Now DeepSeek, a Chinese AI skunkworks, says its R1 AI model cost just $6 million to develop. Tests show that it performs about as well on many tasks as the newest systems from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
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FOREVERLAND: TECH CAN’T MATCH THE BEST LONGEVITY BOOSTER
Bio hackers and gurus spending and investing on venture capital projects to produce radical tech-based life extension, are indeed becoming commonplace news in 2025, as we had forecast in our 2025 Top Trend, “WELCOME TO FOREVERLAND” (2 Jan 2025).
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TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
Investors began to return to commercial properties in the latter part of 2024 but are still avoiding office buildings as a category, the Financial Times reported.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Italian insurance giant Generali and French bank Groupe BPCE, which owns the Natixis financial services company, will merge their asset management operations in a joint venture, creating an entity managing an estimated $1.98 trillion.
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CHINESE EV MAKERS TAKE EU TO COURT OVER TARIFFS
BYD, Geely, and SAIC, three leading Chinese makers of electric vehicles (EVs), have formally complained to the European Union’s Court of Justice regarding new tariffs the European Commission (EC) imposed on the companies’ products in October.
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CHINA’S ECONOMY SHRINKS UNEXPECTEDLY IN JANUARY
This month, China's factory production has contracted the most since August, the country’s official purchasing managers index showed.
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TOP TREND 2025, THE TRUMP CARD: TRUMP DEMANDS LOWER OIL PRICES
In 23 January comments to executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos, U.S. president Donald Trump urged oil-producing nations to lower oil prices and that central banks cut their interest rates “immediately” afterward.
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GETTING “OBJECTIVE” WITH ANTHROPIC’S CLAUDE
As AI companies continue to attempt to build AI which can outperform humans, driving the lion’s share of profit and power to themselves and companies that best exploit the technology, it’s interesting to see different “anthropometric” gambits.
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POPULAR SCIENCE NOW ECHOES LONGTIME TRENDS JOURNAL ENERGY REALISM FORECASTS
Tech and energy sector experts are suddenly being more open about energy realism: ie, the fact that hydrocarbon fuels (long misnamed “fossil” fuels) remain the only practical path to supplying sufficient energy for major economies.