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Extremadura promised them very happy with its powerful Spanish tomato industry. Until China arrived

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More than market fluctuationsthe production costs or the rain. If there is something capable of removing the dream from Spanish farmers dedicated to tomato cultivation, China is. The Asian giant is the great tomato garden of the world and it is increasingly difficult to compete with its prices. Hence, in Extremadura, the region that More hectares dedicated to industrial plantations, recognize That today the competition of the Asian vegetable is its “biggest problem.” The big question is … What to expect from now on? Tomato “Made in Extremadura”. If we talk about Spanish tomatoespecially from industry oriented, Extremadura is the king. In the 2023 campaign, the 75% of the surface of cultivation of the country, at a considerable distance from Andalusia (11.3%) and Navarra (7.9%). And the percentage is even greater if we talk about production volume. In 2021 the regional government estimated that the surface dedicated to the crop was around 23,000 hectares. Throughout Spain it was around 31,000. A sector with swings. The tomato industry is powerful, but like many other crops is subject to the fields of the field and the market. In January, for example, Extremaduran farmers They alerted that the price of the fruit was below the cost of production: the vegetable ton was quoted at 107 euros in the private industry and 115 in cooperatives, far from the 140 reached in 2024 or the average cost of production of recent years, which It was 128. “The situation of tomato is unbearable. If urgent measures are not taken, many farmers will be forced to abandon the crop, which will seriously affect the sustainability of the sector and employment in the Extremaduran field,” warned At the beginning of the year Juan Metidieri, president of Aigg Extremadura Asaja. This year the culture surface will be reduced by several hectares, Precise The economistamong other reasons to avoid stock accumulation. China slopes. In the sector there is, however, something that rests so much or more than production costs or fluctuations in the price of the vegetable. Farmers have been concerned for a long time. Heavyweight of the world tomato market, China, which leads the “Top 4” next to the United States, India and Türkiye. According to data from World Population Reviewits production exceeded in 2022 the 68 million tons and a large part of that fruit ends in the world market -oriented market circuit. The problem is not so much the huge production of China and its prices and the pressure they exert in the sector. A few months ago, during An interview with Financial TimesFrancesco Mutti, the executive director of the sauce manufacturer who takes his last name, warned that much of the cheap tomato paste that arrives from China occurs in the Xinjiang region, where companies benefit from “very, very low labor costs.” That panorama and the different requirements facing European and Asian crops They worry Also in Extremadura. “It’s the biggest problem”. Its effect on the market worries so much that Domingo Fernández, president of APIS Group and manager of Agrifood Cooperatives of Extremadura, recognized recently to The economist that right now the Chinese tomato represents “the biggest problem.” The reason? In his opinion, the differences in controls in Spain and China derives in a “unfair competition.” Similar opinion shared Recently in Today José A. Gutiérrez, Farmer: “What we can not compete in the supermarket with products that enter Spain without those limitations. Compites against a Chinese tomato that has no traceability. It requires controls that are not appreciated in the market.” Are you worrying alone in Extremadura? At all. The sector has been on guard for Asian competition for years, something that is seen with concern both in Extremadura and in other regions or countries of Europe. In 2016 the Las Marismas Cooperativa, in Andalusia, He warned Of the challenges that Spanish farmers face: “They ask us for European quality at the price of Chinese tomato, something impossible taking into account the costs for the industry.” If someone has expressed themselves in a resounding and achieved echo manner in the sector, it is, however, the Italian Francesco Mutti, at the head of a business conglomerate dedicated to food that only in 2023 he billed 665 million of euros. Restrictions, tariffs? “We should stop the importation of Chinese tomato paste or add a 60% tax so that its cost is not so different from Italian products,” Mutti advocates before insisting that “more than 90%” of China’s tomatoes occur in Xinjiang, a region subject to scrutiny of the United Nations allegations of Human Rights against the Uigur minority, including episodes of forced labor. “We must protect them”. According to FTin 2024 China monopolized 23% of the global tomato production, several points above 18% of the previous year. Its production is also much cheaper: Chinese tomato paste costs about half that created in Italy. “We must teach our farmers to grow better, but also protect them from unfair competition. Otherwise, the result will not be a better environment, but to transfer our production abroad,” Mutti advocateswho has already sent his concerns to Brussels. The panorama, Remember Antonio Lucas MarínProfessor of Sociology and Economist, it does not seem simple: China The flow of Chinese tomato paste has been growing after the increase in energy and fertilizers in Europe. In the case of Extremadura, Asian competition will not be felt alone in Spain. The export community Thousands of tons of prepared or preserved tomato. “The Extremadura Tomato Transformation Industries have become the leading agri -food export sector Extremadura, ahead of the fruit. More than 80% of the total is allocated to the export market, with prominent markets such as France, the United Kingdom or Germany among many others,” he says A report on the production and economic footprint of the sector published in 2022. Images | Sue Thompson (Flickr), /Ricardo (UNSPLASH) and Lid (Flickr) In Xataka | The science of finding tomatoes that really know Tomate, that increasingly elusive holy grail

