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The secret of Chinese AI companies to compete without Nvidia chips: electricity subsidized by Beijing

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Everywhere we look, there is artificial intelligence. Everyone talks about it, but what is its fuel? It’s not the data or the chips: it’s the electricity. While in the West technology companies are looking for how to power their data centers —increasingly energy hungry—, China has decided to take a different step. Beijing has designed an energy subsidy for its technology sector with a clear objective: to make the energy that powers the digital brains of its next generation of chips cheaper. Energy subsidy. Since September, the Chinese Government banned large national technology companies —including Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent—acquire artificial intelligence chips from the American Nvidia, in an attempt to strengthen local production. However, the consequence was immediate: national processors consume more electricity. According to The Chosun Dailygenerating the same number of tokens with Chinese chips requires 30% to 50% more energy than with Nvidia’s H20, which sent electricity bills skyrocketing and led companies to complain to regulators. To make up for that gap, local governments introduced grants that cover up to a full year of operating costs, according to the Hong Kong media on.cc. In those provinces, industrial electricity was already 30% cheaper than in the developed coastal areas of the east, but with the new incentives the price could fall to 0.4 yuan per kilowatt-hour, a record figure for the Chinese technology industry. ¿How does the energy plan work? The scheme is relatively simple, but strategic. Local governments offer electricity discounts of up to half to data centers that use chips produced within the country. Operators that use foreign processors – such as those from Nvidia or AMD – are excluded from the program. In addition, the energy provinces receive direct support from the State to finance the discounts, with the aim of reducing dependence on technological imports and compensating for the increased consumption of local chips. According to the Financial TimesChinese data centers that rely on domestic semiconductors are, for now, less energy efficient, but the subsidy seeks to bring their costs in line with those of more advanced foreign chips. These regions—Guizhou, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia—have become hotbeds for data center clusters, thanks to their abundance of hydropower and coal. There, companies like Alibaba or Tencent are building new facilities to house their generative AI models, taking advantage of lower energy costs and tax incentives. This policy combines three strategic priorities: making energy cheaper, promoting domestic chips and reinforcing technological sovereignty. In a context of United States restrictions, each subsidized kilowatt is also a political statement. An industrial policy with a geopolitical charge. Behind the energy plan is a long-range political commitment. The Chinese Government intends for its technology companies to progressively replace imported chips with domestic processors, even if this implies higher costs in the short term. The electricity subsidy acts as a temporary bridge for national giants to adopt local chips without losing competitiveness. This measure is included in a broader national strategy of technological self-sufficiency. As the Financial Times explains in its series The State of AIChina is using its “society-wide mobilization capacity” to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence. The country already leads the number of patents and scientific publications in AI, and although the United States maintains an advantage in chips and talent, the gap narrows every year. Analyst Dan Wang, quoted by the same media, points out: “China has achieved a unique balance between engineering capacity, state control and massive industrial deployment, allowing it to advance faster than other countries in the practical application of AI.” Meanwhile, in the West… China’s decision contrasts with the energy challenges of the United States. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that the real bottleneck of AI It is no longer the chips, but the energy. In fact, he explained that many companies accumulate chips that they cannot connect due to lack of power supply. Both Microsoft and Google are already studying building modular nuclear reactors to power their future data centers, a sign of the enormous energy consumption that artificial intelligence requires. While Silicon Valley seeks electricity, China subsidizes it. This asymmetry reflects two different models: one guided by state intervention and the other by market competition. Both pursue the same goal—sustaining the artificial intelligence revolution—but with opposite philosophies. A future plugged into the State. The Chinese subsidy not only alleviates costs: it redefines the relationship between the State and the private sector in the age of AI. As analyst Arnaud Bertrand observed, US restrictions pushed China towards a different model: more efficient, more open and more collective. “By operating under hardware limitations, Chinese companies have learned to optimize resources and share open models like Qwen or DeepSeek,” wrote Bertrand on the social network That strategy, based on efficiency and diffusion, could give China a long-term advantage in global adoption, since any company in the world can download and adapt its models. The country that controls the plug. China isn’t just making the chips that power its artificial intelligence. It is also building the electrical grid that makes them possible. In a world where data is the new oil, Beijing has decided to subsidize the fuel of the digital brain. While the West debates how to connect its supercomputers, China plugs them in at a reduced price. And in this race, whoever controls the plug could end up controlling the future. Image | FreePik and FreePik Xataka | The world of AI has a problem: there is no energy for so many chips

