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ABC News
5 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Paraglider survives accidental 8,000m-high flight
A Chinese paraglider has survived being accidentally propelled 8,500m into the sky above north-west China, state media report.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space
China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first batch of the satellites it's comprised of was just sent up. As the South China Morning Post reports, the so-called "Three-Body Computing Constellation" project launched the first 12 of its planned 2,800 satellites last week from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The orbital supercomputer network will, when complete, allow for rapid in-orbit data processing rather than relying on terrestrial computing facilities to relay information to Earth and then back up to space. It also doesn't require the copious amounts of water ground-based computers need to stay cool. Each satellite, the SCMP notes, carries an eight-billion-parameter AI model that can process raw data in orbit. Paired with the satellites' massive computing power of one quintillion operations per second, the constellation is expected, when complete, to rival the world's most powerful terrestrial supercomputers. Launched from northwest China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, each satellite carries, per a statement from the ADA Space startup that helped launch the constellation, unique scientific payloads that can do everything from detect gamma ray bursts to create "digital twins" of Earth terrain for emergency services and other industries. While the concept of orbital computing is nothing new, this project is, as Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell told SCMP, "the first substantial flight test" of the gambit. As McDowell pointed out, theoretical space cloud computing projects are "very fashionable" right now, with private companies like Axiom Space and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin planning their own orbital computing satellites. Unlike terrestrial data centers, which, according to the International Energy Agency are on track to use as much energy as Japan by 2026, orbital data centers can "use solar power and radiate their heat to space, reducing the energy needs and carbon footprint," as McDowell told SCMP. With the launch of the first of its 2,800 satellites, China's orbital supercomputer puts the country ahead of the United States in the rival countries' space race, though there's no telling which will actually cross the finish line first. More on the space race: White House Announces It Can Now "Manipulate Time and Space"
South China Morning Post
16-05-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
Chinese team taps DeepSeek AI for military battle simulation
A research team at a university in northwest China has used DeepSeek's artificial intelligence model to generate automatic military simulation scenarios in what has been called a 'disruptive' change to how commanders make decisions in battle. The AI-based simulation system can generate 10,000 military scenarios in just 48 seconds, something that used to take a commander 48 hours to plan, according to Fu Yanfang, who led the team from Xian Technological University's school of computer science and engineering. They shared their findings on the university's website on Wednesday. She said large language models (LLMs) and combat simulation scenarios had redefined the future of war design, and a key advantage of DeepSeek's LLM was its ability to 'deconstruct and reconstruct complex battlefield situations' through training on massive data sets. LLMs are the technology behind generative AI services such as ChatGPT Military simulation scenarios mimic real combat situations, including objectives, terrain and forces involved, allowing commanders to prepare for various situations. They are meant to approximate reality in a virtual environment, but difficulty arises from the complexity of warfare and limitations of human cognition, according to Fu. 'AI now directly produces various geographic environments, force deployments, event logic and operational strategies [for simulation scenarios],' Fu said.
