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The bargain Xiaomi has died. Its new era goes through luxury, sports cars and competing in premium

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Xiaomi came into this world promising that the price was a conspiracy. That the absurd margins of Samsung and Apple were arbitrary, that a decent cell phone could cost two hundred bucks and that Democratizing was, in itself, a form of gainr. It worked and grew. It became the third smartphone brand in the world with a 14% global share, not so far from Samsung and Apple. And now, at the MWC in Barcelona, ​​he has set up a stand where there is no trace of that initial promise. There is a Xiaomi 17 Ultra for 1,500 euros with the Leica seal. There is a SU7 Ultra that breaks records at the Nürburgring. and there is a concepts of hypercar electric car called Vision Gran Turismo designed to appear in the PlayStation video game alongside Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes. The Xiaomi of the bargain has not died of success. He died, in part, out of necessity. The numbers tell the story that the statements do not usually explain: The average selling price of their smartphones fell almost three percent in 2025weighed down by the weight of Redmi in international markets. In China, its natural market, closed the year in fourth positionlosing ground to Apple and a Huawei that has returned with force. With an R&D budget that exceeds four billion dollars annually and the pressure to sustain that spending, selling more cheap mobile phones is no longer a viable strategy… …so the move to premium is an Excel thing. The photography with Leica and the SU7 Ultra we already knew them. What’s new in Barcelona is the Vision Gran Turismo, and it is true that it deserves some attention. Xiaomi is the first Chinese manufacturer to join Polyphony Digital’s Vision GT program, a club that for three decades has been the exclusive territory of large European and Japanese houses. The concept itself (a hypercar electric, 900 volt platform, power that could be around 1,900 horsepower…) will never reach production. Xiaomi knows that and we all know it. But that’s not the question. The question is why a company that sells mobile phones, appliances and electric cars dedicates resources to designing a video game car and also creates its physical version. The answer is that The Vision GT is not a product but a positioning statement executed in the only territory where Xiaomi still has no history to defend or expectations to manage: the one of pure fantasy. A place where a brand that Four years ago it didn’t even have a car division. can sit without raising an eyebrow at the same table as Porsche. Some photos of stand from Xiaomi at the MWC explain well where the shots are going: What is not seen because it is covered by people surrounding it is the Vision GT, Xiaomi’s biggest eye-catcher at this MWC. Image: Xataka. What you see when you enter the security area thanks to a convenient press pass. Image: Xataka. The queue to get on the SU7 Ultra is already a classic. Image: Xataka. Cell phones continue to attract glances… but they are not even close to the ones that their cars awaken. Or his car and his concept car. Image: Xataka. The move is very reminiscent of Hyundai when it launched Lexus, although with one difference: Hyundai had the discipline to separate the brands. Xiaomi is trying to ensure that the same logo that for years crowned 150 euro phones now supports an ecosystem that ranges from hypercar to the ultra-premium mobile passing through the connected home. This identity clash remains unresolved. And at the MWC stand it looks great: the main protagonists are Leica, the SU7 Ultra and the Vision GT. Redmi and POCO surely have a big place in the hearts of the staff of the brand, but they do not appear on any display, they are something that the Xiaomi of 2026 does not want to boast about. The bet is serious because the premium margins are much better. The vertical integration that Lei Jun pursues with its own chip, its own operating system, its own AI model, etc., It only makes economic sense if the devices that incorporate them sell at a high price.and the total ecosystem that Xiaomi is buildingfrom the pocket to the living room and from the living room to the garage, generates a blocking effect that the low price segment will never be able to offer. The risk is also serious: luxury always works by accumulation of credibility, a unilateral declaration is not enough, and Xiaomi still carries the shadow of having been for a long time the brand you chose when you couldn’t afford anything else. Or when you could, but you preferred not to, and you clung to that comforting feeling of getting something as good as your neighbor while paying half as much. Convincing that neighbor that you are now worth three times as much is one of the biggest marketing challenges in the tech industry right now. In Xataka | Leica is teaching Xiaomi everything it knows. When the student no longer needs the teacher, the agreement will have fulfilled its function Featured image | Xataka

