China's Week: Sunday, March 1
Quantum communication at 2,300 miles; Drone container ship; Mass-produced cancer-fighting cells; Humanoid combat league; Antisemitism up; Massive 6-inch naval gun.
Science & Technology
Above: Sodium ion batteries have little risk of fire, retain 90% charge capacity at -40º. Since 2015, CATL has invested $1.4B, 300 engineers and 20 PhD’s to work on sodium.
Converged optical/wireless communication system’s single-channel transmission of 512 Gbps over fiber and 400 Gbps over wireless, bandwidth 10x 5G standard, low energy consumption and cost scalability for large-scale deployment.
Peking University scientists expand quantum communication network range to 2,300 miles.
Unitree’s new quadruped carries 15-kg loads for 13 km.
DeepSeek Withholds V4 Model from US chipmakers, grants Huawei exclusive. China’s AI ecosystem no longer views Western hardware as essential.
ByteDance records 1.9 billion AI interactions on New Year’s Eve gala, Alibaba’s Qwen sees 5 billion commands from 130 million users.
One stem cell generates 14 million tumor-killing NK cells in major cancer breakthrough. Powerful cancer-fighting immune cells mass-produced in the lab.
China’s operating system for quantum computers, Origin Pilot, is the world’s first quantum OS available for public download..
Economics & Trade
China launches ‘world’s first’ humanoid combat league, free T800 robots.
Alipay’s “AI Pay,” which enables secure, seamless transactions through AI agents, conversational or embedded AI interfaces, has 100 million active users.
Baidu’s AI computing infrastructure subscription revenue surged 143%, while new AI businesses accounted for 43% of 4Q general revenue, up from 39%.