Buying a powerful gaming laptop today can get much cheaper. New offer in this MSI with RTX 5070 ti

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Today the good ends. Mediamarkt’s website ends in less than 24 hours (on July 24 at 09:00 hours) in style with the latest discounts, this time in MSI products. We have already talked about Huge MSI monitorand now it’s the turn of MSI VECTOR 16a very powerful gaming laptop that had never been so cheap in the store: by 1,698.30 euros By adding it to the store cart instead of the usual 2,399 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review A powerful gaming computer with a discount The MSI Vector 16 that has a Mediamarkt offer stands out first for the price, since it had never had it so cheap (its biggest discount to date left it at 1,998 euros). But also does it because it is a gaming laptop With one Very top configuration to play video games. This gaming computer is quite large by having a 16 -inch IPS screen. Its panel offers a QHD+ resolution (2,560 x 1,600 pixels) and an excellent 240 Hz refreshment rate. In addition, internally the processor mounts Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX. To this we must add that it comes along with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSDfor what as a whole you can with any game at high quality to guarantee a good FPS rate. On the other hand, we cannot forget that the laptop comes with a graphics RTX 5070 TI. Of course, what does not include is operating system, so it does not come with Windows 11 Home. You may also be interested in these peripherals Razer Basilisk V3 x Hyperspeed – Mouse da Gioco Wireless Personalizzabile (Ergonomic form with 9 Controlli Customizabili, Hyperspeed Wireless, Bluetooth, Advancement Sensore 5g 18K) Nero * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech G G435 Lightspeed wireless headphones for gaming, light, integrated microphone, 18 -hour battery, compatible with Dolby Atmos, Bluetooth, PC, PS4, PS5, Mobile, Nintendo Switch – Black * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | MSI In Xataka | Best Ultrabooks: Which buy and 13 Light Portables Recommended from 300 to 2500 euros In Xataka | Better laptops in quality price: which to buy based on the use and nine recommended models

Nvidia cannot sell her most powerful chips to China for sanctions. So you have found a plan B: Risc-V

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Nvidia has announced that Its CUDA platform will be compatible with RISC-V processors. He has done so during the Risc-V Summit in China and the chosen place is not accidental: this announcement clearly points to the Chinese market. For the first time, the technology that allows applications to communicate with the NVIDIA GPUs will be extended beyond ARM and X86, towards an open source architecture. Why is it important. CUDA It is the software that operates the Nvidia’s ecosystem. Without a CUDA, the GPU would lose much of their parallel calculation apacities. That Nvidia opens this technology to RISC-V It means that processors based on this open architecture can now serve as the main CPU in NVIDIA GPU systems. The background. The announcement, in addition to making in China, comes while China is accelerating its efforts to reduce its dependence of western processors. Nvidia can’t sell your most powerful models GB200 and GB300 to China for US sanctions, so in this way finds a way to maintain relevant Cuda in the Chinese market. Between the lines. There is a lot of geopolitical strategy in this decision: NVIDIA has been integrating RISC-V nuclei for years into its own GPU for low-level control tasks. Now it makes the jump to support RISC-V as the main processor. And that responds to a reality: if China is going to develop its own processors using open architectures, Nvidia wants to be there from the beginning. In detail. The configuration shown by NVIDIA shows a heterogeneous system: The GPU handles parallel loads. The RISC-V processor executes the CUDA controllers and the application logic. And a DPU manages network tasks. This architecture allows you to orchestrate GPU computations completely within the CUDA environment, something impossible so far with RISC-V. Deepen. Historically, Nvidia has behaved Cuda to each important architecture: X86, ARM, PowerPC and even Sparc de Sun. The company understands that it must be present from the first day on any platform that can take off in the business sector. With a value already exceeding 4 billion dollarsNvidia can afford to bet on all promising architectures. And now the movement positions RISC-V as a viable alternative for future designs of AI processors and high performance computing. If the stars align, other manufacturers could follow the example of Nvidia. And that would accelerate the adoption of RISC-V in data centers beyond China. Outstanding image | Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | On his way to the authentic quantum supremacy, China has set an objective: a “real” quantum computer before 2030

