Krypton Evening News｜Large U.S. companies bid farewell to layoffs and restarted recruitment; dozens of companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, and IBM established a new alliance to jointly ensure the security of AI; the "General Principles of Cost Accounting Model for the Photovoltaic Industry" was released to guide orderly competition in the industry

Large companies: HSBC Holdings will set up a global artificial intelligence center of excellence in Singapore and recruit more than 100 AI experts. HSBC Holdings announced on July 27 that it will establish a global artificial intelligence center of excellence (CoE) in Singapore in the second half of this year, aiming to develop AI capabilities that can be expanded to the group’s global network, and plans to recruit more than 100 AI experts. According to the statement, the center of excellence will initially focus on improving customer wealth management experience, introducing intelligent treasury solutions and developing AI-empowered digital payments. (Interface) Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 topped the OpenRouter global weekly and monthly rankings. 36 Krypton learned that on July 27, the latest data from OpenRouter showed that Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 topped the global weekly and monthly rankings of large model calls, becoming the only model with a global call volume exceeding 10T that week. Since May, the global call volume of MiMo-V2.5 has continued to rise, with the weekly token volume gradually rising from 1.46T to 10.46T, an increase of approximately 616% in two months. Meituan AI "Xiaotuan" has been fully upgraded. 36Kr learned that on July 27, Meituan announced a comprehensive upgrade of its local life AI native assistant "Xiaotuan". In addition to search, question and answer, and decision-making assistance, the new version of "Xiaotuan" further upgrades agent execution capabilities: after users raise their needs, "Xiaotuan" can combine real-time information to assist in completing various local life service-related operations such as placing orders, hailing taxis, and booking seats. Up to now, "Xiaotuan"'s information services have covered more than 2,800 cities across the country, completed more than 700 million business information verifications, and collected more than 1.3 billion user reviews. During this year’s May Day holiday, “small group” related services were exposed more than 3.9 billion times. South Korean trading giant partners with LG CNS to put accounts receivable on the blockchain in tokenization test POSCO International, South Korea’s largest trading company, has begun a pilot to tokenize trade receivables on the blockchain, a trial that is expected to speed up commercial payments among its global subsidiaries. The company generated $22.2 billion in revenue last year from businesses spanning steel, energy and battery materials.