（24-25高二下·江苏宿迁·期中）Just hours after the launch on March 6th 1 of Manus, a Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) bot, a flood of visitors caused its registration site to crash. Butterfly Effect, the company behind the bot, claims its technology outperforms that of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. It is now granting previews by invitation only as it struggles to handle the traffic (流量). Scalpers (黄牛) are said to be selling registration codes.
Manus is but the latest example of the mania that has swept over China since January, when DeepSeek, the country’s hottest AI startup, shook the world with a whizzy model that cost a fraction of similarly powerful Western ones to train. The effect on Chinese markets has been staggering. Stocks are experiencing their best start to the year on record. The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the biggest Chinese tech companies listed in Hong Kong, is up by more than 40% since mid-January.
China’s largest tech firms, including Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei and Tencent, are embracing the hype, and will be hoping to cash in on the boom through their cloud-computing divisions. Last month Alibaba proclaimed that its main objective was to achieve human-like artificial general intelligence. On March 6th it released a new reasoning model that it says is as good as DeepSeek’s.
China’s AI boom is encouraging capital investment across the country’s hardware supply chain. Server-makers may spend more than 1.4trn yuan over the next two years as they expand production capacity, according to analysts at Jefferies, an investment bank. GDS, one of the largest, has scaled up its capital-expenditure plans. VNet, a competitor, recently said it would double its capacity this year.
Many people expect they will keep using Manus for all sorts of tasks, in both personal and professional lives. The launch of Manus serves as further evidence that Chinese AI companies are not following in the footsteps of their Western counterparts. Rather than just innovating on base models, they are actively shaping the adoption of autonomous AI agents in their own way.
100．What is mainly talked about in paragraph 1?
A．Manus is too popular to cope with the traffic.
B．Scalpers are causing problems for new AI products.
C．OpenAI’s ChatGPT is losing its market dominance.
D．Butterfly Effect is a company that cannot handle its own technology.
101．What does the underlined word “staggering” in paragraph 2 mean?
A．Amazing. B．Challenging. C．Demanding. D．Embarrassing.
102．Why might GDS and VNet be increasing their operations?
A．To diversify their product lines. B．To collaborate with foreign companies.
C．To take advantage of the booming AI market. D．To respond to a decrease in consumer demand.
103．What are people’s attitudes toward new applications?
A．Supportive. B．Indifferent. C．Worried. D．Doubtful.
【答案】100．A 101．A 102．C 103．A
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