Samsung is committed to fighting with nails and teeth the most powerful mobile chip race. The perfect candidate finally has

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The world of semiconductors has a look set on the next generation of integrated circuits manufactured in lithographic processes of 2 nm. Meanwhile, the most advanced processors for mobile phones continue to use the 3 Nm processes. Giants such as TSMC have demonstrated their good work with proposals such as Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elitehe Apple A18 Pro Apple, and even the Xiaomi Xring 01. Now it is Samsung’s turn. The company has presented its Exynos 2500and it is much more than a processor. It is the company’s great opportunity to dissipate doubts about the performance of its mobile chips, one of the keys for the company’s semiconductor division to remain alive. Between surrender and reinvent the design of its highest range mobile processors, Samsung has chosen the second option. Why is it important. The Samsung Exynos 2500 It has been playing since last yearwith a production that did not enter into mass for the low performance he showed in the leaked tests. Going forward with the proposal does not show only that Samsung trusts this proposal: it is a message to the world about the point where they are and can become semiconductors. The company has not revealed what device this processor will premiere but, taking into account that there are Rumors on the table about a new unpackedit is more than likely to know him soon. The exynos 2500. I will not get bored with excessive technical data from the processor. Your keys are summarized in a simple way. It has a ten -core design, just like Xiaomi’s own processor. It is the only high -end processor, next to the Xring, with this design. It is its greatest particularity. Promises to be 39% more powerful in the process of AI. Supports cameras of up to 320 megapixels. It is built in the 3 Nm GAA process. Its largest nucleus is up to 15% more powerful than its predecessor. The main doubts are how these numbers will be translated in real use. Its architecture is quite similar to that of Xiaomi Xring (with Cortex X925, A725 and A520) and a Samsung Xclipse 950 GPU that will have to compete with the best adreno. The message. Ten -core CPU, cameras of 320 MPenergy efficiency and improvements in AI. Samsung has not fallen excessively Marketinians nor has he made promises that he cannot fulfill. It is a more powerful processor than the previous one, centered on AI and with support for the best technologies of the moment. The rest is about to prove. The key to Samsung. Samsung has been facing problems with its semiconductor division for years. Lose clients like Google To provide the pixel with their processor, it is one of the most recent blows, and survive to arrive with decent performance to the 2 Nm career is crucial for the future of the company. The company has delayed two of its most important projects today: the construction of its second manufacturing plant of avant -garde chips in Taylor (USA) and in Pyeongtaek (South Korea). They are projects that are still underway And they will be key to the development of their semiconductors but … it will use without customers. Exynos 2500 is the most recent test of the point where Samsung is in mobile chips. If it fails, the company will have it more difficult than ever to continue attracting investment. Image | Xataka, Samsung

Scientists have a new very powerful tool to fight Alzheimer’s and Parkinson: quantum computers