Everyone is developing chips that compete with NVIDIA’s. They are in the wrong race

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Qualcomm advertisement on Monday that it is working on AI accelerator chips, which means there will be new competition for NVIDIA. The company that dominates the AI ​​hardware landscape is seeing a large group of competitors try to erode that position, but the problem for all of these companies is not the chips, but something else. A CUDA call. what has happened. Qualcomm has announced the AI200 chip, which will begin selling in 2026, and the AI250, which will do so in 2027. Both will be able to work in rack-type systems that have liquid cooling. Qualcomm servers may have up to 72 chips based on the Hexagon NPUs of the company’s Snapdragon SoCs. Inference yes, training no. The company has revealed that its chips focus on inference (the execution of AI models) and not training. Their rack-based systems will have lower operating costs than cloud system providers, Qualcomm says. Each rack consumes 160 kW, a figure comparable to the consumption of some racks based on NVIDIA GPUs. There are no details about the price of these chips, the cards or the racks that will integrate them, nor about how many NPUs can be offered in each rack. What we do know is that Qualcomm’s accelerator cards will support up to 768 GB of memory, more than what NVIDIA or AMD offer in their current models. according to CNBC. Chips for third parties. The other important point is that Qualcomm will sell its AI chips and other components separately, allowing large AI companies to “customize” their own racks based on Qualcomm chips. It is an identical philosophy to the one they have adopted in the world of their mobile SoCs. Investors viewed the news with exceptional optimism, and Qualcomm shares rose 11% in Monday’s session. NVIDIA dominates with an iron fist. In the AI ​​chip segment, the king is NVIDIA. The company is the absolute protagonist of this market and according to CNBC it maintains a 90% market share, which has allowed it to skyrocket its valuation to 4.5 trillion dollars. That dominance could now be threatened by the avalanche of chips that are arriving from various manufacturers. All against NVIDIA. AMD has its excellent Instinct, Google has your TPUsAmazon their TrainiumMicrosoft their Maia and Huawei has your Ascend. All of them make really striking proposals for NVIDIA chips, and little by little these solutions are being integrated into more and more data centers. But the real problem is not in the hardware, but in the software. The great challenge is to defeat CUDA. The de facto standard in the AI ​​industry that developers use It’s CUDAa platform that allows you to take full advantage of the capabilities of NVIDIA chips in the field of artificial intelligence. This hardware+software combination is much more mature than that of its competitors, who have the hardware part resolved (or are on the right track) but do not have a platform comparable to CUDA. AMD has ROCmwhich is especially interesting because it is Open Source, but at the moment its features still do not reach those of CUDA. Reinvent the wheel? CUDA has been on the market for almost two decades, which means that the majority of academic research and pioneering models—such as ImageNet—were written for CUDA. It is not a language, it is a vast collection of libraries, optimized frameworks (like cuDNN), debugging tools and a huge community. Developing a competitor is basically like reinventing the wheel, and migrations are expensive and companies and startups will not have an easy time assuming it. China is also in the fight. And of course, if there is another great protagonist in this race, it is China. The Asian giant, previously dependent on NVIDIA, is seeking to get rid of this manufacturer, and along with the development of advanced AI chips they are also trying to have its own AI software to surpass CUDA. In Xataka | AI is the best thing happening to nuclear fusion. The construction of ITER is already accelerating

Europe has done the only thing it could do to compete with SpaceX and China in space: merge its largest companies