Multimillion-dollar nannies for families competing for top talent

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In a private villa overlooking the almost unrealistically turquoise waters of the Maldives, Cassidy O’Hagan, 28, slides the bedroom curtain to check if the child is still asleep. He is not on a honeymoon or on vacation. It’s working. Hours earlier, the family had arrived on a private jet from New York. She, as part of the “child care team”, traveled with them. For many young people it may seem like an improbable dream. For her—and for a growing number of people her age—it is simply the strongest alternative to a corporate job market they feel is broken. In a world where layoffs are constant, trajectories are falling apart and artificial intelligence begins to compete for the same office positions, dozens of young people are choosing another path: becoming nannies, personal assistants or private chefs for the ultra-rich. An unexpected work turn that, far from being anecdotal, is becoming a global trend. The rise of “billionaire babysitters.” According to Business Insideryoung people from Generation Z are abandoning traditional careers to work in the world of so-called “private service”: from executive assistants and house managers to drivers, chefs or nannies for ultra-high net worth families. The salaries are impressive. Different reports describe salaries ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 annually for nannies and personal assistants in the United States, and £150,000 or more in the United Kingdom, as The Guardian documents. There are even extreme situations: Fortune described an offer of almost $240,000 for a tutor to prepare a one-year-old for future entry to Eton or an elite university. The message between the lines is clear: high-level domestic service has become one of the most profitable, dynamic and competitive employment sectors of the moment. The wealth that sustains it. Behind the boom there is an obvious explanation: global wealth has multiplied. Added to this is what UBS called “the rise of the common millionaire”: 52 million people in the world own between 1 and 5 million dollars in investable assets. All this wealth needs people: mansions, private jets, megayachts and extensive portfolios of residences require entire teams to operate. In certain epicenters of wealth, demand has skyrocketed to the point of absurdity. The New Yorker documents that in Palm Beach —recently converted into a laboratory of extreme capitalism— the salaries of nannies exceed 140,000 or 160,000 dollars annually, with partial housing included, bonuses and endless hours. The economy is literally being reconfigured around who can pay to delegate any task imaginable. Gen Z against corporatism. The other half of the equation is in the young people. According to the Deloitte reportonly 6% aspire to a managerial position. They seek balance, personal fulfillment and emotional stability. However, as shown a Bankrate surveytheir financial expectations have increased: many believe they need salaries close to six figures annually to feel “free” or “comfortable” financially. The reality of hiring, however, move in the opposite direction: difficulties in finding employment, entry-level salaries that do not cover rent, and companies where AI is already replacing human tasks. Buried in this contrast, many young people are choosing to work for the private service: money, stability, travel, benefits and — for some — the feeling of doing a job more human than any Excel. The price of luxury: what doesn’t appear on Instagram. Behind the extraordinary figures and photographs next to infinity pools, the reality is more complex. According to testimonies collected by Business Insider either The New Yorkerthese jobs are as lucrative as they are demanding. The working hours can exceed 70 or 80 hours per week, and during summers or international tours they are close to 100. “Absolute availability”—24 hours a day for consecutive weeks—is the true currency. And luxury does not lighten the burden: it intensifies it. In some cases, nannies fly first class, participate in exclusive dinner parties, or stay in five-star hotel suites. In others, as The Guardian explainsthey eat separately, they fly in economy class while the parents fly in business or they must follow strict protocols about how to enter a room, where to stand, what to say or what not to say. Added to this is the requirement for absolute discretion. The New Yorker documents confidentiality agreements, control of social networks, household manuals and rules on clothing, schedules or even the type of footwear allowed in certain rooms. The staff lives “on the edge of privacy and anonymity”: they know everything, but they can’t tell anything. And all of this results in a very high cost on an emotional level. Many nannies recognize that this type of employment makes it almost impossible to have children of their own, maintain a relationship or build a stable social circle. One of them sums it up like this, cited by the same medium: “It’s living other people’s lives, not yours.” Where is all this going? Palm Beach, London, New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Monaco. The geographies repeat themselves: where wealth arrives, agencies, waiting lists and competition for the best personnel appear. In some places, the pressure is so intense that qualified staff are in short supply even amid hundreds of applications. Families want experience, discretion, professionalism and, increasingly, university education. Domestic service has stopped being a job: it has become a career. But with this professionalization the distance also grows. They are jobs that require being inside without ever being part of the inside. Closeness without belonging. Intimacy without reciprocity. A silent frontier that defines the era. Meanwhile, another half of the care sector remains trapped on barely living wages. The contrast is brutal: the same system that raises one nanny to $200,000 relegates another, outside the elite circuit, for the minimum wage. What this phenomenon reveals. In a world where young people board megayachts to find the stability that offices no longer offer, the rise of elite nannies and assistants is not a simple job change. It’s a symptom. It speaks of an economy that is organized around those who can pay for time, attention and affection. It speaks of a generation that, … Read more

