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Chinese cars no longer compete against the West. Compete against the future itself

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For years, the West was the goal. The mirror where Chinese brands were looked at. The standard that had to be achieved. Today, that mirror is broken. Byd, Xiaomi, Zeekr, Nio or Jaecoo and omoda —The new heads of the Chery group in Europe – no longer mimic Tesla, Mercedes, BMW or Jeep. They play on another board. One that did not even exist five years ago. A land where The car is no longer just engine, or prestige, or inheritance: it is a digital platform, it is integrated emotion, It is services fluidity. While in Europe it is still discussed if the electric car can be profitable and in the United States automotive has become a political fight, In China the car has mutated something different: a living, sensitive, evolutionary object. A product in perpetual beta, as a software that learns, feels and redefines. Each new model launched by Chinese brands is less one car and more a manifesto, a declaration of intentions. Plus a commitment to the future than an answer to the present. He Xiaomi Su7 Ultra It is not an improved alternative to Model 3. It is a complete reinvention of the Premium car idea: 800 km of autonomy, ultra -grape load of 370 kilometers in 10 minutes, indoor level, native digital ecosystem, emotional assistants. The car not only drives: he lives, he feels, he talks. Byd, with all its brands, carries this transformation even further: models such as the Yangwang U8 or the denza Z do not offer luxury by themselves, but luxury as an emotional extension of technology, with an absolute domain of the software and an obsession with the user’s sensory experience. Each gesture, every texture, each lighting has an emotional purpose, not just functional. Yangwang U8L. Image: Xataka. Denza Z. Image: Xataka. Nio and Zeekr, meanwhile, explore the car as extension of the vital ecosystem: interchangeable batteries in minutes, voice assistants that learn from you, environmental screens that transform the cabin into an intimate space. They do not sell cars. They sell life experiences. And this phenomenon no longer remains in China. We are seeing it in Europe with omoda and jaecootwo brands that the Chery group has brought to Spain with a clear proposal: expressive design, advanced digital interfaces, full connectivity technology at a price that makes it difficult to ignore them. Omoda 3. Image: omoda. He Omoda 5 and the Jaecoo 7 They do not simply seek to replicate a German or Japanese SUV. They seek to build another car idea: more sensory, more digital, more emotional. He Omoda 3 He has consolidated that idea: it’s not just a car, it’s something else. And in their presentation they were insistent with the emotional aspect. In the interview we have published in XatakaCharlie Zhang, vice president of Chery, told us in Wuhu: “The stereotype has deflated at the speed of our sales.” A phrase that summarizes how China no longer needs to imitate anyone: now define its own rules. Because it is no longer just about electrification. Not even autonomy.It’s about redefining what it means to possess and live a car. China no longer seeks to live up to it, but directly design the next level. In Shanghai it was clear: the future of the car is no longer decided in Munich or Detroit. He is incubating in Beijing, in Shenzhen, in Wuhu. And the West, this time, no longer carries the lead. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | I have driven the Jaecoo 5 EV in China: the electric SUV that no longer asks for permission

Elon Musk described Tesla as $ 25,000 as an “absurd idea.” Now he needs it to compete in China