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Europe has grown tired of watching from the sidelines how SpaceX and, increasingly, Chinaredefine the rules of the game in space. The continent’s response was inevitable: a historic fusion. The three European aerospace giants, Airbus, Leonardo and Thales, have signed a memorandum of understanding to combine its spatial divisions into a single, colossal enterprise. Merge or die. This is not news that we break every day. It is the most ambitious move in the European aerospace industry since the creation of the MBDA missile consortium in 2001. And at the same time, it is not an offensive move, but a strategic survival maneuver. Given the agility of reusable rockets and Elon Musk’s megaconstellations, the fragmentation of Europe had become an unsustainable burden. Now, the plan is to create a European champion with the critical mass necessary to at least be able to compete. A colossus about to be born. The agreement, which It’s been brewing for months. under the code name “Project Bromo”, it will give rise to a new company that, if approved by regulators, could be operational in 2027. The figures used give an idea of ​​the scale of the operation: a combined annual turnover of 6.5 billion euros, and nearly 25,000 employees spread throughout Europe. Airbus will have the majority stake with 35%, while the Italian Leonardo and the French Thales will share the rest almost equally, with 32.5% each. Despite the majority of Airbus, the government of the new colossus will be “balanced” and under joint control, as reported by the companies. What does each one contribute? Each partner will contribute his crown jewels in the space sector. Airbus will contribute with its Space Systems and Digital Space businesses. Leonardo will bring its Space Division to the table, including its valuable stakes in Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space. Thales will mainly contribute its shares in those same joint ventures (Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio) and Thales SESO. Why it was inevitable. The harsh reality is that Europe was falling behind, and very quickly. SpaceX’s disruption has been brutal, especially on two fronts: launch and satellites. While Europe continues recovering lost ground With the development of its Ariane rockets, Elon Musk’s company has not only radically lowered the cost of putting something into orbit, but has flooded the sky with its Starlink constellation and its military version, Starshield. Beating SpaceX is no longer possible. On October 19, the company surpassed a staggering number of 10,000 Starlink satellites launched in just over 300 launches of the Falcon 9 rocket. This network of small satellites has cannibalized the traditional market for large and expensive geostationary satellites, the pillar on which the business of European companies was based. The only thing Europe can do, and what this new giant is destined to do, is recover its technological sovereignty in space and, with it, its security. Image | Airbus In Xataka | “We are the company that has developed an orbital rocket the fastest”: PLD Space, one step away from making history from Spain

There are foreign bus companies trying to compete with Alsa and Avanza. And Spain is making it impossible

