China has been cultivating Stem talent in silence for 40 years. Today has the most coveted quarry on the planet

For decades China has been the great factory of the world, but in parallel the country silently prepared another revolution: that of its Stem engineers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Chinese leadership in graduates in these technical disciplines is overwhelming, and every year produces about 3.5 million engineers among which there is a new elite: that of AI engineers. China triumphs with its long -term plan. It all started in the “post-mao” era. After his death and the arrival of Deng Xiaoping, the country suffered a remarkable reform that began with his “four modernizations“And among them, to restore education with a special focus on science and technology. The president highlighted in 1988 how” science and technology are the main productive forces, “and encouraged a unique change. Hai gui. In the mid -80s China began to send a huge number of students to Western countries. The objective: to learn in their universities and achieve training in fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Those students then returned to China in a phenomenon that has been called “Hai Gui” (“sea turtles”). They managed to inspire the following generations when returning to Chinese academic institutions, which gradually became some of the most advanced in the world. Chinese elite universities. It happened for example with the University of Tshinghua, which between 2013 and 2016 was already the university with the highest number of relevant scientific studies (cited) according to a study of The Economist. Behind were prestigious US institutions such as Stanford or MIT. As I explained Yang Bin, vice president of the University of Tsinghua, “those intellectuals (the” hai gui “) played a very important role, changing all the climate, raising the standards.” Money and more money to educate. The long -term plan of the Asian giant has worked, and today they leave their universities 3.57 million Stem graduates a year. In the US the figure is four times lower: 820,000. Education spending It has not dropped from 4% of its GDP In the last 20 years, and the incentives for Chinese academics to publish studies are notable: if they are of great quality and they are published in Western institutions, They can enter $ 100,000 By study. And the AI ​​is now a fundamental focus. Between 2012 and 2022 the budget spending of the Chinese government in education increased from 2.2 billion yuan (268,167 million euros) to 4.85 billion yuan (591,187 million euros), more than double. Several Chinese elite universities They have announced His intention to expand his curricula with the objective of prioritizing the strategic needs of the country, and here the AI ​​- who You start teaching in schools– It’s key. Ten years projects. In that article of The Economist, they also reveal how since 1995 the Chinese government has initiated various projects to revolutionize its educational environment. The call came first PROJECT 211 which aimed to “prepare approximately 100 universities for the 21st century.” Later they were replaced with the so-called “Double First-Class Construction”, and under Xi Jinping in 2016, which further promoted technical certifications and high training of Chinese technical universities. IA superstars. We have four good examples of all that great reform. Shengjia Zhao, Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu and Shuchao Bi are Superestrellas of the AI. Especially after target “Straight” in Openai’s house and steal them tempting them with stratospheric salaries. They all have something important in common: their training. Talent theft. Zuck confirmed these days in an internal statement Filtrated by CNBC Those signings. There were 11 engineers, 7 of which come from Openai. In that statement, the formation of a new division of “superintelligence” led by Alexandr Wang was also confirmed. And he, in turn, welcomed four of those new companions we were talking about. Who they are. Their names are not known, but these four engineers have had a very relevant role in the development of AI models in OpenAi. In the internal statement itself there is talk of your work in Openai, which has been the following: Jiahui Yu-Co-Creator of O3, O4-MINI, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4O. He previously directed the perception team in OpenAi and multimodal co -directed in Gemini. SHENGJIA ZHAO-Co-Creader of Chatgpt, GPT-4, all MINI, 4.1 and O3 models. He previously directed synthetic data in OpenAI. It has appeared In some of OpenAi’s product presentations. Shuchao Bi: GPT-4O and O4-MINI voice mode co-creator. He previously directed the subsequent multimodal formation in Openal. Hongyu Ren: GPT-4o cooker, 4O-mini, O1-mini, O3-mini, 03 and O4-mini. He previously directed a postformation group in Openal. 100% Chinese talent. But what is striking here is that as they point out In SCMPthese four engineers share a similar and very significant academic trajectory. All of them trained in prestigious Chinese technical universities, and then continue their studies in academic entities in the United States. They graduate in China, they do doctorate in the US. Zhao graduated from the University of Tshinghua in 2016 and then computer study at Stanford University. Ren graduated at the University of Beijing in 2018 and continued studying at Stanford from 2018 to 2023. Yu was titled at the School of Young Talents from the University of Science and Technology of China and then doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbano-Champaign. And Bi graduated from the University of Zhejiang and then doctorate in mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley. China is the great world engineer quarry. The Asian giant is also in terms of its academic dimension. It is by far the largest world producer of graduates in Stem races (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). They know that well in the US, because Chinese students are the ones who take the highest share of foreign students studying or complete their studies in the US: 20% of all of them come from China. And above all, of AI engineers. A report of the Paulgo Institute of Chicago (USA) recently revealed that 38% of AI experts that develop their professional career in the US They have formed in Chinese universities. … Read more

