by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 9, 2025 | China, Energy, News, Reports, Sustainability
China’s lithium reserves have nearly tripled to make it the world’s second-largest holder of the key metal for renewable energy technology, Xinhua reports. The country now has 16.5% of global reserves, behind only Chile. It has moved ahead of Australia, Argentina and...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 5, 2025 | AI, China, Innovation, News, Technology
Chinese start-up DeepSeek has emerged as “the biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena in 2025 with its latest release DeepSeek V3. That assessment came from Jim Fan, a senior research scientist at Nvidia and lead of its AI Agents...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Dec 22, 2024 | AI, China, Environment, News, Technology
Under its Firefly brand, Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio has launched a new small car, which will compete with BMW’s Mini and Mercedes-Benz’s Smart. William Li, the co-founder and CEO of the Shanghai-based carmaker, says that the small and cheap model...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Dec 3, 2024 | China, Asia, Digitalization, Innovation, News, Technology
A Chinese start-up from prestigious Tsinghua University has started internal tests of its virtual hospital platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The platform developed by Tairex, a company set up in September under the university’s Institute for Al...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Dec 1, 2024 | Business, China, News, Technology
China’s mobile phone shipments rose 1.8% year-on-year in October 2024 to 29.67 million units, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). 5G mobile phones accounted for about 90% of the October shipments, totaling 26.72...