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To solve most of the problems that scientists expect to be able to address in the future with Quantum computers capable of amending their own mistakes, such as optimization, those in the field of cryptography or artificial intelligenceit will be necessary have several million cubits. It can even, that hundreds of millions of cubits. The most advanced quantum processor currently IBM has itand it has just over a thousand cubits, so it is evident that many technological challenges remain that it is necessary to solve. The interesting thing is that there is no single way to go through this path. Organizations that are investigating in the field of quantum computing work in several different cubits technologiesand each of them is in a different degree of development. IBM, Intel and Google are some of the big companies that have opted for superconductor cubits, but also do so smaller ones, such as Atlantic Quantum, IQM, Anyon Systems, Rigetti Computing or Bleximo. In fact, if we stick to the number of companies that are working on this type of quantum bits it is reasonable to conclude that this is the technology that has greater support and greater investment, so, in some way, it is the one that goes in the lead. This strategy is probably what will help us to have more cubits, but it is also more prone to make mistakes than ion traps cubits, which are one of the alternatives to superconductors. In addition, these last cubits are characterized by working at a temperature of about 20 millikelvin, which are approximately -273 degrees Celsius, with the purpose of operating with the greater degree of isolation of the possible environment. Ion traps are given great proteins Ion traps are currently the main alternative to superconductor cubits. This is the technology in which they are working, among other companies, Ionq and Honeywell, and is characterized by using ionized atoms, and, therefore, with a non -neutral global electric charge. This property allows them to be isolated and confined inside an electromagnetic field, although this is only the starting point. From here Ionq acts on the quantum state of its cubits with ion traps cooling them to reduce the level of computational noise and uses lasers just then to operate with them. However, it does not use a single laser; Use one for each ionand also a global laser that acts on all of them simultaneously. Honeywell also uses ionized and laser atoms, but the procedure used to establish the intertwining between two ions and act on them with a laser is different from that used by Ionq. For scientists it is crucial to understand the folding of proteins that triggers Alzheimer’s or Parkinson Parkinson Precisely a team of researchers from this last company and the German emerging company specialized in quantum quantum computing To do something amazing: Solve protein folding problems with up to 12 amino acids. To carry it out they designed a quantum optimization method that seeks to find the optimal configuration of protein folding. Expressed in this way it seems complex, and it is, but the really important thing, and with what is worth it, it is that these quantum computers thanks to the appropriate algorithm are able to help scientists Understand the protein folding mechanism that triggers diseases such as Alzheimer’s or the Parkinson. And understand this phenomenon well is the first step towards the elaboration of effective treatment. This result is very promising, but there is still a lot of work to do so that quantum computers help us in front of these diseases. On the one hand, folding models must evolve to be more reliable and realistic. And, in addition, the classic algorithm that is responsible for refining the results delivered by the quantum algorithm should be more precise. Even so, the work of these researchers is an exceptionally promising starting point. Image | Ionq More information | Arxiv In Xataka | Quantum computers threaten encryption technologies. This is the reason why we do not have to panic

Aliexpress’s summer promo starts with very powerful discounts on mobile phones, tablets and more devices

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There are many users who, when they seek to renew one of their devices, usually expect very specific dates, such as Black Friday. These promos usually bring chollos and offers of all kinds, although the negative part is that they are only held at specific times of the year. The good news is that the different stores also launch promos the rest of the year And now he has touched Aliexpress. From yesterday until June 25 at 23:59 we have available your Summer promoan event loaded with very good offers in technology. In addition to these, we also have at our disposal A series of discount coupons To save even more in our carts: code discount Minimum purchase ES02 2 euros 15 euros ES04 4 euros 29 euros ES10 10 euros 69 euros ES20 20 euros 139 euros SSES30 30 euros 199 euros ES40 40 euros 279 euros SSES45 45 euros 309 euros ES50 50 euros 349 euros ES60 60 euros 439 euros All these discount coupons cannot be used combined nor are they valid for virtual products or other promotions. In addition to the above, we have others available that, in this case, can only be used with products that Miravia sells through Aliexpress: Code discount Minimum purchase Master153 3 euros 15 euros Master5910 10 euros 59 euros MES400 80 euros 599 euros An event loaded with chollos in technology As we say, there are few offers that we have available right now in this summer promo. To facilitate the work, we leave you down a selection of the most prominent that are still available. Little x7 proa smartphone with a great value for money, by 219.99 euros. Bose Quietcomfort SC headphonesof headband and with good autonomy, by 124.29 euros With the ES20 code. OnePlus Watch 3with 1.5 -inch screen and an elegant design, by 183.49 euros With the SSES30 code. Galaxy Tab A9+a very economical tablet to study or work, for 119.99 euros With the ES20 code. Nintendo Switch Pro commandcompatible with Nintendo Switch 2, by 49.66 euros with the ES04 code. Little x7 pro We start with him Little x7 proa telephone that stands out for a very high money ratio (and more, with this offer). 6.67 inches AMOLED screen with 3,200 nits peak shineinsured power with the dimensity 8400 ultra of MediaTak and a considerable battery of 6,000 mAh. In addition, it has a good double camera photographic system. It is available by 219.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Bose Quietcomfort SC If we are looking for headband headphones, these Bose quietcomfort scs perfect us. They stand out for being light, for offering a sound at brand height And for having a good noise cancellation. In addition, we can also configure them in their ‘Aware’ mode to be aware of what happens around us. Available by 124.29 euros With the ES20 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review OnePlus Watch 3 He One Plus Watch 3 It is a smartwatch with a classic cut design, but has enough characteristics to get our attention. Its 1.5 -inch screen is protected by sapphire crystal and has a peak shine of 2,200 nits, so we will be able to see it out of problems without problems. We cannot forget that it also has a good number of sensors to be able to control our health and our training to the millimeter. It comes out by 183.49 euros With the SSES30 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review Galaxy Tab A9+ You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a tablet at home and this Galaxy Tab A9+ It is the test. It is a manageable and comfortable device to use, both for work and leisure. It has a 11 -inch screen (with 90 Hz) and a 7,040 mAh battery to offer us good autonomy. Besides, It is compatible with Dolby Atmos soundideal to watch series or movies. We can acquire it for 119.99 euros With the ES20 code. Galaxy Tab A9 + (4 + 64 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Nintendo Switch Pro command We close with the Pro Nintendo Switch Uno command, which It is compatible with Nintendo Switch 2. It is a wireless and very comfortable command to use, ideal if we seek to have a traditional experience in the Nintendo console. The best thing is that the summer promo leaves it at a price that is not easy to find: it goes out for 49.66 euros with the ES04 code. Pro Nintendo Switch command * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Aliexpress, little, Bose, OnePlus, Samsung, Nintendo In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

