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DeepSeek, Kimi, and Qwen compared on work tasks: a test of five Chinese AI assistants
In a new comparison, five popular Chinese AI assistants — Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao, Kimi, and DeepSeek — were tested on the tasks most common in everyday office work.
Citrini Research: how AI could collapse the intelligence premium and shake up the economy
Citrini Research describes a scenario in which AI turns intellectual labor into a mass commodity, puts pressure on middle-class wages, and triggers a painful repricing of the economy.
Ideal L9 Livis: Li Xiang Transforms Crossover into Robot to Save Company (Again)
Remember the days when the pinnacle of Chinese SUV dreams was a built-in refrigerator, a massive television for rear passengers, and a soft ottoman?
Musk's Space Data Center: A Million Satellites Against the Laws of Physics and Common Sense
Imagine the sky soon becoming not just a place for stars, but a giant humming motherboard. Elon Musk is once again making the industry nervously scratch its head, announcing plans to launch a million…
Chinese AI went to the provinces: why money doesn't buy love
Golden rush in the artificial intelligence world has shifted from the glittering skyscrapers of Shenzhen to dusty counties and small towns of China.
Intel Core Ultra: Why Your Laptop Will No Longer Sound Like a Vacuum Cleaner
Last year, we all lived in a rather strange illusion. We genuinely seemed to think that our computers had suddenly become smarter, learned to understand context, and generate meaning.
Lessons from Tokyo: Why the AI Hype Risks Repeating the 1990s
Do remember how at the end of the eighties the world was absolutely convinced that the future spoke exclusively in Japanese?
Tesla versus China: why Musk is sending Model S into retirement for robots
Elon Musk has officially announced that the era of Model S and Model X is coming to an end. During the latest investor call, he used the term "honorable discharge," stating that production of these…
Metals 'turned green': why the collapse in copper and gold prices is actually an AI story
The precious metals and industrial raw materials market decided to stage a "high dive" right after hitting historical highs.
Battle of Chinese Quants: How Algorithms Extract 28% Returns from Chaos
Imagine a printing press that works not on paper and ink, but on pure code and statistical anomalies.
AI is Eating Your Memory: Why New PCs Are Becoming a Luxury
You've probably heard that AI is the new oil. But nobody warned you that to get this oil, we'd have to drain the gas from our own cars.
Doubao: Why AI Smartphones in China Die Before Birth
Attempts to create a real "AI smartphone" in China recently resemble not a technological breakthrough, but a protracted positional war, where the main enemies are not the absence of computational…
Silver Worth More Than Gold: Why Metal Is Going Crazy and What Chips Have to Do With It
While we enthusiastically discussed new features of large language models and speculated about when OpenAI would finally release Sora, the metals markets experienced a quiet yet extremely aggressive…
Greenland deal: Trump seizes resources for AI industry in exchange for tariffs
Remember 2019, when the world's media laughed at Donald Trump's idea to buy Greenland? Back then, it seemed like a ridiculous joke from a businessman who confused state governance with a game of…