If this week you do not find who fixes your phone, maybe he is competing in the mobile repair World Cup

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If something can be gamified, we are going to gamify it. It is the best way to turn a daily task into something fun. Not surprisingly, there is a World Cup to collect garbage in Japan -How no-, but it is also something that allows demonstrating the skills in a program that many use, but not so many dominate: The World Cup. Cut by the same pattern is the CGC World Cupa competition that has become the World Cup to repair mobiles. It is an event in which knowledge is shared, workshops are held and in which the main course is a fight repairing a smartphone under very strict rules. CGC World Cup. During the last months, in countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Egypt or Indonesia, the qualifying phases of this competition have been held. The best talents of each region came with the hope of taking one of the squares in the final that will be held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou Los next September 17 and 18and it will be then when they have to expose their skills in front of the public and a professional jury. 20 minutes. That is the time that participants have in the tests. The competition seeks excellence both in the precision of labor and in the most difficult in these conditions: to fulfill the clock. The evidence is nothing unknown to competitors: Screen reconditioningwhich includes the replacement of damaged glass. CPU microsoration, such as the replacement of welding spheres. Repair of other terminal components, such as Wi-Fi modules or more common elements in repair workshops. In each job there is a counter and a red button that the participant clicks when it is over. At that time, the jury comes to verify the correct performance in the evidence. There are evidence from two hours 40 minutes Nothing easy. They are situations in which we seek to simulate daily work in a workshop like we can go to to repair our smartphone, but the demand is that the greatest precision is sought at work and, above all, to fulfill a time that is really adjusted (it is not the same in your workshop than in a streaming and with people judging your work at half a meter). As if that were not enough, there are factors that influence the “game.” For example, temperature. Professional attendees to the event comment They have air conditioning, yes, but precisely a temperature that they do not control can make their times vary because they may be more accustomed to higher temperatures in the workshop where they usually work and, even if they are a few degrees, it is something that can affect processes like him receptive. In addition, each professional is accustomed to their tools (some even customize them), but in the GCG World Cup they all compete with the same weapons. The mobile repair Messi. If the mobile lights, it is functional and the work has been done with maximum precision, leaving the smartphone in optimal conditions, wins. These events have also had their controversies, but in terms of experience, it is not only a competition, but a meeting point for the more top professionals of mobile repair worldwide, with panels and courses live. It is also an interesting meeting point for brand tools and distributors brands, so a synergy is created between the different legs of the sector. The truth is that these videos of people performing microsolduras attract a lot of attention, and many of those professionals that we see on YouTube are those who compete and attend these events. Among all, it stands out Wyman Lauconsidered the best ‘repair’ of smartphones in the world and what is a show see to work. In the video below you are performing microsolures between processor pins A17 PRO of the iPhone 15 Pro. It is a repair of the most advanced. It is called ‘CPU Jumper’ and consists of bridging two specific points of the integrated circuit of the CPU by means of a conductive thread, and it is something that is done when it is detected that one of the clues of the processor has been damaged by a fall, humidity or excess heat. Wyman Lau, with its G-Lon brand, is one of the top exponents of the CGC World Cup and someone who has been seen in the events. The World Cup problem of mobile repair? That, as a public that attends live, or you look at the screen on which it is broadcast or surely do not find out about anything if you look directly at competitors, since they do work at the microscopic level. Images | CGC World Cup Egypt, CGC World Cup In Xataka | The World Cup to the Comba exists, it is a hilarious thing and for us the question is obvious: what do the breath expect

We do not even know if Trump’s ‘golden dome’ can be built, but there are already companies competing for the contract of the century

