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Oppo is back. After a year away from global markets, the Chinese phone maker has released the Find X8 Pro – its first true globally available flagship since the Find X5 Pro in 2022 – to serve as the figurehead of its refreshed lineup.

The rest of Oppo’s mobile offering has been building up slowly over the last few months, but it now consists of a well-curated crop of past and present models, with a clear focus on value for money, loaded feature sets, and AI tools. Oppo’s famously excellent design sense is on full display, too.

However, choosing the right Oppo phone isn’t always easy. Though

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I just want to not be sick

Yo! Have a proper week! Big love!

Nice to meet you! Take your time, get accustomed and may your time spent here benefit you!

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Wrlcome back? How dare you ever log out?

Same happened to me but I finally could make an account let's go!!! I'll see if I can log in w/o google services

E: I did

I've been using deepseek a bit. Its better than trying to use google to look up answers

We still use it easiest Wikipedia debunk of all time

I think the Juche calendar has it's own sphere of use. I don't know about "abandoned" but from what I read it is still dominant, but other calendars are also used depending on the case. (From what comes to mind, history papers)

Libs are worried about it, reference: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/deepseek-crushes-openai-o1-with-an-mit-licensed-model-developers-are-losing-it/

So my experience right now with using & reading about AI and the opinions and feelings from people about the AI is that China is still a little bit behind, but catching up so insanely fast that everybody should just agree that they're already ahead of the United States and that the race is on. (Oh and they're running on last year's hardware because they're banned from getting the latest Nvidia chips, so they're actually training better AI, with weaker processors, and less data. Though they are probably leveraging ChatGPT for some data generation, which is what most people who build open models do anyway.)

Eric Schmidt was a previous CEO of Google, and still a board member. 9 Months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cnce06/eric_schmidt_says_the_us_is_23_years_ahead_of/ Last month: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5042031-artificial-intelligence-danger-eric-schmidt/

Eric is about as libed up as you can get (Co-wrote a book with Henry Kissinger...) So if he admits that China has caught up and will surpass us, it's because the evidence is OVERWHELMING. This would be the equivalent of orthodox Jews admitting that Israel is committing a genocide. If THEY are saying it, it's been true for a LOOONG time and is undeniable.

Also, they are open sourcing their models, which is freaking awesome. Anyone can use the absolute massive beast of R1 and compete with o1 directly, without even training their own models.

Also Colloquially, AI's trained in China absolute dominate the open source rankings. Qwen2.5, DeepSeek 3, DeepSeek R1, QwQ (Qwens equivalent to R1) and derivatives from these lead almost every category. LLama (Facebook) is right behind though. For small models, Phi (Microsoft) is up there (Good for running on your phone or laptop, but not the smartest).

AI moves so fast that by the time you're done reading this something will be out of date 🙃

AHA! I just saw DeepSeek and came here. Looks like other people are interested as well. It's funny to see how they spit out different responses to a question like "why did october 7 happen". You can kinda guess what ChatGPT would say lmao.