Spain was not one of the first to step on Antarctica, but now it has one of the most coveted laboratories on the continent

The Antarctica It is a huge frozen desert, but also one orUnique portunity for research. Spain is one of the more than 30 countries that have Bases in the territory And one of them, Gabriel de Castilla’s, has just been extended to be able to carry out a broader range of projects. The peculiarity is that its construction has been carried out in record time and will allow a boost to the investigation of the Climate change and the Biodiversity With a particularity: Spanish is one of the three clean laboratories on the continent. Only. We have been decades studying Antarctica From the air. Is what is allowing us to know What is it under that layer of icebut we also have been studying at Antarctica from the ground. He Antarctic Treaty of 1959 It is the one that allowed different countries to establish bases on the continent, exclusively for peaceful and scientific purposes. However, before that there were already bases such as Orcadas base from Argentina, which were operating continuously in the field. The reason is that it is a Single scenario For research. Not only for its diversity or for the dry atmosphere that allows to install advanced astronomical observatories, but because we can reconstruct the climate of hundreds of thousands of years thanks to the air bubbles trapped in the ice and, above all, it is a Climate change thermometer. Spanish Antarctica. We owe several findings to the field research, being one of the most notable the discovery of the ozone layer in 1985. As a result of those agreements, Spain could establish Two bases in Antarctica. The most veteran is the Juan Carlos i. It was inaugurated in early 1988 and is operated by the CSIC. It is not busy all year, but maintains automated records when there is no one and supports projects of areas such as biology, geology, weather and glaciology. The other is the Gabriel de Castillaopened a year later and operated by the Army. Its operation area is diverse, with research in the fields of earth sciences (geomagnetism, volcanic surveillance or geomorphology, among others), biological sciences (ecology, ethology or microbiology), environmental sciences (climate change) and disciplines such as physics, mathematics or biochemistry. Gabriel de Castilla. Like Juan Carlos I, this base is not always busy. Spanish work is limited to the months of the Southern summer, which occurs between December and March, and its location is unique because it is next to one of the two active volcanoes of Antarctica. This makes it a unique enclave to study geological processes and extreme ecosystems. But it seems that the base fell short, so a new scientific module has been built. In the upper image we see what the base was like. In the lower one, those small modules have been eliminated to leave the new space. Reform reforms. After an investment of two million euros, the Gabriel de Castilla has been able to expand its surface to about 307 m². Thus, he has been able to improve his equipment thanks to a microscope room, an electricity and electronic space, a sanitary module and a clean laboratory. And we might think that in such an extreme climate the construction would go slow, but no: in 70 days of the plane to having a structure that already expects research equipment. As points The army, 700 panels, 400 profiles, 26 screws and a total of 80 tons of material have been used to create a new module 41 meters long by 7.2 wide and another 7 high. In case you wonder, beyond the heating, the walls have a 50 millimeter polyurethane sandwich -type layer and another 60 millimeter inner layer of rock wool to improve thermal protection. Clean laboratory. But beyond the speed in its construction, the most important thing about the ‘new’ Spanish base in Antarctica is the aforementioned clean laboratory. It is a space designed to minimize external pollution, so research processes can be carried out in a practically aseptic space in which the samples are not contaminated with exterior agents. The protocols are very strict in both cleaning and ventilation and disinfection, and the really important thing is that, of the more than 30 bases present in Antarctica, that of the Gabriel de Castilla is one of the three Clean laboratories from the region. As they detail in This video From El País, it will be shared with Portugal, and one of the objectives will be to analyze pure samples to better understand the human impact on the planet without external interference. Images | Earth Army, Antarctic campaign In Xataka | Some scientists have discovered that Antarctica is raising 5 cm a year. It is not clear if it is a luck or a problem

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