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The electric car market is squeezed. And the brand that has made the most popularize technology faces an uncertain future. The risk of Tesla staying behind begins to be evident without a 25,000 euros car in its range. It was the opportunity to open market but something has had to happen within the company so that we do not see a product that promised to be groundbreaking when everything was in its favor. A promise that is no longer clear if it is a promise. We are five years listening to the car of the $ 25,000 of Tesla. The first time the company put a price and date to the concept was in the Battery Day of 2020. Then the company said we should see the project materialized in 2023. Like so many other promises of the company, this did not happen. And it’s not just that it didn’t happen. Last year, taking advantage of the presentation of its short -term robotaxis project, Elon Musk himself came to qualify that $ 25,000 car as “Absurd idea”. More necessary than ever. The company’s performance has lived in a roller coaster in recent months. Donald Trump’s election as the new president of the United States fired optimism among investors Given Musk’s approach to the new executive. Since the start of the year, performance has been deflated to place in pre-elections. In that growth and subsequent puncture there is a lot of Cult stock but also of bad results. 2024 was, after many years, the first year in which Tesla did not grow And the first months of 2025 are being really bad. As hope, the renewal of a Tesla Model and which should be felt in registration records as of this March. But, in addition, Tesla is seeing how the rivals squeeze. The last to join has been Mazda with its first big electric carlarger than the Tesla Model 3 But rivaling in price. It is not the only case, useful electric cars For day to day and long trips for 30,000 euros They also begin to emerge. And all before the arrival of Toyota. China, a symptom. Of the concerns within the company, its plans in China tell us a lot. The country was first to receive the renewal of Tesla Model Y. In the most competitive market for the electric car, the renewal was essential. Byd’s response has been ambitious shortly after: give away your driving aid systems. The movement is a missile to Tesla that until a few months ago He had not achieved permits to continue improving his functions of driving aid in the country. Of course, it is an argument of sale in front of a more expensive car and that lacks smaller options. That is, it does not have a proposal where they are Great sales of the Chinese market. In Tesla’s bosom they must be more than aware of the problem and, in fact, in Reuters They ensure that the company prepares a cut version of Tesla Model and current. It should be at least 20% less expensive to produce. Later he would arrive in the United States and Europe, according to the sources of the news agency. Something broke. But what happened for Tesla to “abandon” the car of the 25,000 euros? It is difficult to believe that the company has taken a radical turn in its proposal simply by Elon Musk’s designs. In fact, there was already investors who questioned the change strategy when the project was announced Tesla Cybercab. In recent years, Tesla said she had solid bases to think she could reduce production by 50% of their cars. The idea was to make the electric car a kind of small puzzle. But the greater the Gigacasting That so many benefits has given the company, it is more complicated to create the first mother piece. A problem that had been entrenched, according to Reuters. And to this we must add that Tesla does not get the expected economic performance in its 4680 batteries. They were the great promise to lower the electric car and approach the desired $ 25,000 but The results are not being expected. In fact, a group of researchers have evaluated these batteries by confronting them with those of ByD and ensure that Those of the Chinese manufacturer are much cheaper to produce. A thread of hope. As we say, it seems difficult to think that the company has completely abandoned a project that needs irremediably to aspire to be the manufacturer of Dozens of millions of cars which (assures) aspires to be. The appearance of a Tesla Model and trimmed for China is one of those symptoms. But, in addition, rumors have consistency because at the end of 2024 The Wall Street Journal He also claimed that the company is determined to launch a smaller SUV than Model and, although it would not reach the long -awaited border. Therefore, it seems not so much that Tesla does not want to launch an electric car of $ 25,000. Everything indicates that it cannot. The productive processes that sought to save a very high percentage of the costs seem to be struck but the intention to continue offering new more affordable models does seem to be present within the company. Photo | Tesla In Xataka | Musk’s political ambition has turned Tesla into an ideological lightning rod. And the whole company is paying

First it was Broncano. Now, the new TVE director puts the channel’s afternoons up to compete with private

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No one has caught the filtration that TVE will have his own ‘Save me‘, As much as that concept is not entirely exact. The appearances of María Patiño and Belén Esteban in ‘The revolt‘(One of both meetings, two more from Esteban alone) They have been interpreted As consistent confirmations of the presentation of the presenters to public television, as it seems that it will finally be. However, it is more than a signing: behind there are proper names linked to the ‘Save Me’ phenomenon and a medium -term TVE strategy. Rumors of changes. The exclusive televise was givenin information that other media have been confirming: Aitor Albizua, presenter of ‘Figures and Letters’, will lead a daily program for the afternoons in which María Patiño and Belén Esteban will also be. Albizua has achieved unusual data for LA2, such as 5.5 of average monthly fee in February, and this step to La1 (without abandoning the contest that has given him fame) is a jump for the presenter, who will be in charge of a program that will flag one “deep renewal“In the afternoons of the chain. To renew the afternoons. This is how Sergio Calderón, director of RTVE, spoke of the public television plans for that strip, when he decided to cancel the series ‘The Modern’. In ‘RTVE responds‘, The program in which the defender of the audience of RTVE helps to resolve the doubts of the spectators with the directors of the chain, Calderón said that “the curve of audiences of the series benefited from the expectation of the start of the chapter of’ The Promise ‘, our daily leading series of the afternoons, and we saw that its curve depended in excess of the performance of this subsequent offer.” That is, it was a space with possibilities, but “it was impossible to maintain, at emotional and also budgetary rhythm, three daily series in the afternoons.” And there enters a new formula. Who is Sergio Calderón. In December last yearthe new president of RTVE, José Pablo López, appointed Calderón director of TVE (with a certain controversy for the urgency with which it arrived). Calderón worked in Mediaset Spain until March 2024 -was fired by Alessandro Salem, CEO of the group After Vasile-, after 13 years of responsible for thematic channels such as Divinity, Energy and Be Mad. Then he entered as director of content, innovation, marketing and communication of manufacturers Studio (previously the TV factory), a producer known for the creation of ‘Save Me’. He was one of those responsible for the creation of his heir program, ‘nor that we were Shhh’ that has ended up being broadcast and under his own digital channel, Quickie Canal. The popularization of TVE. The signing of Broncano and his Good audience resultsplanting face to that moment untouchable Pablo Motos, confirmed the turn of TVE Towards a more popular televisionprecisely that one that tried to distance Salem’s mediaset with the cancellation of Sálvame. It is in that model where both a hypothetical space with Buenafuente and this program with the rumored Esteban and Patiño (rumors reinforced by statements of both in ‘La Revuelta’, where a “we are available”). What is confirmed is that it will be daily, live, and the Osa Audiovisual Producciones, of the creators of ‘Save Me’ and ‘Nor what we were’ will be managed. For the first time. There were no previous referents of these radical changes in the orientation of TVE, which had always maintained in late cultural competitions such as’ the hunter ‘ – which also leaves the grill with’ Moderna’- and, since September 2024, three series that will now remain in two to give space to the new Magacin. A more radical change than it seems because with this not only face face in the battle of audiences with Broncano, turned and good source, but will also do so in the afternoon Sonsoles Onega and ‘afternoon’. Header | RTVE In Xataka | ‘La Revuelta’ has made the issuance of lotteries at last something interesting. In return, a millionaire fine has been taken