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The Spanish bus map is in the process of changing. Routes that do not make money, corridors that no one wants to access, companies that want to completely liberalize the sector and the doubt of, to what extent, foreign companies can enter to play in a foreign country. And Spain is trying by all means to ensure that the latter does not happen. What’s happening? If we adhere to Spanish regulations, right now a company dedicated to the transport of passengers by bus You cannot make international trips with stops to drop off and pick up travelers within Spain. Not, at least, permanently. The rule only allows this service to be carried out temporarily, in order to protect national routes. That is, this prevents a company from opening a route, for example, between Lisbon and Paris and from picking up and dropping off passengers within Spanish territory at its stops within Spain (in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​for example). It is understood that if this is possible it would be a direct competition to those who have been awarded those corridors. How do buses work in Spain? Spain uses a concessional model for its bus lines. This means that a broker goes out to tender and companies present their proposals playing with the price. The best offer is the one takes the concession and the one that begins to operate during the agreed years. The system has its advantages and disadvantages. Confebús, an association that defends this model, points out that it gives security to the client because transportation is guaranteed during the agreed years and a route cannot be abandoned. Companies like FlixBus are contrary because they understand that competition is limited and that they prevent the company from adapting to new circumstances. These circumstances, for example, leave some expired concessions or concessions that have never been put out to tender. It is especially serious on bus lines where a high-speed railway operates in parallel, since the train is much more competitive in price and time. Of course, the main people affected by the abandonment of these lines are the residents of towns with intermediate stops. And what about international travel? For some time now, Europe has wanted to liberalize the sector, as it has done with trains. Despite this, Spain is resisting and although at first it was proposed to jump to the direct competition model, finally we want to maintain the concessional system but with profound changes in the current map. With this system, services through cabotage are prevented. That is, the company picks up and delivers passengers within the same country along an international route. This is the argument of Avanza and Alsa to defend the latest ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union that has ruled in favor of Denmark before the opening of a file from the European Commission. However, the case that both companies put forward is not very representative of the open debate in Spain. What has happened in Denmark? Denmark has regulated the occasional bus service that operates through cabotage in the country to a maximum of seven calendar days in a month. The formula is also applied at other times in France, as both companies use in a statement collected by 20Minutes. Understanding that this contravened community rules, the European Commission has opened a file against Denmark but the Court of Justice of the European Union closes it, understanding that Denmark does not prevent the service, it only regulates it. That is, a company can act with a discretionary service through cabotage but within the regulations established by the country. But… what is discretionary? Here is a big part of the issue. European bodies have been discussing Whether or not Denmark allows cabotage service through discretionary routes but not regular routes. Discretionary routes are those that do not have a fixed route or established times. That is, they do not always leave on the same day of the week and at the same time from a specific city, for example. They are the typical routes for trips by tourists or supporters who go to watch a soccer match in another country. The limitation of those seven consecutive days within the same month that Denmark applies is designed so that foreign companies do not compete unfairly with their national companies, offering a regulated service camouflaged as discretionary. Implications in Spain? None. This is what FlixBus defends. The travel company maintains that this regulation, contrary to what Avanza and Alsa points out, has nothing to do with the regular and international routes that companies like them propose for our country. Routes in which they would use cabotage to make the line more efficient. They give as an example the route between Trier (Germany) and Madrid that FlixBus has requested with intermediate stops in Zaragoza and Barcelona that passengers could use to move within the national territory. The line has not been authorized and FlixBus appeals to the resolution of the European Commission of April 16 that forces Spain to open its lines to this service. Spain filed an appeal against this decision was dismissed by the Court of Justice of the European Union. What is Spain doing? Place all obstacles to the entry of new actors or the liberalization of bus lines, as demanded by Europe. The approval of the Sustainable Mobility Law On October 8, 2025, article 50 was eliminated, which allowed certain routes to be authorized in free competition. That is, for now, the battle to open new international routes that allow the transfer of travelers within the same country continues. Spain has the obligation to comply, if we adhere to what is required by the European Commission, but, for the moment, it still has not given the green light to this possibility. Photo | FlixBus and Eleazer Glez In Xataka | Until a few years ago, the towns between Madrid and Valencia had trains and buses. Now they only have one problem: the AVE

Miquel Ballester, co-founder of Fairphone, talks to us about how they compete with giants