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At the beginning of the year we began to talk about the ‘golden dome’ or ‘Golden Dome’. It is the name of the antimile shield that Donald Trump wants to build For the United States. It seems that the thing is serious and that has intensified competition among many military technology companies that want a piece of the cake. The golden dome. Unlike antimile systems such as The Israeli iron domeTrump’s proposal is that he would use a satellite network capable of stopping Hypersonic missiles. Experts soon Show your skepticismarguing that it is not possible to create a shield that covers the entire territory as in Israel, a country 400 times smaller than the United States. The details of how it will be achieved do not seem to import Donald Trump, which in May assured that “we will have the best system ever built.” A very juicy cake. It is not clear how it is going to be built or if it is possible to do so, but the plan is that it is finished before this legislature ends, with the first test planned by the end of 2028. According to the administration, its construction will cost 175,000 million dollars, of which 25,000 million have already been invested. Business parade. As reported in the New York Timesmany companies are already doing tests to show their capabilities and be part of this project. This is the case of Varda Space Industries, the Californian startup created by Spacex former employees that was dedicated to manufacturing drugs in space. In May they did a test to demonstrate that they are not only able to track hypersonic missiles, they can also calculate their trajectory and that they can be intercepted. The Wild West. Companies that are selected will ensure a privileged position in the American defense. In statements to New York Times, Mark Montgomerydirector of a group of defense experts in Washington, said that “there are more than 100 companies with sensors, satellites or other devices that want to sell to the golden dome (…) this is the wild west, and it is a huge opportunity for those who are selected.” Several layers. The antimisile shield will have several layers, three land and one spatial, according to Reuters reported. The space shield will be the most complex part from the technological point of view and where many of these companies are focusing. In April we already talk about Spacex had proposed its technology for the creation of the golden dome. It is a network of up to 1,000 satellites to detect missiles and another 200 armed with missiles or lasers to destroy them before they reach their goal. Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industriestwo technological companies dedicated to defense, were also part of this initiative. Images | Wikipedia, Picryl In Xataka | The US has decided to try if Elon Musk was right. So he has placed two cybertruck in the desert as the target of his missiles

It’s not just talking, it’s really competing in conversation with Chatgpt and Gemini

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Anthropic has become one of the key names in the artificial intelligence career. So much so that Some see her as Apple’s great trick not to be left behind OpenAi or Google. However, his assistant Claude had a pending subject: the voice mode. A function that its main competitors had already integrated and that, finally, It also arrives at the Anthropic app. With this incorporation, Claude takes an important step to compete on equal terms. Claude already speaks: This is how the new voice mode works. Claude’s new voice mode allows you to hold complete conversations spoken from the mobile app, available both in iOS and Android. It is not simply to issue commands: Claude now responds in voice, shows the key points on the screen while speaking and maintains the context of the conversation even if it skips between voice and text. This function, which is only available in English, will be deployed in the coming weeks for all users, including those of the free version. Even so, payment plans offer more voice messages per session and access to advanced functions, such as integration with Google Calendar, Gmail or Google Docs (the latter exclusive for business users). Among the controls included are options to interrupt Claude’s response, send spoken messages, or easily change between ways. In addition, you can choose different voices to customize the experience. All chats are saved, just like text conversations, and voice transcription is shown in a summary way. Thought for occupied hands, fast ideas and spoken creativity. Anthropic highlights several scenarios to take advantage of this function: from organizing the day while having breakfast to maintain rain of ideas while walking or cooked. The voice mode seeks precisely that: eliminate the keyboard when the speed of thought brakes. It also allows you to practice interviews or record ideas on the march, something especially useful for creators or professionals who work in motion. To guarantee a fluid experience, the company recommends using the system in environments with little noise and good connection. In addition, it has incorporated security limits: voices are predefined to avoid imitations and the model avoids reproducing literal text to minimize supplant risks. Comparison with OpenAi was inevitable. The arrival of the voice mode to Claude occurs in a context where the bar is higher than ever. Openai has long presumed its advanced voice mode that reminds us of the movie ‘Her’. Other rival services have also opted for audio, such as Google with Gemini Live and Grok, XAIwith a dedicated voice mode in your mobile app. Images | Anthropic In Xataka | “As a pathetic that sounds, chatgpt is my only friend”: more and more people confess to having an AI like friendship

