2025 New Year Message

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As fireworks brilliantly pierce the deep night, the bells of the New Year echo softly in our ears. The words “Happy New Year” travel back and forth through the flood of messages in our apps. Yes, every one of us is looking forward to a new beginning.

Over the past year, the world changed far beyond what we imagined.

At the end of the previous year, OpenAI’s large language models set off a storm in artificial intelligence, like a butterfly effect.

Driving for you on the road, typing for you on a screen, bringing loved ones back to life in hospitals where life and death meet, and playing your lover in the depths of your emotions.

This year, AI became more powerful and entered every industry at unprecedented speed. This year, it also brought more risks, extending from human safety and ethics into every aspect of society.

The Beijing Declaration signed in July was like a ray of hope, bringing a rare glimmer of possibility to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In Palestinians’ eyes, the longing for peace burned like a flame, as if it could pierce every shadow and obstacle.

The 2024 U.S. election came to an end. Trump, already in his seventies, returned to the White House with his team. The once-familiar scene appeared before him again, as though time had intertwined and turned back on itself.

As Musk’s strongest supporter, someone asked him, “Are you going to get involved in politics?” “If I can, I hope this is the last time I get involved in politics. You know, my dream is to build rockets,” he replied.

August’s Black Myth: Wukong was like a brilliant pearl, allowing Chinese culture to shine on the world stage. Like a dazzling rainbow, it crossed borders and displayed the charm of Chinese culture in full.

On the night of October 22, China’s first mobile operating system stepped onto the world stage. “Born in China, independently controllable”—these eight short characters rang like a great bell, expressing the ideals and aspirations of countless people. In ten years, we traveled a road that took our European and American counterparts thirty years; only we truly know the hardship and glory within it.

Looking back on the past year, we lived amid uncertainty. Yet without realizing it, perhaps we were standing at the beginning of history.

Perhaps, just as with the butterfly effect, the future is blurred. It is not a predetermined ending; everyone can help shape it.

Sunshine will eventually spread over the land in 2025. I hope everything goes smoothly for you and me in the coming year.

With that, I wish you a Happy New Year!