Xiaomi’s weapon to compete with the best in AI for mobile

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Within the framework of the Mobile World Congress 2025, Xiaomi has announced great plans for 2025. Xiaomi 15 Ultra is one of them and, together with Xiaomi 15make up the new high range for this year. These two phones arrive with Hyperai, the interpretation of the Chinese manufacturer. Xiaomi has come something after his rivals to integrate multiple functions of AI so natively, but says the saying that better. I have been able to try some of these first -hand functions, so I’m going to tell you what Xiaomi has implemented on these phones, and what to expect from this first stage. This is how Xiaomi money earns – they attract you and catch you The novelties of Hyperai Hyperai’s novelties are divided into seven blocks. In all of them there is a common point: it is a native integration. In other words, they are deep integrations at the system level and it has been sought that the experience be as far as possible to use a third -party service. That said, this is what you should know about Hyperai in Europe. Gemini: Integration with Gemini is completely native. It works as a system assistant, it is invoked with the ignition button and, the most mold, you can read the content of all our apps if we give permission. This allows you to make summaries, translations, and others. Writing with AI: We can change the style of the message, make summaries, review texts, etc. Gallery editor with AI: We can improve the clarity of the photos with AI, make generative expansion of them (such as the adobe tool), delete objects, or create videos with AI. Voice recognition: Transcripts, distinction between speakers, summaries, translations and custom labels for each speaker. Interpret conversations with AI: Face to face interpretation, automatic language recognition, translation templates. CALL INTERPRETE Subtitles with real time Xiaomi’s AI is quite similar to view on the rest of the phones that use the Nano Gemini model: translations, text improvements, editions in the gallery … Those that require Internet connection, such as the expansion of images, also require Xiaomi account. The deletion of people is improvable. Generative for edges. After trying some of these functions, I am clear that Xiaomi’s AI is in its first steps. In this example, quite easy by the way, I wanted to eliminate the person from photography. The result is somewhat inconsistent. In the second example I wanted to fill in space in photography. If we expand, we see that elements such as the fork contain errors. Writing functions are available in apps such as WhatsApp. Some others are native, such as interview transcription in their recorder app. Regarding text corrections, they work quite well. It is a useful function for professional emails and work environment. Transcripts work relatively well (with some errors, of course), but the phone takes a long time to process the results. I would like this processed to be done in the background to expedite the process. Xiaomi has reached AI a tuño late, but the integration promises. Not taking some year of experience makes it end up noticing a certain distance in front of some of its competitors, so the following updates have an important work ahead: reach the level of the best in the market. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Alibaba has new Open Source to generate videos. The problem is that it is being used to generate pornographic deepfakes

Meta had no own app to compete with chatgpt. Mark Zuckerberg has already warned that this will change very soon