Desperate for competing with Chatgpt, Google has a plan for Gemini to be everywhere: pulling wallet

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We already know how many monthly users GEMINI has: the same as chatgpt in a single week. 350 million people using Google AI compared to the almost one and a half of OpenAi. And if we know something about Google, it has never liked to have competitors. He Progressive replacement of the Google Assistant By Gemini it was a statement of intentions: Google wanted Gemini to be in absolutely all phones. And no, the pulse has not shaken to get the wallet and force the pre -installation of this app. Google, Gemini and Samsung. A profitable exchange. Samsung is, by far, the manufacturer who More is betting on artificial intelligence in mobile territory. And the vast majority of these functions are behind Google, responsible for the Gemini Nano model of which it uses One UI 7. The a priori agreement could seem the classic Google-Manfabricaro android relationship, but Monopoly trial who is facing Google has made it clear that there is something else in between. Google paid Samsung to pre -install Gemini. Peter Fitzgerald, vice president of platforms and associations of Google devices, testified in the Federal Court of Washington as part of the antimonopoly case of the Department of Justice, According to Bloomberg. In his statements, he acknowledges that Alphabet Inc. paid Samsung Electronics Co. to preinstall Gemini on the company’s phones and devices. This contract, with a minimum duration of two years, establishes fixed monthly payments for each device with pre -installed Gemini, and a percentage of the income obtained by Google with the subscription to Gemini’s payment modalities. Paying to install is not legal. One of the keys to this case is in the precedents. In the past Google paid its partners so that its search engine was predetermined, something that was declared illegal. Since 2020, Neither Google Chrome nor the search for Google are the default options on Android. Google also paid Samsung 8 billion dollars for Google Search, Play Store and Google Assistant to be predetermined in Galaxy mobiles. The federal jury analyzed the case ruled that Google I was abusing his power with these policies. The judge will now have to determine whether Gemini’s pre -installation in exchange for money was legal or not. Gemini, Gemini, Gemini. Gemini is not just Google’s artificial intelligence, it is one of the largest doors at the income level that has been opened to the company in recent years. Although Sissie Hsiao herself is still a service without advertising, charge on Google at the head of Gemini, she has acknowledged that Google is the company to “monetize Gemini with ads as soon as possible. “Motorola cannot get rid of its obligations with Google and that is why they cannot change the predetermined assistant on the device.” Similar practices with other brands are reflected in the framework of the same antitrust judgment. Google’s contract with Motorola (Lenovo Group Ltd.) prevented perplexity AI as predetermined assistant on its devices. “A gun in the temple” according to Dmitry Shevelenko, business director in Perplexity. A trial that can change everything. The American justice, together with the constant persecution of Europe to Google for monopoly practices, have managed to make Android a somewhat more open system to third -party developers. If it ends up declaring illegal that Google Preinstal Gemini as an assistant, Google’s plan to compete from you to you with a GPT that quadruples its active users will be difficult to execute. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google Lanza Gemini 2.0 with a gift for users: free access to its reasoning model

The companies of AI know that competing is of losers. All seek to become the AI ​​monopoly

