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China on Friday launched its first large artificial intelligence (AI) model dedicated to monitoring and protecting arable land, and it will serve as a new digital tool for the national strategy of storing grain in the land and in technology.

Released by the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) on World Soil Day, the model aims to upgrade China’s farmland management from quantity-focused preservation to quality improvement — a task that traditional manual monitoring can no longer handle efficiently.

Developed by a team led by Tang Huajun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the system integrates a central foundation model with dedicated “vertical models” designed for specific tasks such as field segmentation, crop classification and engineering quality inspection.

Wu Wenbin, director general of the CAAS Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, said that the AI model goes beyond passive observation. It can diagnose soil health, predict trends and autonomously generate management plans, offering full-life-cycle management for high-standard farmland.

Nationwide, there are more than 66.7 million hectares of high-standard farmland, where soil fertility has been well-preserved with technological advancements and scientific farm management.

In a pilot program in Kunshan, east China’s Jiangsu Province, the model successfully created a closed-loop system by adjusting fertilization dynamically based on weather and crop growth cycles.

Industry experts have said the launch provides a technical driver for the sustainable management of agricultural resources, the improvement of arable land quality and the development of high-quality farmland in China.

While the U.S. retains an edge on AI chips, he warned China can build large projects at staggering speeds.

“If you want to build a data center here in the United States from breaking ground to standing up a AI supercomputer is probably about three years,” Huang told Center for Strategic and International Studies President John Hamre in late November. “They can build a hospital in a weekend.”

The speed at which China can build infrastructure is just one of his concerns. He also worries about the countries’ comparative energy capacity to support the AI boom.

China has “twice as much energy as we have as a nation, and our economy is larger than theirs. Makes no sense to me,” Huang said.

He added that China’s energy capacity continues to grow “straight up”, while the U.S.’s remains relatively flat.

Still, Huang maintained that Nvidia is “generations ahead” of China on AI chip technology to support the demand for the tech and semiconductor manufacturing process.

But he warned against complacency on this front, adding that “anybody who thinks China can’t manufacture is missing a big idea.”

Yet Huang is hopeful about Nvidia’s future, noting President Donald Trump’s push to reshore manufacturing jobs and spur AI investments.

‘Insatiable AI demand’

Early last month, Huang made headlines by predicting China would win the AI race—a message he amended soon thereafter, saying the country was “nanoseconds behind America” in the race in a statement shared to his company’s X account.

Nvidia is just one of the big tech companies pouring billions of dollars into a data center buildout in the U.S., which experts tell Fortune could amount to over $100 billion in the next year alone.

Raul Martynek, the CEO of DataBank, a company that contracts with tech giants to construct data centers, said the average cost of a data center is $10 million to $15 million per megawatt (MW), and a typical data centers on the smaller side requires 40 MW.

“In the U.S., we think there will be 5 to 7 gigawatts brought online in the coming year to support this seemingly insatiable AI demand,” Martynek said.

This shakes out to $50 billion on the low end, and $105 billion on the high end.

F&G Annuities & Life (FG) has quietly pushed about 13% higher over the past month, even though shares remain down sharply this year, a setup that often attracts value-focused investors.

See our latest analysis for F&G Annuities & Life.

That recent 1 month share price return of about 13% looks more like a relief rally than a full trend change, given the share price is still down sharply year to date. At the same time, the 3 year total shareholder return remains strongly positive, which hints that investors are cautiously revisiting the longer term growth story after a rough stretch.

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With shares still down heavily over the past year, yet trading only slightly below analyst targets but at a sizeable intrinsic discount, is F&G quietly undervalued, or is the market already pricing in its next phase of growth?

On a price-to-earnings basis, F&G Annuities & Life trades at 10.2x, slightly below peers and the broader US Insurance industry, suggesting a modest valuation discount at the current 33.72 share price.

The price-to-earnings multiple compares the company’s market value to its earnings and is a common way to gauge what investors are willing to pay for each dollar of profit in financial and insurance businesses.

Given FG’s P E of 10.2x versus a 10.6x peer average and 12.8x for the broader US Insurance group, the market appears to be pricing its profitability somewhat conservatively, even as the business has moved into sustained profitability with higher net margins and what are assessed as high quality earnings.

Compared with the industry’s 12.8x, FG’s lower P E signals that investors are not assigning a premium multiple to its earnings, which could be seen as a valuation gap.

See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown.

Result: Price-to-Earnings of 10.2x (UNDERVALUED)

However, risks remain, including potential earnings volatility from complex annuity products and any downturn in demand as higher rates reshape retirement planning behavior.

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Our DCF model points to a fair value of about 42.73 per share, implying FG trades roughly 21% below intrinsic value. That is a deeper discount than the modest P E gap. This raises the question: is the market too skeptical about its future cash flows?

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