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South China Morning Post
04-07-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Human heart structure beats 21 days in pig embryo, Chinese chimera research team says
Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting that the heart continued to beat for 21 days unaided. Advertisement The study, led by Lai Liangxue's team from the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was announced at the International Society for Stem Cell Research's annual meeting in Hong Kong on June 12. Previously, the team had cultivated human kidneys in pigs for up to 28 days. According to a report in Nature on June 13, the team reprogrammed human stem cells by introducing genes to prevent cell death and improve their survival in pigs. 06:23 Can China claim the leadership mantle after the US quits the WHO and Paris Agreement? Can China claim the leadership mantle after the US quits the WHO and Paris Agreement? At the early blastocyst stage – early in pregnancy when a ball of cells forms – they implanted pre-modified human stem cells into pig embryos, which were then transferred to surrogate sows.
South China Morning Post
03-07-2025
- Automotive
- South China Morning Post
Xpeng launches G7 ‘Super AI' SUV, taking on Xiaomi YU7 and Tesla Model Y
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng launched its G7 SUV on Thursday, sending another contender into a fierce battle in the premium SUV segment of the world's largest EV market, where it joins Xiaomi's recently introduced YU7 in taking on Tesla's market-leading Model Y. Dubbed Xpeng's first 'Super AI [artificial intelligence] car', the G7 starts at 195,800 yuan (US$27,325), with the top-of-the-line model selling for 225,800 yuan, the Guangzhou-headquartered company said during a launch event in Beijing on Thursday. The car is Xpeng's first model to feature its in-house Turing AI chip . With three such chips, the EV was able to run an AI large language model with more than 30 billion parameters, the company said. This made the EV the world's first mass-produced car with Level 3 (L3) self-driving capabilities, said He Xiaopeng, Xpeng's founder and CEO, at the launch event. 'The G7 is an epoch-making product from Xpeng and also our first new car in 2025,' said He. 'Starting today, in Xpeng's intelligent driving system, there will not only be L2, but we will also bring L3 intelligent-driving computing power to consumers.' Xpeng unveiled the G7 on June 11 and started presales at 235,800 yuan, placing the car between the company's G6 and flagship G9 SUVs. The model garnered more than 10,000 pre-orders in 46 minutes, He said in a post on Chinese social-media platform Sina Weibo last month. L3 is considered a 'hands-off' system, but still requires drivers to be responsible for safety and ready to take over, while L4 would allow drivers to take their eyes off the road in designated areas, according to standards set by US-based SAE International.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Chinese scientists claim AI is capable of spontaneous human-like understanding
Chinese researchers claim to have found evidence that large language models (LLMs) can comprehend and process natural objects like human beings. This, they suggest, is done spontaneously even without being explicitly trained to do so. According to the researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, some AIs (like ChatGPT or Gemini) can mirror a key part of human cognition, which is sorting information. Their study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, investigated whether LLM models can develop cognitive processes similar to those of human object representation. Or, in other words, to find out if LLMs can recognize and categorize things based on function, emotion, environment, etc. To discover if this is the case, the researchers gave AIs 'odd-one-out' tasks using either text (for ChatGPT-3.5) or images (for Gemini Pro Vision). To this end, they collected 4.7 million responses across 1,854 natural objects (like dogs, chairs, apples, and cars). They found that of the models created, sixty-six conceptual dimensions were created to organize objects, just the way humans would. These dimensions extended beyond basic categories (such as 'food') to encompass complex attributes, including texture, emotional relevance, and suitability for children. The scientists also found that multimodal models (combining text and image) aligned even more closely with human thinking, as AIs process both visual and semantic features simultaneously. Furthermore, the team discovered that brain scan data (neuroimaging) revealed an overlap between how AI and the human brain respond to objects. The findings are interesting and provide, it appears, evidence that AI systems might be capable of genuinely 'understanding' in a human-like way, rather than just mimicking responses. It also suggests that future AIs could have more intuitive, human-compatible reasoning, which is essential for robotics, education, and human-AI collaboration. However, it is also important to note that LLMs don't understand objects the way humans do emotionally or experientially. AIs work by recognizing patterns in language or images that often correspond closely to human concepts. While that may appear to be 'understanding' on the surface, it's not based on lived experience or grounded sensory-motor interaction. Also, some parts of AI representations may correlate with brain activity, but this doesn't mean they can 'think' like humans or share the same architecture. If anything, they can be thought of as more of a sophisticated facsimile of human pattern recognition rather than a thinking machine. LLMs are more like a mirror made from millions of books and pictures, reflecting those models at the user based on learned patterns. The study's findings suggest that LLMs and humans might be converging on similar functional patterns, such as organizing the world into categories. This challenges the view that AIs can only 'appear' smart by repeating patterns in data. But, if, as the study argues, LLMS are starting to build conceptual models of the world independently, it would mean that we could be edging closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a system that can think and reason across many tasks like a human. You can access the study in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Malay Mail
15-05-2025
- Automotive
- Malay Mail
Automakers focus on R&D and design investment as China's electric vehicle exports increase
GUANGZHOU, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 May 2025 - The market size of new energy vehicles in China is expanding, and automakers are constantly carrying out innovative the first four months of 2025, China's automobile production and sales both surpassed 10 million units for the first time, according to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).A report from the Passenger Car Market Joint Branch of the China Automobile Dealers Association pointed out that in April, China's export volume of new energy passenger vehicles reached 189,000 units, increasing by 44.2 percent year-on-year and 31.6 percent month-on-month, accounting for 44.6 percent of the total passenger vehicle exports, up by 14 percentage points compared with the same period last this trend, Chinese automakers, such as GAC Group, have increased their investment in research and development, especially by constantly innovating in the field of design to meet the needs of young Ping-chun, an exterior designer of GAC, introduced that in the current electric vehicle industry chain, automotive designers play the role of "magicians," aiming to turn an attractive pattern into a product. Besides retaining creativity, it also needs to comply with the norms of the automotive Ping-chun introduced that the vehicle appearance he made at that time was the first new energy vehicle with gull-wing doors among the self-owned brands of Chinese automakers. Due to its fashionable body lines, it received a lot of Ping-chun was born in Taiwan and later went to work in Guangdong Province. He said that while living on the Chinese mainland, he found that the most common vehicles he saw on the roads were new energy vehicles. In terms of autonomous driving, some Chinese automakers represented by GAC have already taken the leading position internationally, said #ChinaNewsService The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