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Goal is in a strange situation in the AI ​​segment. His Open Source model, calls, is something like the Linux of the AI. From it all kinds of derived developments arise, but while the company triumphs among independent academics and developers, it barely has a presence in the commercial world. And precisely that can change soon. Meta AI Independent APP in sight. According to sources close to the aforementioned project In CNBCGoal is preparing the launch of an independent AI application during the second quarter of 2025. Goal AI is an unknown veteran. The company launched its chatbot Goal AI In September 2023, a year and a half ago. However, the company preferred Integrate it into your social networks ” It was a curious movement, but it has caused it to be a great stranger. Susan Li, CFO of Meta, indicated that Meta AI has about 700 million monthly active users (at least they have opened it once a month). Goal needs its own chatgpt. And as a goal did not offer independent chatbot – it can be webbut not in the EU – the rivals have advanced him everywhere. Chatgpt has always been the referent, but Gemini, Claude, Deepseek or Co -People are now the clear options for those who want to access these tools. All of them offer independent applications on the mobile. Even perplexity does it. Here we have A good example in perplexitywhich is not only a search engine with AI but has become a way of accessing several AI models – Open Source – from the same interface. Goal can take advantage of that same approach since its own LLM is Open Source, but a goal AI has always focused on a flame exclusively. Zuck already warned. The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stood out in his talk with investors in January his ambition in this area: “This is going to be the year in which a personalized assistant of high intelligence reaches more than 1,000 million people, and I hope that ai is that assistant of AI.” Did it twice. Not only said that to investors. On January 10 he answered a user who He suggested in Threads What a goal AI had its own independent application. Mark Zuckerberg’s response was an emoticon that represented that he agreed 100% with that suggestion. Subscription model in sight. In CNBC they reveal that Meta plans to collect a subscription for using Metaai, thus imitating the philosophy they have followed for example OpenAi, Google or Microsoft. The idea, as in those cases, is to offer a basic version without cost, and then more powerful, but paid versions. Image | Goal In Xataka | Mark Zuckerberg announces the new goal goal: to create a general artificial intelligence

These are the 18 companies that Xi Jinping has chosen to compete with the West

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The recent one Technological Symposium held in China It was not one more meeting. For the first time in years, President Xi Jinping met with the country’s great technological leaders, Including Jack Ma, the co -founder of Alibaba who had disappeared from public life since he faced the authorities in 2020. The disposition of the seats, an important detail in Chinese culture and protocol, spoke for itself, gave subtle messages about the power of each company. Huawei and Byd occupied the central positions, close to Xi Jinping. It was a sample of the importance that China gives telecommunications and electric mobility. In a way it is an award and recognition. And beyond the protocol, the relevance of the meeting is in the fact that it has occurred, in an early sign on a change in government attitude towards the private technological sector. The convened companies reflect Chinese power in technology today. Some better known in the West, others still unknown but with a global potential. These are: Deepseek. The New Chinese star in generativewhich competes with OpenAi models at a much lower cost … and open source. Its presence is symbolic: China is giving great importance to the Global AI race. Tencent. The giant of Gaming and social networks have its action at maximum. The reason? Has introduced Depseek R1 in Wechatits “superapp” with more than 1,000 million users. Iflytek. Natural language processing leader in China. Its voice recognition technology is winning integers in the development of AI in China. Qihoo. Outstanding leader in Chinese cybersecurity at the domestic level, of an end user. It is a sector considered sensitive to the desired Chinese technological autarchy. Xiaomi. No secret: smartphones manufacturer that has triggered its relevance in the last decade and is an important example: the ability to innovate in affordable hardware keeping margins restrained. Will Semi. Specialized in chips for the automobile industry. Again, the type of key company for self -sufficiency. Or at least to reduce the dependence of foreign suppliers. Byd. World leader for sale of electric cars, ended 2023 even above even Tesla, although this recovered the throne in 2024. And unlike the Musk company, not only sells electric cars, so its total is much higher. It is a perfect example of the sublimation of the Chinese strategy: to dominate future industries. Huawei. Victim of the Commercial War, has managed to get up after the western sanctions and is reaping A great success with your phones in your gigantic domestic market. In addition, it maintains its position in 5G telecommunications and has diversify its business, with a recent opening towards business software. New Hope. Chinese “new hope” in agriculture: modernizes this type of traditional sectors through AI and automation. UNITREE. Robotics. It has domestic robots Of various types and prices, including some quadrupeds reminiscent of Boston Dynamics. This is a very interesting type of company: it is an example of a category traditionally dominated by the West. And now China also makes its way in it. Chnt. Key figure in Chinese industrial automation, a sector with a +++ priority in the country’s modernization strategy. Feihe. Holding company of production and sale of dairy products. What do you do on this list? Bet on digitalization and modernization. And incidentally serves as an example for other traditional and more analog sectors. Alibaba. The Chinese electronic commerce giant. Or one of them, because there are already several. In addition, it is the company of the enigmatic Jack Ma, which It had almost a missing five years of public life. This presence is a track of a possible thaw between the government and giants like him. Catl. World Dominator of the battery market and recent investor in Spainanother fundamental component for the energy transition and towards electric mobility. Transfer. Chemical group that is digitizing its industrial operations. Case similar to Feihe or New Hope. Koce. Leading company in machinery and smart manufacturing. Case similar to the previous one. Meituan. Giant of electronic commerce at the local level, with strength in delivery services. Compete with Alibaba nationwide. He has aggressively expanded his digital services in second and third level cities, but for the moment not in international key. GERTEK. Manufacturer of acoustic components and audio technology for manufacturers such as Apple. Again, model company for its ability to master important niches in the global technology supply chain. This symposium is one of those moments in Chinese technological history that can be very remembered within a few years. Especially if time confirms it as a turning point in the relationship between the Chinese government and its technology. Years of strict control, completed with The cancellation of the IPO of Ant Group And with the virtual disappearance of Jack Ma, they now change inertia with Beijing apparently willing to give some more air to their private companies. Two reasons seem the main causes: The rise of AI as an opportunity to lead a global industry with which to achieve definitive recognition to the position that China has occupied in the world. Competition with the United States in the context of a markedly nationalist and protectionist country and culture. Always under the premise expressed by XI: “Serve the country.” China is in full readjustment of its technological strategy: it maintains state control, but allowing more space to the private sector. Especially in areas such as AI, where speed is as important as innovation to compete. In the end the message is as clear as expected: Chinese technology can and should grow … but as long as they remain aligned with national priorities. In Xataka | Deepseek exposed: how money earns and what role does the Chinese government have in this AI Outstanding image | Wikipedia Commons