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I meet again Miquel Ballester twelve years later. I interviewed him in 2013: I started my career in Xataka, and he did the same in Fairphonea company he officially co-founded a few months earlier with a singular goal: “to create the world’s first fully fair smartphone.” Many things have changed since then. We both already have gray hair, and we have both experienced from our side of the industry how smartphones have conquered the world and then become a standard and everyday product that has one difficulty: that of being truly differentiating. A different mobile in everything. Including your materials But at Fairphone they have managed to do precisely that: differentiate themselves. Your focus is totally different to that of the rest of the manufacturers, and although that part of the original mission has not changed, it has also expanded. According to Ballester, “it has always been a tool,” because Fairphone’s intention was to “change the industry from within.” Fairphone (Gen. 6). In fact, he explains, “we could have made our way by remaining an NGO or getting into the industry in another way, perhaps inspiring other companies and convincing them that there was a market for fair electronics.” Instead they decided to apply the old “if you want something well done you have to do it yourself”, and got to work. This is how the original Fairphone was born and how the others have emerged. Thus, the Fairphone commitment to conflict-free minerals remains one of the hallmarks of its devices. Miquel Ballester confirms that the situation has improved, in part, thanks to legislative changes such as those that have emerged in Europe. “Monitoring and reporting that reveals where certain materials come from, but conflict-free minerals are only one part” of the equation, he points out. The company has scaled its commitment from the initial 4 supply chains to 23 monitored chains, with the goal of half of its materials coming from fair or recycled sources. The new Fairphone (Gen. 6) is the demonstration of that work: more than 50% of the weight of its materials corresponds to fair or recycled materials (that percentage was 42% in the Fairphone 5). This direct management of the chain is vital, especially when deal with rare earthswhose shortage global affects the entire industry. Ballester clarifies that, although they notice the impact on the price, the one directly affected by the volume and wait challenges is the company that manufactures the component, not always the final assembler. Long live modularity and repairability If there is one thing that defines Fairphone, it is its radical approach to repairability and modularitysomething they have successfully extended beyond phones, as evidenced by their repairable headphones, the amazing Fairbuds. Miquel Ballester, Head of Product at Fairphone. That philosophy raises an inevitable question: “Does being repairable and modular involve too many sacrifices?” According to Ballester, “In Generation 6 we are very proud of the balance we have achieved between performance, modularity and sustainability. We have had to say no to many things, but they have all been good strategic decisions that went in one direction: getting a balanced phone for the type of consumer and the type of market we are in.” It is in these decisions that it has been decided, for example, whether to opt for one or another cutting-edge components. We have an example in the ultra-wide-angle sensor, which has lowered its resolution which “has nothing to do with modularity”, but rather to seek a balance and a good balance of specifications. But of course, that philosophy imposes certain criteria. Thus, this engineer and entrepreneur explains to us, “modularity imposes design and size restrictions“. For example, to ensure a large and serviceable battery, the device had to be “a few millimeters thicker” (9.6 mm in the case of the Fairphone (Gen. 6)). Despite this, Ballester emphasizes that this modularity cannot compromise the design too much. In the end, the mobile phone needs to “work and be attractive. It is super important that when a person goes to a store – we are in 20 operators throughout Europe – they see a terminal with a good design.” All that history and experience has allowed them to polish once again a design that remains remarkable but that at the same time includes a battery of decent capacity (4,415 mAh) that is also interchangeable/repairable. The result for him and his team is remarkable: “I’m very proud of the design we’ve achieved with the Fairphone (Gen. 6). It feels good in hand, is light, maintains balance and has a larger screen than the Fairphone 5, which was one of the key goals we had.” In fact, we asked Ballester about past mistakes that they learned from, and he precisely alluded to the predecessor of this mobile. “The Fairphone 5 is a very good device, but it is also I tried to do many things. With the Fairphone (Gen. 6) we were able to make stricter decisions about what should be included and what not, and thanks to that we were able to launch it at a more affordable price.” The Fairphone (Gen. 6), like its predecessors, allows you to enjoy an interchangeable battery, a feature that was previously common and is no longer so. Long live repairable cell phones. It’s true: the Fairphone 5 was launched at 699 euros, while the Fairphone (Gen. 6) has a retail price of 599 euros, a notable difference especially considering that it is normal for everything to go up in price, not go down. For him, in fact, what happened with the Fairphone 5 led to a very important learning experience. “The 5 responded to a certain moment in the company, there was uncertainty, we did not want to close doors. With Gen. 6 we have taken another path even knowing that perhaps we were leaving things behind. You can’t try to please everyone because in the end you don’t make anyone happy.“. Fairphone in Spain and how to compete with giants At Fairphone … Read more

