News on China's scientific and technological development.
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- Research team says latest Sunway machine is on a par with the US Frontier, named as the world’s most powerful just weeks earlier
- Its speed has made it possible to train an artificial intelligence program with 174 trillion parameters, rivalling the synapses in the human brain
The Chinese research team say potential uses of the AI model running on the Newest Generation Sunway supercomputer include autonomous vehicles and facial recognition. Photo: Shutterstock
Chinese scientists say a new supercomputer is so fast it has successfully run an model as sophisticated as a human brain.
The achievement puts the Newest Generation Sunway supercomputer on a par with Frontier, the latest machine built by the US Department of Energy, which earlier this month was named the world’s most powerful.
The Chinese team used the Sunway machine to train the AI model – called bagualu which means “alchemist’s pot” – with 174 trillion parameters, rivalling the number of synapses in the brain for the first time.
Great news, although I'm not clear how the journals selected to be in the high-quality list are placed there.
The Chinese government's push to get scientists to publish more in Chinese journals may muddy this metric in future years, unless Nature agrees to add some Chinese journals to its "high-quality journals" list or unless someone else comes up with a new list of high quality journals that treats Chinese journals fairly. Thus far, Nature has been pretty objective and apolitical in its overall tone, let's hope they can keep it that way in the future.
I also wonder the level of Russia's impact on the list and the effect of sanctions on the publication behavior of Russian scientists?
What about my beloved India
A research team from University of Science and Technology of China made important breakthrough in quantum amplification.
They have found a new way to enhance quantum amplification. In this new way, they can "simultaneously enhance and measure multiple magnetic fields with at least one order of magnitude improvement".
Notably, this innovation is based on the theories and techniques developed by themselves in the past.
Paper published in English:
USTC news release in Chinese:
Note their past archievements:
News report in Chinese by Xinhua:
They have found a new way to enhance quantum amplification. In this new way, they can "simultaneously enhance and measure multiple magnetic fields with at least one order of magnitude improvement".
Notably, this innovation is based on the theories and techniques developed by themselves in the past.
Paper published in English:
USTC news release in Chinese:
成果示意图：（a）Floquet能级；（b）Flqouet量子自旋放大器原理图；（c）磁探测灵敏度。
Note their past archievements:
News report in Chinese by Xinhua:
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China will surpass the US in about 3 years. This year, China surpassed US in the physical sciences:
It is already dominant in chemistry, but has some work to do to dominate the life and environmental sciences.