It's a big world, and I personally don't know anything about the history of software in places other than the west. Could you expand on the particulars of software in China and why those claims are wrong?
I can't speak to computing history in China, but Read Only Memory has books about the Japanese [0] and British [1] video game companies. MIT has published books about computing in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and China [2]. The former two are even open access, so you can download them for free.
It's a genuine Chinese news article written by a real person. I don't know why they choose to use these types of images, it truly makes it look like slop. I think it's because it's originally a WeChat article posted on their website.
The article linked here seems to be a (bad) auto-translated version.
It's not uncommon for images to be incorporated in an article like this, as they typically get shared around WeChat and correspond better with the 'culture'.
How do we explain this little blob of sloptext right in the middle:
> The second task was more straightforward: both models were asked to search for flight tickets in a browser at the same time.
> I'm unable to open a browser or interact with live websites like Google Flights. I can only process text and don't have real-time browsing capabilities. To find this flight yourself, here's what you'd do: 1. Go to google.com/flights 2. Enter Singapore (SIN) → Beijing 3. Select one-way, set departure date to 5 days from today 4. Filter by "Nonstop" and "Economy" 5. Check the results — note that flights to Beijing may land at either Capital (PEK) or Daxing (PKX). Exclude any Daxing arrivals. 6. Compare prices and pick the cheapest nonstop option landing at PEK. If you'd like, I can help you think through typical price ranges, airline options on this route, or general tips for finding cheap flights.
> Among them, StartLux-V1.0-27B-Preview completed the search in about 95 seconds, finding an Air China ticket priced at $299.
Did you even read what it just said above? They're testing the model's capabilities so of course they'd have whatever text the model outputted in the article, that's the entire point.