Your whole at 100 to compete with Temu is already here

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Almost a year after his birth, Amazon Haul It arrives in Spain. Haul is an online store with a simple rule: all products cost less than twenty euros. In fact, most are below ten. Why is it important. Amazon enters, now also in Spain, in a market that have dominated Chinese competitors such as Shein, Temu and Aliexpress. These platforms have conquered millions of Spaniards selling fashion, electronics and accessories at unbeatable prices. And now Amazon wants to replicate that model, but with its own logistics and guarantees, in addition to the persuasion of maintaining its brand. The context. Haul started in November 2024 in the United States. It also has a presence in other markets, such as Germany and the United Kingdom. There the reception has been positive, according to the company, and now lands in Spain with three tens of product categories: fashion, home, accessories … Customers can access Haul From the web and from the Amazon application. Just look for ‘Haul’ or locate it in the menu. Once inside, experience is something different from that of traditional Amazon: it has its own cart, search and payment process. In figures: Free shipping in orders of at least 15 euros. If the order is below, 3.5 euros of standard rate are added. And Amazon applies staggered discounts: 5% discount on purchases of more than 30 euros. 10% discount on orders greater than 50 euros. Yes, but. Delivery deadlines are longer than in the conventional Amazon. Orders arrive in “two weeks or less”, a margin that moves away from the first standard but that remains competitive against Aliexpress or Temu. In addition, Amazon has not announced specific advantages for prime customers in Haul. The two businesses work separately and orders are managed independently. The big question. Can Amazon unseat Asian giants on their own land? The company is committed to its strongest letter: trust. All products pass Amazon verifications and comply with European regulations. Returns are free for 15 days and it is not necessary to print labels or package anything. Just take the product to an authorized point of Celeritas or Seur, as Amazon has been applying. Deepen. Amazon’s strategy is to differentiate itself in verifications and logistics. Shein specializes in fashion and accessories. Temu and Aliexpress bet on a general offer. Haul is closer to the latter, although he also competes directly with Shein in some categories. The objective is clear: that users fill the cart with several articles taking advantage of the staggered discounts, replicating the model that has made Temu popular. In Xataka | Online trade was supposed to end the shopping centers. Reality has been just the opposite Outstanding image | Amazon, Xataka

Amazon new do not compete against Google Home. Compete against indifference

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A decade ago, Alexa was the future. Today, when we talk about conversational and chatbots, we mentioned ChatgptClaude, Grok or Gemini. Traditional voice assistants (I also look at you, Siri) have become something that simply exists, such as microwave: limitedly useful, but forgotten, cornered. Amazon has just presented four new echo devices: Echo Dot Max with serious three times more powerful. Echo Studio redesigned. Echo Show 8 and 11 with screens of more than one million pixels and 13 MP cameras. Yes, but. The improvements are real and measurable. The problem is that many fewer people are paying attention to ten years ago. Alexa has gone from being a revolutionary promise to a kitchen stopwatch with voice and music. We ask songs, we put alarms, little more. The narrative was exhausted. The context. The voice assistant industry It has been stagnant for years in the same basic functionalities. Meanwhile, Chatgpt has demonstrated what a real conversational means: maintain context, reason, surprise. Users already know that there is something better, even if they don’t have it in their living room. Amazon promises that these devices “feel the bases” to Alexa+its assistant with generative. In Spain there is still no arrival date for those advanced functions. It is the usual promise: Wait, the best is yet to come. The big question. Can an improved spherical speaker change habits that we carry dragging a decade? The factor in form is the same. The activation gesture, identical. The user’s expectation about what Alexa does. Between the lines. Amazon does not need only more powerful or microphones chips that better detect the activation word. We need to stop seeing Alexa as another appliance and imagine it again as something that can change how we live. That is not fixed with deeper serious. The battle is no longer against Google Home or Siri. It is against the indifference of users who learned years ago what they can expect from a voice assistant and stopped waiting for more. Amazon has the hardware. He lacks the reason for us. In Xataka | The announcement of the new Alexa hides an awkward truth: the silent sunset of the Solo-Voz interface Outstanding image | Xataka

The world is waiting for Depseek’s new great model to compete with GPT-5, but Depseek has other plans: the agricultural AI

