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Can the ocean solve AI's biggest cooling challenge?
China is now operating submerged data centers that use the East China Sea for cooling, achieving remarkable efficiency to power its rapidly expanding AI.
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Webvan's billion-dollar automated delivery dream failed in 2001. China's dark stores reveal the critical strategic shifts that made it finally work.
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Humanoid robots can dance, but can they work a factory floor?
Unitree's upcoming IPO is poised to expose a critical gap: despite viral videos, most humanoid robots aren't yet making it to factory floors.
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China's new robot factories are making failure the product.
Inside AgiBot's Shanghai facility, robots fail repeatedly at tasks like folding towels. These logged failures are the crucial data points for training the next generation of embodied AI.
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Beijing's trillion-dollar trade secret: It's all about the 'little giants'.
China's 'little giants' program isn't just a label. It's a two-tiered system that has trained thousands of specialized firms to dominate global markets, fueling a massive trade surplus.
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The next big AI chip bottleneck isn't what you think—and China knows it.
It's not raw silicon that's bottlenecking AI chip delivery, but advanced packaging. China has quietly reoriented its semiconductor strategy to dominate this crucial manufacturing strength.
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Why dismissing China's 'legacy' chips is a massive mistake.
Western nations call them legacy, but China is rapidly building fabs to produce the mature semiconductors essential for electric vehicles and countless other devices, set to control global supply.
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Can the ocean solve AI's biggest cooling challenge?
China is now operating submerged data centers that use the East China Sea for cooling, achieving remarkable efficiency to power its rapidly expanding AI.