model has achieved the effect of 100 billion parameter large model through 14 billion parameters, which is fine-tuned for seven major application fields such as quality education, and can run on the Computing Power of 1,000 yuan graphics card.

According to Sina Technology's news on the afternoon of January 21, at the 2024 Fu Sheng's New Year's AI class and Orion Star Enterprise Application Model Conference held this afternoon, Fu Sheng, Chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and Chairman of Orion Star, said in his speech that there must be a gap between the comprehensiveness of the Orion Star Enterprise Application Model and GPT-4, but it can surpass GPT-4 in application scenarios, which has been tested. He said that the next step of Orion Star will not be to train a large model of 100 billion, but to ensure the performance of the 10 billion parameter model, and complete the continuous improvement of its basic capabilities through a new architecture, which is a large model.

According to Sina Technology on January 21, at the 2024 Fu Sheng's New Year's AI class and Orion Star Enterprise Application Model Conference, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, had a dialogue with Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and chairman of Orion Star. Second, it must be sharp, and it must be deep from a small scene, with heavy vertical and large depth. Instead of upgrading the architecture and grafting technology to OpenAI, this is the right direction, and it will definitely be eliminated with OpenAI's technological upgrade. Third, there must be a little long-termism, AI is hot, but don't be anxious, there may be some killer applications in 2024, but there may not be particularly large applications, so take a long-term view.

According to a report by Jiemian News on December 22, Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and chairman of Orion Star, said at the 2023 Exploration Conference that 2023 is the first year and wave year of AI, and everyone is investing in hundreds of billions of large models in the first half of the year. 2024 must be the year of the wave of AI large-scale model applications, and there will definitely be many applications like Didi and Meituan Takeaway when mobile smartphones came out, which did not appear in the past era. Fu Sheng said that as a business entrepreneur, we should realize that only using a general model can not completely solve the company's own problems. The core competitiveness of a startup company is private data, which is not the data written in the ERP system before, but the process of various decision-making processes and various cognitive iterations in the company is private data.

According to IT Home on December 24, recently, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed in an interview that the company may show a prototype of advanced AR glasses codenamed "Orion" in 2024. It is reported that Meta has been deeply involved in the AR field for at least eight years, investing tens of billions of dollars, hoping to create a revolutionary product comparable to the iPhone. However, last year the company announced that it was abandoning its plans for mass production of the Orion glasses, instead offering them to select developers and as a sample to showcase future AR technology. In the interview, Bosworth confirmed previous media reports, saying that a small number of Meta employees will begin testing the glasses internally next year, and said that "I think there is a good chance that people will have the opportunity to experience it in 2024". According to reports, Meta aims to launch this AR glasses product around 2027.

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AI New Intelligence News, Tianyancha App shows that recently, Beijing Orion Star Technology Co., Ltd. applied for the registration of the trademarks "Orion Large Language Model" and "Orion Large Model", which are internationally classified as advertising sales, scientific instruments, and website services, and the current trademark status is pending substantive examination. It is reported that Orion Star is an artificial intelligence robot service solution provider invested by Cheetah Mobile.

PANews reported on November 8 that according to Bloomberg, HSBC will cooperate with Metaco, a technology company owned by Ripple Labs, to provide institutional customers with digital asset custody services such as tokenized securities, which is expected to be launched in 2024. The offering will complement HSBC's digital asset issuance platform, called HSBC Orion, as well as the bank's tokenised gold issuance system, which was launched last week. Previously, it was reported in May that Ripple acquired crypto custody company Metaco for $250 million.

HSBC Middle East is partnering with the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange (ADX) to explore fixed-income securities, including tokenized bonds, with the aim of using the bank's digital asset platform, HSBC Orion, to issue digital bonds and list on the ADX, Golden Finance reported. Abdulla Salem Alnuaimi, CEO of ADX, said, "We believe that digital assets will grow in importance in the future and that ADX intends to be at the forefront of this innovation. ADX and HSBC will explore a framework to enable digital assets such as digital bonds to be available on HSBC's digital asset platform, Orion, and listed on ADX.

HSBC Orion, a blockchain bond tokenization platform launched by HSBC, has tokenized the ownership of physical gold held in its London vaults. Mark Williamson, head of foreign exchange and commodities partnerships and proposals, said in an interview that the new system creates digital tokens that represent gold bars, which can then be traded through the bank's single dealer platform. [Bloomberg]

PANews reported on November 1 that according to Bloomberg, Mark Williamson, global head of foreign exchange and commodity partnerships and proposals at HSBC Holdings Plc, said in an interview that HSBC has launched a platform to use distributed ledger technology to tokenize the ownership of physical gold held in its London vaults, and the new system creates a digital token representing gold bars. Transactions can then be made through the bank's single dealer platform. Mr Williamson said the use of blockchain technology makes the process "faster and less hassle" as customers can more easily track the gold they own through the platform, and even the serial number of each bar. He added that HSBC plans to eventually expand its system to include other precious metals. HSBC's gold system is part of the bank's broader push to use blockchain technology, which includes an existing platform for issuing and storing assets such as digital bonds, called HSBC Orion. One token on the new system is equivalent to 0.001 troy ounces, while London bars are equivalent to 400 troy ounces.

Golden Finance reported that according to Ma Zhiping, head and general manager of HSBC Global Banking Asia Pacific, the Orion platform launched by HSBC allows issuers to issue electronic bonds in Luxembourg through blockchain, and can trade in multiple currencies on the platform. In the future, Or will support cross-border transactions. Ma Zhiping also pointed out that in February this year, HSBC assisted the Hong Kong government by issuing tokenized green bonds with a total value of HK$800 million, which combined the three major elements of digital finance, ESG, and wealth investment, fully demonstrating the future development of the bank. (Letter)