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At the beginning of the year, the Chinese startup Deepseek put the world of AI up with Deepseek R1a free and open source model that was placed at the height of GPT-4 or Claude. After the coup on the table, in Depseek they have been quite quiet, but now we know what its next objective is: the agriculture. Before the end of the year. A few days ago Bloomberg reported that Deepseek is working on an advanced and very ambitious agent. He will be able to perform multiple tasks with minimal user intervention and will learn as he works. According to sources close to the company, the founder of the company Lian Wenfeng is pressing his team so that the new agentic model is ready before the end of the year. The company has already taken a step in this direction with the Deepseek v3.1 presentation Just two weeks ago. As detailed by the company in A post in Wechatits new model improves performance in reasoning tasks and agricultural abilities. A step back. Deepseek R2, the expected successor of the successful model with which Deepseek revolutionized the industry making begging. Instead they gave us Deepseek v3.1 and now the rumors suggest that their next great launch will be an AI agent. What is happening? There are voices, such as This Chinese journalistthat they see this turn to the agricultural AI as a way of taking a step back and getting away from the expensive and competitive career of the foundational language models. That The generative AI is reaching its roof It is something that is being talked about Since last year. GPT-5 is the test more recent than The big jumps are a thing of the past. If we add to this that China has a more conservative way of proceeding, with more long -term strategiesDeepseek’s turn towards an agriculture instead of launching Depseek R2 makes sense. Restrictions Although we have seen The most ingenious forms to make fun of themUnited States restrictions on chip export to China are also impacting the plans of many Chinese and Deepseek companies do not get rid. This also involves extra pressure that forces new routes with which to market their products. In fact, there is something striking in Deepseek v3.1 and it is that the model has been specially designed for Chinese chipswith the objective of Avoid dependence on foreign chips. Generate income. The agricultural AI opens another way for Deepseek, one in which you can get benefits more easily. Large language models have a problem: They cost a money and monetize them is not being a simple task. Given this, IA agents rise like a Most reasonable business model. Deepseek R1 has already given a whole lesson in Resource efficiencyIt makes sense that the company wants to opt for the fastest path to the benefits. A more conservative position. Although He has trimmed positionsChina lags in AI in terms of investments and access to the most advanced chips. Despite this, his approach in this AI race is being different. We see it in your Bet on the Open-Source wave “Personified“But perhaps the biggest difference is that, while their competitors in the United States continue to squander billions, in China they are choosing to be more conservative and not waste. This turn to the agents is in that conservative line to achieve a more sustainable industry. Image | Matheus Bertelli, via Pexels In Xataka | There is a city in China that is measured face to face with Silicon Valley: welcome to Hangzhou, the house of the ‘Six Little Dragons’

The Xiaomi Pad 7, the honor Pad 10 and the Lenovo Idea Tab Pro compete in the same land. Only one is reinforced for studies

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When September arrives, for many it means the same: return to studies. It doesn’t matter the race that is being pursued, having the right tools always makes a difference when rendering to the maximum. The laptop is still a safe bet, but it is not the only one. Tablets have become an increasingly solid optionand in some cases they can even match or overcome the computer in certain tasks. In Xataka we resume our format Versus On our YouTube channelin which we face face -to -face devices to discover which one is worth more. We already did it with Sports watches of less than 200 euros and with Two of Amazon’s most popular air fryers. Now the focus is on three very competitive tablets: Xiaomi Pad 7, Honor pad 10 and Lenovo Idea Tab Pro. Our partner Ana Boria has tried these three models, which They are 350 eurosto check if this budget is sufficient to face your mission. For her, there are undeniable aspects: a large battery “to endure without problem as little, an entire day of institute or university, several storage options, and sufficient processor and RAM.” Although they start from a similar price, their differences are evident. The screen size is the first detail that attracts attention. “Of course, to use them in hand, the most comfortable and manageable is Xiaomi,” says Ana. His impressions about the other two are more critical: one feels too large and another adds more weight than expected. The perspective changes when placing them on the table. “To use them on a table, with keyboard or pencil, The truth is that the 3 are very comfortable. To write a lot or read, you appreciate having an extra inches. ”In addition, not everything is productivity, and in the entertainment section preferences may vary. “The 3 tablets have very good quality LCD screens. It has a lot of resolution, high level of detail, good colors and technologies that help reduce eye fatigue,” he explains. Even so, there are differences in resolution and refreshment rate that should be taken into account. The complete comparison is in the video. Ana also analyzed cameras, sound and performance. “Although on paper and according to Benchmarks, The Xiaomi tablet processor is betterthe truth is that the 3 behave wonderfully, ”he says. None of them gave it problems in their work sessions or in times of leisure. In an academic scenario, accessories make a difference. “For me, without a doubt, the keyboard is an almost mandatory purchase. If you are going to use the tablet to take it to class and take notes and notes, I think it is the most comfortable and quick way to work. I already tell you that when I used the Lenovo, I was missing a lot,” he says. The comparative also covers autonomy and artificial intelligence functions. After reviewing all the points, there is a clear winner. You can discover it in our last Versus: The final verdict is there, ready to help you decide. And if you feel like it, share your opinions in the comments, both here as on YouTube. Images | Xataka In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 and S11 Ultra: The new S Pen is the star of armed tablets to teeth