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“If you are creating a company, what you will aspire to create a monopoly and avoid competition. The competition is of losers“. Those words were pronounced by Peter Thiel In a talk that gave Stanford students on October 7, 2014. Who gave way to talk, by the way, It was Sam Altman. During those 50 minutes Thiel – Paypal and Palantir co -confounder, billionaire, successful investor, and obsessed with rejuvenation– It raised precisely that fundamental idea: that all companies aspire to become a monopoly. They do not say it publicly, of course – that entails legal and regulatory problems – but the goal is that. It has happened in multiple cases in the world of technology. Windows is a de facto monopoly in desktop operating systems, Android and iOS are an accepted duopoly in mobile platforms, and Google is an indisputable monopoly in the world of searches. In all those cases, those who have tried to compete – and there have been attempts – have failed. The competition was indeed of losers. Another monopoly in sight: that of AI And here we are facing a situation that reminds us of all the above. In the world of AI we are living fierce competition. One in which dozens of companies try to develop their models and applications of AI to win the items to the others. To become monopolies. OpenAi carries the lead. The question is whether you can maintain that leadership. What model of AI is better than others? It is not entirely clear. The appearance of Grok 3 seems to have opted the balance in its favor, but its theoretical superiority in some tests sounds like the same as other previous releases sounded: if it is really the best, it will not last long to be. In fact, competition between these models has made us in a situation in which, sincerely, they are all quite good. There will be, of course, use cases in which some will stand out on others – this best program, this writes better, this looks better – but everything seems to point to the differences will be less and less evident. The improvements we are seeing in the market are getting smaller and, above all, more expensive. Grok 3 has been trained in the Gigantic Supercluster of XAI with at least 100,000 GPUS H100 of NVIDIA, but despite all those resources and that investment, which has achieved the startup of Elon Musk is to put themselves at the level of its compeditors, not to offer A product that suddenly is remarkably better. The same With the imminent GPT-4.5. What are Ia companies trying now? Two things: Try to make your products simpler to use: Less variety of models, or at least hide that variety, as Openai proposes in the future and simplified chatgpt version. As traditional models do not advance so much, they raise New models reasoning (Deepseek R1, O3-mini) or agents (Operator) that encourage us to pay for increasingly faces. That strategy is once again intended for the same: that their products stand out on the competition and achieve the desired objective: create the next great monopoly. In that race there is for now an outstanding protagonist, at least if we take into account the number of usuals of each model. According to CNBC data and others collected By Ed Zitronthe estimated current situation is as follows: ChatgPPT: 400 million weekly active users Deepseek: 27 million active users monthly Gemini: 18 million active users monthly COPILOT: 11 million active users monthly Perplexity: 8 million active users monthly Claude: 2 million active users monthly Especially the few users that Claude has theoretically, but what is evident is that Today for millions of users IA = chatgpt. Arriving the first here has made the difference for Openai, which has also constantly iterated to maintain that leadership. Will they keep doing it? Will they become the de facto monopoly of AI? Of course they have ballots for it, but it is still very soon to be able to say it. The frantic advance of this technology makes it more difficult than ever who will win the race … if there is only one winner. In fact, here the situation is very different because there are forces that Openai does not control. And they are too relevant forces. Windows: there is 1,400 million active PCs with Windows worldwide. That number includes both Windows 10 Machines with Windows 11. Android: there is 3.5 billion active devices based on Android. iOS/iPados: there is 2,350 million IOS active devices. Do you think Microsoft, Google and Apple are going to let Openai take the cat to the water? Not much less. They will do everything they can so that the AI ​​we use on their devices is yours. That’s why The idyll between Microsoft and OpenAi FLUQUEAand that’s why Google and Apple are little by little –too little by little In the case of Apple – integrating more and more functions of AI in its mobile phones. These companies, de facto monopolies already in their markets, have as clear as Peter Thiel that competition is for losers. They probably have it much clearer, especially because they have been since before Thiel gave their famous talk. We are therefore facing a situation that is analogous to that of the rest of the digital businesses with which we have lived. In the spotify audio streaming world it is almost a monopoly (31.7% share), while in the video the thing is much more distributed for the moment although Netflix stands out. In the world of Electronic Commerce Amazon marks the passage, on social networks to Facebook there are almost no one to have more examples such as Uber, LinkedIn, Match Group (Tinder, Okcupid), or PayPal, which are also clear leaders in their respective markets. Is there competition? Of course. Does competition change things? Normally, not too much: Firefox has not changed them In browsers, mobile operating systems that They tried to give options … Read more