The first quantum computer with error correction already has date. It is close and will be 20,000 times more powerful than the current

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It seems that in the end Israeli mathematician Gil Kalai was wrong. This professor at Yale University has been very critical for several years with Quantum computing. In fact, he argues that the increase in the number of states of quantum systems and their complexity will cause They end up behaving like classic computersso the superiority of the former will end up evaporating. It defends, in short, that totally functional quantum computers They will never arrive. However, we currently have very solid reasons to anticipate otherwise. And there are several companies that ensure that they will have a quantum machine equipped with the ability to amend your own mistakes Before I expire this decade. These computers will be very important because they will presumably have the ability to solve a very wide range of problems with which not even the most powerful classic supercomdators available can deal. Just a week ago we told you that Xanadu, a young Canadian company founded in 2016, Plan to have ready before 2030 A quantum computer of one million phototonic ulna with error correction. However, it is not the only company that intends to make this milestone come true. IBM plans to make available to its customers in 2029 ‘Starling’, its first large -scale quantum computer equipped with the ability to amend their own mistakes. It will execute 20,000 times more operations than current quantum computers IBM is going to build The quantum computer ‘Starling’ in a new data center that will be housed in Paughkeepsie, New York (USA). This machine will bring together 200 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 100 million quantum operations. Logical cubits represent a way to overcome the difficulty involved in the use of hardware or physical cubits, which are extremely noise sensitive, and, therefore, prone to make mistakes. Each logical ul Each logical cubit is constructed abstractly on several physical or hardware cubits, so that a single logical cubit encodes a single cubit of quantum information, but with redundancy. It is precisely this redundancy that allows detect and correct errors that are present in physical cubits. Until very recently the number of hardware cubits that was necessary to implement a single logical cubit immune to errors was impracticable, but IBM says it has found the solution to this problem. Their engineers have published two very interesting technical articles in which they develop the strategy they will use to bring to fruition their large -scale quantum computer and error correction. In the first These articles explain what procedure will continue to process instructions and execute operations in an efficient way. AND In the second They describe how they will decode the information that physical cubits contain in an efficient way, and also what strategy they will use to identify and correct real -time errors using conventional computational resources. As I mentioned a few lines above, IBM says that ‘Starling’ will be ready in 2029, but before its arrival this company expects to reach other important milestones. At the end of 2025 ‘Quantum Loon’ will prove the technology used to connect cubits to a larger distance Within a single chip. In 2026 ‘Kookaburra’ it will be the first IBM modular processor designed to store and process coded information. In 2027 ‘Cockatoo’ will arrive to demonstrate that it is possible to intertwine two ‘Kookaburra’ modules, and, consequently, that it is viable to connect several quantum chips such as nodes of a larger platform. And finally, after ‘Starling’ will arrive ‘Blue Jay’, which will bring together 2,000 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 1 billion quantum operations. Image | IBM More information | IBM In Xataka | Bitcoin encryption and other cryptocurrencies will fall. And those responsible will be quantum computers

