Tag: China
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My favorite breakfast spot in Tokyo is Jonathan’s. This chain serves some of the best eggs and pancakes around — with almost no human workers. I’ve been coming to Japan and Jonathan’s since 2014. In the past, it operated like other restaurants, with service entirely by humans. I arrived in…
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Moonshot just dropped a new, more powerful Kimi: K2.6. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best open source model I’ve used yet. Moonshot claims that Kimi outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on some benchmarks. Better yet, Kimi is dirt cheap to run, making it a popular choice…
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MiniMax, a $40 billion Chinese AI startup, just dropped its most powerful model yet. M2.7 claims to be one of the best models in the world, but it flopped in my testing… Round #1: How Bad Is the Damage from the Iran War? This morning on Bloomberg, I heard that…
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Chinese startup MiniMax just dropped M2.5, its most powerful model yet. But M2.5 flopped in my testing, scoring a C+. That’s only slightly better than MiniMax’s prior model, which I gave a C last month. Let me show you where this model works and where it fails… Round #1: Automating…
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With tariffs and growing authoritarianism, Apple has every reason to leave China. So why doesn’t it? China has several critical advantages. In Apple in China, Patrick McGee shows us why Apple isn’t leaving any time soon. “There’s no way that they could diversify from China in any meaningful way within…
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Moonshot AI recently dropped Kimi K2.5, its most powerful model ever. But in my testing, K2.5 failed miserably. When I reviewed Kimi K2 in November, it was a real threat to ChatGPT and Grok. But K2.5 feels like a major downgrade. Across a range of queries, K2.5 delivered useless results.…
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Chinese AI startup MiniMax is going public this week at a $7 billion valuation. But its model flopped in my testing. I ran MiniMax through three tests with real world questions. These are harder to game than benchmarks. Let me show you where MiniMax does well and where it struggles……
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China is about to launch its first AI model IPO, Zhipu AI. Investors may be excited, but Zhipu’s product is weak. China’s first IPO of an LLM startup, Zhipu AI, will start trading Thursday. The IPO is expected to value Zhipu at nearly USD $7 billion. This morning, I ran…
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Germany’s car industry has lost 51,000 jobs in the last year. VW cut 35,000, ThyssenKrupp 11,000, and Bosch nearly 6,000. What’s causing the collapse in German industry? Crushed By Energy Prices German manufacturers are cutting capacity because building things in Germany has become too expensive. One of the biggest culprits…
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Kimi just dropped Kimi 2 Thinking. I tested it this morning. It’s as good as Grok 4, the best model I’ve ever used. In July, I ran the prior Kimi through testing. It scored a B+, solid but below Grok 4. This time, Kimi performed far better. Let me show…
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Tremendous 