Intel has a bullet in the bedroom. A bullet capable of helping you compete from you with TSMC

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The possibility of Intel ending chopped and its semiconductor factories become part of TSMC production infrastructure It is on the table. As we explained two days ago, this producer of Taiwanese integrated circuits and the American chip designer Broadcom are interested in getting two fundamental parts of Intel. TSMC is preparing an offer that would allow you to control Intel integrated circuit manufacturing plants with the purpose of developing your manufacturing infrastructure Beyond Taiwan’s borders. On the other hand, Broadcom is also preparing an offer to get the integrated circuit design and marketing divisions of Intel. In any case, if the TSMC initiative will finally prosper will stumble The opposition of the government led by Donald Trump. Currently it is unlikely that the administration approves the purchase of such an important division of an American company by a foreign company. Discordant voices are being raised within Intel Ben Sell, Vice President of Intel Technology Development, confirmed At the end of last September that the 18A node already has the maturity necessary to enter large -scale production in 2025. and also assured that it will benefit from the resources that have been reallocated since the 20A node. In the current scenario the 18A node will be the true protagonist. In fact, and this is really important, Intel has confirmed which will receive a maximum of 3,000 million dollars within the framework of the ‘Chips and Science Act’ program to manufacture semiconductors for the US government in a reliable way. The 18A node is the best opportunity that Intel has to resume the course and improve its competitiveness The name of this plan, “Safe Enclave”, reflects one of the requirements required by the Administration: Chips must occur in the strictest confidentiality. And, as we can intuit, these integrated circuits will be manufactured in the 18A node. Definitely this integration technology is the best opportunity that Intel has for resume course and improve your competitiveness. In fact, voices are being raised within the company itself that demand a little patience to give this node the opportunity to place Intel on the path of recovery. This statement by Joseph Bonetti, main manager of Intel engineering programs, expresses this vision very well: “Intel leaders, Board of Directors of Intel and Donald Trump’s administration, please do not sell or give the control of Intel Foundry to TSMC just when Intel is taking the technological front and starting to take off. It would be a terrible and demoralizing error” . Bonetti also maintains that Intel is not lagging for its competitors, and that the advances that their engineers are achieving in the field of chips production are very important. At the current situation there is no doubt that the 18A integration technology is the best Intel asset to recover health, but it is important that we do not overlook that its technicians have been calibrating more than a year and adjusting their first lithography equipment of extreme ultraviolet (UVE) and haute opening manufactured by ASML. Intel has them in its Hillsboro plant (USA). The first tests with this machine presumably carried out them at the end of 2024, and in 2025 the preliminary tests that pursue to manufacture circuits integrated in the 14A node will begin. It sounds exciting. We will follow the track to this machine very closely to keep you aware of all progress. Image | Intel More information | Tom’s hardware In Xataka | Bill Gates has radiographed Intel. And his diagnosis is overwhelmingly accurate

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