The most powerful telescope in Europe has seen something rare while observing two brown dwarfs: a perpendicular planet

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Today, in things that we did not know that there were in other star systems: a planet that orbits perpendicular to its two stars. It is as strange as it sounds. A different planet. We have seen everything in the exotic exoplanet gallery that the observable universe offers us, but a new surprise has forced astronomers to readjust their expectations. Using the Vary Large Telescope del Southern European Observatory (ESO) In Chile, astronomers have found the first exoplanet known in a polar orbit around a binary system of stars: two young brown dwarfs. Orbiting at 90 degrees. Baptized as 2m1510 (AB) B, this world has two Tatooine style soles, something extremely common when it comes to more massive stars, but not so much in the case of brown dwarfs. However, what is common is that orbits its two host stars in a way that until now had only theorized: turning perpendicular to them, in a polar orbit of 90 degrees. We sensed that they could exist. Astronomers had already detected planetary training discs in polar orbite and theory suggested that They could form stable planetsBut finding them was another story. 2M1510 (AB) B is the first credible test that this configuration exists. And the most curious thing is that the team was not actively looking for this type of planet, they found it while refining the orbital and physical parameters of the two brown dwarfs, seeing that the path of the two stars was being pushed and pull in unusual ways. It is not a usual system. The planet is not the only rare in this neighborhood, taking into account the host stars. Brown dwarfs are larger than giant giant planets, but too small to maintain nuclear fusion which characterizes the stars “really”. But the rarity does not end there. These brown dwarfs form an eclipsest binary, which means that from Earth we can see how they hide each other. 2M1510 (AB) is an incredibly infrequent system: the second pair of eclipsessing brown dwarfs known to date. With more than 5,800 exoplanets confirmed to date, only about 16 orbit around two stars. That one of them does precisely around a system as atypical as a binary of eclipsessing brown dwarfs, and with a polar orbit, it is a real cosmic jewel. Image | THAT In Xataka | These real images were unthinkable before the Webb Telescope: they are planets orbiting other stars to 130 light years

There is a career to achieve the cheapest and most powerful model. And against all prognosis, China is winning it

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On May 20 Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash in preliminary version. These new AI models were better than ever, and to demonstrate the company included in its announcement several graphs and comparative tables. They looked at how both surpassed their rivals both in the field of reasoning and in the traditional performance (Benchmarks of Mathematics or Programming), but there was also another fact that Google presumed: Google: The cost of Gemini 2.5 Flash. Source: Google. That table published by Google made it clear that Gemini 2.5 Flash It was clearly the winner of that comparison in the important price/benefits ratio. What Google did not say is that this success of this model was the exception to the rule, because in that race for having cheap and powerful models, China seems to take the lead. He does it at least if we attend to the cost of using these models. In Xataka we have analyzed that cost based not on the price of subscriptions for end users, but on the cost of access to the API, which is the one that allows developers to integrate these models into their own chatbots and their services. The API prices of each model clearly differentiate two uses from artificial intelligence. On the one hand, how much does it cost to write something for the model to then process it (the so -called input tokens). On the other, how much does the text generated by the model once processed the answer (the so -called output tokens). The entrance tokens They are usually five times cheaper than exitbecause processing the request and generating text is much more expensive than receiving it, analyzing and “understanding it.” We wanted to compare the cost of the main models of the AI ​​developed in China and those of the US, and although as always are not all that are, if they are all. The resulting table is as follows: These prices are public and very easy to find in the case of US AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) but not so much in the case of Chinese models (Deepseek, Qwen (Alibaba), Doubao (Bytedance), GLM-4 (Zhipu), Ernie (Baidu)). Be that as it may, the table, ordered from the cheapest to the most expensive, demonstrates that today Chinese models are especially cheap. Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview manages to compete – and does it exceptionally. In the rest of the cases, the AI ​​models in China win the battle for cost. It must be noted that, Like all comparisons, this is unfair. And it is because that table does not take into account the benefits of each model. Openai O3 and Anthropic Claude Opus 4, the last and most powerful models of those companies, are especially precise in their answers, but each consultation consumes much more resources (computation, energy) and that makes it logical that they are much more expensive than their competitors. But these models are also designed for very special cases and for specialized, detailed and deep consultations. In the vast majority of cases it is not necessary to use these models, and that is where they are competing for example Deepseek R1 or Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview: in the price/benefits ratio. Models with variable prices That price battle has made us see in recent times two techniques that some companies are applying to the prices of use of their APIs. The first one is to differentiate normal entries and outputs of inputs (and even exits) cache. Deepseek API prices. Attentive to the lower left: according to the time you use them, they can leave cheaper. Source: Deepseek. The explanation is simple: a “normal” entry is a request or question that the model has never processed and therefore has to process completely. If the entrance has been caught (Cache hit) is because that request has been processed in the past, so the system can obtain the response of its cache, which significantly reduces the computational costs. Deepseek, Google, Anthropic and Openai offer this type of option, as can be seen in the table. The second technique is to use variable prices according to (at the moment) the time slot in which we use these models. This is what Deepseek has done, which has “day” and “night” prices according to UTC schedule. If you use the Depseek API from 18:30 to 2:30 (Peninsular schedule in Spain), it will be half price. Good news: AI is every time (much) cheaper While China and the US fight who has the most powerful model or who has the cheapest model, what is constantly happening is that the AI ​​price is falling remarkably. It is an observation that several experts such as Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who recently analyzed how That price/benefits ratio does nothing but improve. The models are getting better and cheaper. Other experts such as Raveesh Bhalla – explained by Netflix and LinkedIn – also reflected this evolution at the beginning of the year. Then he showed how the cost of an O1 level model had dropped 27 times in the last three months. Moreover, at this rhythm the GPT4 level models – which a year ago were absolute referents – will be reduced 1,000 times in just 18 months. We are living it in price reduction. Dane Bahey, from Openai, said at a conference in September last year how the cost per million tokens had fallen from 36 dollars At just 0.25 dollars In the last 18 months. And that price drop is still clear and fantastic for users. Thus, we are facing a career that at the moment has a lot of stretch: China’s models carry the lead if we attend only to their cost, but careful, because we must also take into account the benefits. It is true that these Chinese models have already shown in the benchmarks that have been showing that they compete from you to you with the best US models, and now it remains to … Read more