China is a sleeping giant of AI and has many companies competing with each other

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It seems that US companies and startups are the great competitors of the AI ​​segment, but Chinese companies are demonstrating that rivalry is also formidable. He Deepseek impact Of course it has been noticed especially there. And if not, tell Baidu. Ernie was closed and paid. Considered “La Google China”, Baidu was one of the first to launch its own chatbot. Ernie launched In March 2023 and in September I was already available to All audiences. However, the company’s approach was always clear: his generative chatbot was closed, and was paid. But it will soon be free. This week those responsible for Baidu have announced two important changes in their strategy. To start, Baidu will have a free version As of April 1which will allow access to the company’s LLMs. The company had been trying to monetize the service for 17 months, which in China had a monthly price of 49.90 yuan (6.56 euros). And besides, Open Source. But it is also that the company has confirmed that the next generation of its LLM Ernie will use an Open Source license on June 30. It is a turn of the events, because as we have commented from the beginning Baidu adopted a model and license owned for its chatbot. Even Openai seems consider a similar movement. Deepseek changes everything. The reason for these strategy changes is probably due to what has happened with Deepseekthe Chinese startup that launched Deepseek v3 in November and After Deepseek R1 In January. These models were not only free, they were also Open Source, which triggered their popularity by demonstrating that they were really competitive even when comparing them with the best LLM of their competitors in the United States. There, by the way, Depseek’s impact has also been formidable: several of those US rivals have already offered their reasoning models free of charge. Fierce competition in China. Baidu’s decision shows how in China there is also a particular war to lead in AI. Alibaba, without going any further, has just presented The promising Qwen2.5-Maxand Bytedance, who does not conform to Tiktok, is beginning to become a surprising power in the. Other companies such as Tencent or Startups such as MoNshot and O1.AI They are also in that fight, however much their models have to be very socialists. The important thing is that they use you. Baidu seems to recognize that in this battle one of the keys is to achieve some popularity. According to Reuters The most successful chatbot in China is currently Doubao (Bytedance) with 78.6 million monthly users. Deepseek is the second with 33.7 million while Ernie has only 13 million. Ernie 4.5 will arrive soon, but what about the reasoning? In Baidu they currently have ERNIE 4.0, which competes with GPT-4, but will soon launch Ernie 4.5, which will be precisely the one that adopts that license Open Source. What does not seem to have a model of reasoning as Deepseek R1, something surprising again considering that Baidu is a giant with many more resources. One that yes, will surely be moving card so as not to let this juicy market escape. Image | Baidu In Xataka | Deepseek has given the starting gun in the race for a cheaper AI. And China starts with advantage

This is the financial prize that Carlos Alcaraz and Paula Badosa have won for competing in the Australian Open

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The removal of a grand slam for whom there were so many expectations, it is always painful. Carlos Alcaraz and Paula Badosa They leave Australia without being able to raise a situation for which they have been preparing thoroughly.. The Murcian ended his career in Melbourne last Tuesday against Djokovic, while the Catalan tennis player succumbed this Friday morning to Sabalenka. In addition to the prestige of being able to lift the first major of the season, the Australian Open has established some higher economic amounts compared to previous years for those tennis players who advance during the tournament. Before the start of the Grand Slam, lto organization of the Australian Open published the breakdown of the cash prizes for the 2025 edition. The total sum that all tennis players will receive as they advance to the round amounts to 58 million eurosthat is, 12% more than last year, in 2024. It should be noted that all tennis players receive the same amount of money, both on the men’s and women’s sides. As reported by the Australian Open, prize money has increased by 119% from the 26 million euros that were awarded ten years ago. So it has gone up a 36% more in the last five editions. Carlos Alcarazeliminated in the quarterfinals against Novak Djokovic, has been broken down 400,000 euroswhile the Serbian by reaching the semi-final has ensured 660,311amount you have won Paula Badosa after reaching the preliminary round of the final. The prize of the rest of Spaniards The champion of the first Grand Slam of the season in both the men’s and women’s draws will receive something more than two million euros; while the other finalist tennis player will pocket 1,140,537 million. Alexander Davidovichwho reached the fourth round after eliminating Shang Juncheng, Auger-Aliassime and Jakub Mensik, has won 253,000 euros; while Pablo Carrenoeliminated in the second round, has pocketed 120,000 euros. Although the prize money has suffered a considerable increase, the amounts that tennis players receive are far from what was expected. The Australian Open is, along with Roland Garrosthe Grand Slam that distributes the least money among tennis players. Carlos Alcaraz celebrates a point against Novak Djokovic. Reuters The Australian Open is at the top in terms of spectator attendance, which has an impact on the benefits that the tournament acquires. In 2023 it generated 542 million Australian dollars (368.9 million euros), which allowed the country an economic impact of 362.9 million euros. The reason is the currency exchange. The value of the euro and the US dollar has devalued against the Australian currency in recent years

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