compete for the browser with AI to work final

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Atlassian has agreed Acquire The Browser Companythe New York startup creator of the browsers ARC and Dayfor 610 million dollars in cash. The agreement becomes the business software company owner of one of the most promising startups in the browse sector with artificial intelligence. The reception was less than they expected. The Browser Company was founded in 2019 with the ambition to reinvent the experience of web navigation. Your first product, arcarrived in 2022 with several innovative functionalities, such as its advanced tabs, integrated slate, or its ability to share eyelashes. However, only a small percentage of users took advantage of these characteristics, according to They mentioned From the CNBC. This is how the browser with the the Browser Company The turn to the AI. In June 2024, The Browser Company launched daya simpler browser but focused on artificial intelligence that allows users to interact through prompts with multiple tabs simultaneously. Day you can move data between spreadsheets, consult calendars from Gmail or take advantage of any content with URL to provide your AI models. This approach that The Browser Company opted has turned out to be the real hook for Atlassian. Why Atlassian bets on this. Mike Cannon-Broakes, CEO of Atlassian, He has been a user of ARC since its inception And since then he has dedicated a good part of his time to detect errors and ask the team more functions. Now he prepares to own the project. “Today’s browsers were not created to work, they were built to navigate,” assures Cannon-Broakes. The company sees an opportunity to combine the experience offered by software as an ARC service with the abilities of the day to create an optimized browser so that workers obtain the knowledge they need for their tasks in a easiest way. Business Strategy. Atlassian, who has more than 300,000 clients, plans to keep The Browser Company as Independent Division. Miller will continue to lead the development, although Recognize An approach change: “Before we talked a lot about shopping, make reservations, search for film schedules. That will disappear in terms of our focus,” he explains. Now they will concentrate exclusively on professional users. Between the lines. The operation arrives at a time of intense competition in browsers with AI. Perplexity has its own browserGoogle is integrating ia in Chrome At an accelerated pace, and OpenAi is supposedly close to launch a browser Based on chatgpt. What about Arc. Although Miller promises that ARC will continue to be maintained, the startup had already stopped developing new functionalities for this browser. The focus will be completely day, which promises to integrate the best characteristics of ARC. And the transition seems inevitable, since everything indicates that there is no place for two browsers in this new strategy. The perfect timing. Miller justifies the sale arguing that “the winner of the navigators space with AI will be decided in the next 12 to 24 months.” To compete, The Browser Company needed massive distribution, sales and scale organization that, according to him, “it was not something that money could buy on the temporal horizon we had.” Atlassian, with its 2.3 million monthly active users in AI capacities, offers exactly that. And now what. The agreement will be closed in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 of Atlassian, subject to regulatory approvals. The operation will be financed with cash by the company. For The Browser Company, the strategy represents both a great exit and a risky bet, since they go on to bet on a future as a work tool instead of continuing to compete for being the chatgpt of personal browsers. Cover image | Day In Xataka | I have tried the new OpenAI models. It has been a small odyssey with prize: I have a chatgpt at home

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