**Revolution of Technology 2025: From Efficient AI to Unlimited Fusion Energy**

The year 2025 will be remembered as a year of major transformation in the global scientific landscape. Not only has China demonstrated its dominance across various technological fields, but the world has also witnessed breakthroughs that change how we view the future. From open-source language models that revolutionize AI to fusion energy achievements that are nearly a reality, high-level scientific innovations have reached unprecedented momentum.

**AI Competition: Efficiency Overcomes Raw Power**

While the AI industry is busy racing with the most advanced hardware, DeepSeek comes with a different philosophy. The open-source large model DeepSeek-R1 launched in January proves that scientific success does not always depend solely on hardware sophistication. Through intelligent algorithm optimization and technical innovation, this model achieves world-class performance despite limited computational power. This is not just a technical achievement—it's a paradigm shift empowering developers worldwide to build their own models without relying on colossal processing power.

Meanwhile, internationally, AI technology continues to advance. The combination of AI-based tools with brain decoders has reached an astonishing milestone—able to translate thoughts directly into continuous text without requiring speech or spoken language processing. This scientific breakthrough opens new doors in neurotechnology and human communication.

**Fusion Energy: A Major Step Toward a Sustainable Future**

On January 20, China’s EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) set a world record: maintaining stable plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1.066 seconds—almost 18 minutes. This achievement is not just impressive numbers; it’s concrete evidence that fusion energy, long desired, is now closer to becoming a reality. By overcoming one of the most challenging issues in plasma reduction, this research takes the world a step further toward unlimited clean energy.

**Quantum Computing: Surpassing Classical Limits**

China’s Zuchongzhi 3.0 quantum computer with 105 readable qubits and 182 entanglements has broken another global record. This system can solve problems involving sampling random quantum circuits 10 trillion times faster than modern supercomputers. Internationally, Google has introduced the Quantum Echoes algorithm, demonstrating verifiable quantum supremacy over classical computers, marking a new era in quantum computing.

**Materials and Computing: Atomic-Level Innovation**

Extraordinary scientific achievements also occur in materials science. Chinese scientists successfully created large-scale two-dimensional metallic materials—something never achieved before. These atom-thin metals, far thinner than human hair, open new possibilities in material research and technological innovation, recognized globally through publications in Nature.

Meanwhile, high-precision analog matrix computing chips developed at Peking University outperform modern GPUs in energy efficiency and processing power by up to 1,000 times. Similarly, international photonic computing chips surpass traditional electronic hardware—Singapore’s system achieves over two decades of improvements in latency and computational speed.

**Brain-Computer Interfaces: Direct Connection with Machines**

In neurotechnology, China reaches a historic milestone. The country’s first invasive brain-computer interface clinical trial, conducted in June through collaboration between the Brain Research Center and Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, enables subjects to perform tasks like typing and gaming after just a few weeks of training. With this achievement, China becomes the second country in the world after the United States to reach the clinical trial phase for invasive brain-machine interfaces.

**Space Exploration and Scientific Discoveries**

The Chang’e-6 mission delivers new insights into the Moon. Analysis of lunar samples reveals detailed history of distant lunar regions, including volcanic activity, ancient magnetic fields, and mantle composition. These discoveries provide groundbreaking insights that significantly advance our understanding of our nearest celestial body.

At the observatory, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory supported by NSF-DOE released its first images, capturing millions of distant stars and galaxies at an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile, the verification of Stephen Hawking’s Theorem of the Extended Universe—proposed in 1971—was successfully performed with extremely high precision through gravitational waves GW250114, validating one of the most elegant predictions of quantum physics and relativity.

**Biotechnology and Surgery: Humans and Machines United**

In biotechnology, a team from Shandong Agricultural University solved a century-old scientific mystery by discovering how a single plant cell develops into a complete plant. This discovery explains the mechanism of plant cell totipotency and opens new possibilities for genetic improvement and agricultural biotechnology.

In medicine, intelligent surgical robots have successfully removed gallbladders without human intervention. Meanwhile, scientists have designed enzymes from scratch using RFdiffusion and a machine learning network called PLACER, marking a new era in biological engineering.

**Maritime Infrastructure: Next-Generation Military Vessel Technology**

On November 5, China’s advanced aircraft carrier Fujian was officially commissioned with a flag-raising ceremony in Sanya, Hainan. This self-designed, developed, and manufactured carrier is the first in the world to use advanced electromagnetic catapults to launch aircraft. The technology applied on Fujian is largely used practically for the first time, demonstrating high-level scientific achievement in modern maritime engineering.

**Conclusion: A Year of Global Scientific Transformation**

The year 2025 has proven that high-level scientific innovation is no longer a distant dream. From more efficient AI to nearly realized fusion energy, from quantum computing surpassing classical capabilities to materials that redefine physical limits, these achievements show that a brighter future is being built today. The world of science and technology is undergoing a fundamental transformation that will shape the coming decades.