On 28 January 2025, The Trends Journal alerted subscribers about this little-known Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, that sent a bolt across the AI-driven stock market’s bow when it announced that it trained a free AI assistant for $6 million instead of the $100-million-plus that Open AI and other Western tech companies had to spend on their products.
Donald Trump said he will grant Nvidia Corp. permission to export its H200 chips to China.
Right now, there’s much talk about who’s up and who’s down in the AI Arms Race.
Next year, for the first time, India’s growth in oil consumption will be greater than China’s, chief economist Saad Rahim at commodities trader Trafigura Group told the Financial Times Asia Commodities Summit last week.
India’s stock market is performing less well than the exchanges of other emerging economies and doing so by the widest margin this century, the Financial Times reported.
In 2026, China will again set a modest 5-percent GDP growth target, repeating the goal it set for 2025, according to government advisors and officials who spoke to Reuters.
China will deploy human-shaped robots at its border crossing with Vietnam south of Guangxi, the South China Post reported.
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.