In the 12 months ending 30 November, Chinese open-source AIs made up 17 percent of downloaded platforms, while AIs from major U.S. developers such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI accounted for 15.8 percent, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hugging Face, an open-source AI startup.
Volkswagen can develop and produce new electric vehicles (EVs) in China for half the cost of doing the same work in its native Germany, the company says, citing mature EV supply chains, easier access to batteries, lower labor costs, and shortened timelines from design through production.
The Europeans are continuing their military buildup, this time announcing that they secured nearly all the funding needed for the European Resilience from Space project that aims to counter the perceived threat from Russia and China.
Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s president, said last week that he will seek an additional $40 billion in military spending—on top of its regular military budget—to improve its defenses in the event of an invasion by China.
“China is going to win the AI race,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chip maker, said last week in a Financial Times interview during the news service’s Future of AI Summit in London.
As China’s government showers money on AI developers and chip designers, local authorities are offering grants to pay as much as half the energy cost of the industry’s data centers.
President Donald Trump posted on social media last week that the U.S. has more nuclear weapons than any rival and bragged that they are in prime condition—but due to “testing program[s]” in other countries, he said he ordered the Department of War “to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
On 23 October, China’s top government leaders pledged to speed the country’s progress toward self-sufficiency in cutting-edge technologies as trade tensions with the U.S. continue unabated.
Two Chinese tech powerhouses have combined to stake their country’s claim to Africa’s AI industry.
As former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini clearly stated, the merger of state and corporate powers is fascism.