It aims to go beyond what ai offers today at WhatsApp with these powerful functions

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It all started with a promise. Goal announced more than a year and a half ago that would integrate generative artificial intelligence into WhatsApp. And he did. Goal AI was deployed first in the United States, then in other markets, and finally, in March 2025, In the European Union. Today it is possible to ask you things, ask you to generate images or summarize content. Of course, some functions, such as the creation of images, are not yet available in the old continent. Telegram, on the other hand, has opted for a more direct route. Instead of developing its own technology, it has signed an agreement with XAIthe artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. The result is Grokan assistant with ambitious aspirations that already works on the social network X and now prepare a greater deployment in Telegram. Its objective is not less: integrate AI in user’s day -to -day life. Telegram supervitaminated with AI In a video shared by Pavel DurovFounder and CEO of Telegram, shows how Grok will be present constantly. It can be top of the conversations and will appear in the search engine, prepared to answer doubts or generate content directly from there. Something similar to what we find in WhatsApp. From there, the functions are raising level. Grok can generate images from the application itself, as a goal is already in other regions, but will also go further with assisted writing tools. That is, you can reformulate messages directly in the text field. For example, if we write “Great!” and the system would suggest something like “excellent teamwork. Keep it up!” It may seem lower, but introduces a customization layer that takes another step in the naturalness of the conversation. The list continues. The wizard can also generate animated stickers, summarize groups of messages, links or PDF documents. And those summaries will not only be displayed on the screen, but they can also be read aloudfacilitating content consultation while we do other tasks. In groups, Grok also aims to play a role as a moderator, although for now there are no details about its operation. What has been shown is a possible verification system in the public channels of Telegram. In the examples shared by the company, the AI ​​resorts to Fuentes such as Bloomberg to analyze and validate the published information, although it remains to be seen how, and if, this function will really be implemented. While WhatsApp keeps moving step by step, Telegram bets on a more ambitious integration. And he does it with an AI that not only responds, but begins to get involved actively in the conversation. It is expected that Grok’s deployment in Telegram will begin in Summer of 2025although for now it is not clear if all the functions will arrive at the same time, if they will be activated gradually or what will be the road map for availability in the EU. Images | Telegram/XAI In Xataka | Openai has just demonstrated that the AI ​​no longer completely obeys: O3 sabote its own shutdown to continue working

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