The slowdown economy meets a quick future

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The fact is that the Chinese Honor smartphone company told CNBC that the latest difficult to release on Wednesday will become the most subtle phone on the market today by only 8.8 millimeters if stacked – Pruning even rumors thick for Samsung The upcoming complex – largely due to its AI production tools.

Honor said she found the optimal combination of slenderness and strength, using it “1-billion AI industrial models” to mimic more than 125,000 device assembly options. The company stated that 3D-scan AI allowed it to reach accurate control of 0.003 millimeters or about 1/20 human hair.

In general, it is a 1.1-mm cut from the first complex, launched in July 2023, when the honor made waves on the smartphone market with the device that Folded to be almost as thin as the iPhone.

But it was also two summer ago when I remember that most of the economic excitement after a piece in China faded.

The conversations moved from the celebration of the end of the lock to the unfortunate consumption. Pessimism also created a problem in the domestic market for complex Honor materials, which usually starts with an equivalent of over $ 1,000 in each.

Looking back, honor is not the only major Chinese company that has succeeded in the last two years. Chinese company smartphones Xiaomi is launched two electric cars Directly compete with Tesla. Deepseek was officially registered by the company in July 2023, according to the records before launching its AI breakthrough in January this year.

The prevalence of AI also began to penetrate into the “less vivid” parts of China’s economy.

In July 2023Huawei launched a specialized AI model for commercial mining with the Yunding Technology mining company and the state -owned company Shandong Energy Group. A model based on her The fundamental model of “icon”The workers were allowed to operate mining equipment remotely from the office and faster to develop other technological solutions.

Fast forward before 2025, and AI Tech was Integrated in more than 100 minAccording to the annual Huawei report published in March. In May launched a company client in Inner Mongolia 100 electrical trucks that control self -government for a local coal mine.

Last month, Huawei opened a new, 5.5 version of the Pangu Fund, and Monday released an An Open source version for developers.

Foreign companies also cause technological innovations on the mainland, such as the German industrial giant Siemens.

Of the 18-related II integration, Siemens has just been launched, 16 were developed in China in just nine months. He described applications such as AI that work on energy systems for buildings.

These technological breakthroughs are the result of years or months of painstaking development, but only recently enterprises reap.

“AI is transformed from isolated technological innovation into what is main or built throughout the business process,” Janet Tan, a partner founded in Hong Kong and head of AlixPartners, told me last week on the sidelines of the Tianjin conference.

She stated that significant integration of II of business -operating began approximately 12 months ago after extensive attempts and errors over the past few years.

The starting glasses of the supplemented reality Xreal put in their own factory in the southeastern city “Level 2”, and earlier this year announced New Glass Product Works on XR Google The operating system.

The company also moves the Beijing Church headquarters this summer to be closer to its specialized factories in Wuxi, which make optical parts and other components, last week, CEO and founder of Ch Sir told me in the side of the World Economic Forum.

This is hoped that its products can reach consumers by the end of this year, noting that the US remains the main market Xreal.

“I am always impressed by the energy, hard -working and openness of businesses here in China,” said Tan AlixPartners. Despite the protectionism or other problems, “all are still so motivated, so try to learn new things and contact the rest of the world.”

A CSI 300 The index that monitors 300 shares traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 3943.68, while Hong Kong Hang the Index – The included large Chinese companies – they received 0.62%. To date, the mainland is 0.22%, the LSEG data has shown.

– Lee In Shan