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Launching new cars and entering the automotive industry. observed
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Then you have the Xiaomi's of the world doing this week-long open RL run. They're like, here's what we did. And then they've dropped the model. And it's like, where exactly does distillation go into this? They're clever. They know how to do marketing well. There are some questions of like, did they do this ahead of time because they did their RL run and then they dropped the model and then their tech report said they had an extra post-training stage after RL. So there's some questions.
Many are Xiaomi and BYD already are.
he decided that he hadn't been driving a car for 10 years because he had had a driver. So he immediately switched seats with his driver. And then he, um, he went through the parking lot at his company. And if there was ever a car he had not driven, he'd leave a note on it and ask to borrow it. And then he would have the, uh, the owner of the car, tell him what they liked and didn't like. So he claimed he drove 170 cars that way. Um, and then he also liked BYD. They hired a European designer, um,
the CEO of Ford Farley, he went over there and I think had the exact same tour I did. And he insisted they ship him one back to Chicago and he's been driving it around and he's made some pretty extreme statements. Um, after having experienced John me, this car sells for about 40 K. Um, but he said, it's the most humbling thing I've ever seen. And he says, even beyond that, their cost, their quality of vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West. We are in a global competition with China a
Xiaomi is a super interesting story if people don't know. So I, I w I was fortunate enough to meet Lee June back in 0304. Um, but about 13, 10 to 13 years ago, he started a phone company and that's what Xiaomi is. And that company is now third, I think around the globe in handsets sold heavy in Europe, heavy in South America, not just China. Um, and three to four years ago, I think around 2021, he decided to build a car... they're making, uh, a thousand of these a day. They just came out with a
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common_name | Xiaomi | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-01 | normalized | 0.60 |
description | Launching new cars and entering the automotive industry. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-01 | normalized | 0.60 |
platform.index_excluded | true | derived | calc | 2026-10-09 | normalized | 0.99 |
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signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4GHYXHNRGKWQ0NV81QP5DRB", "signals": [{"quote": "the CEO of Ford Farley, he went over there and I think had the exact same tour I did. And he insisted they ship him on | observed | artifact ↗ | 2025-08-28 | promoted | 0.50 |
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