Daily TEA: AI Adoption Surges in 2025?

AI, China, Navigation, RWA, Data

Jul 17, 2025

Hello, dear TEA-mates, this is what you missed today.

1. 🤖 Developers Outline Three AI Coding Postures with Claude

Developers utilizing Anthropic’s Claude for coding have identified three key approaches: AI as First-Drafter for generating initial code with human oversight, ideal for boilerplate tasks; AI as Pair-Programmer for collaborative idea refinement, suited for most development phases; and AI as Validator for code review and bug detection, acting as a tireless reviewer. These postures, detailed in a LessWrong report, cater to different stages of the development cycle. Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: The most important thing is to start, start small, start carefully, but start. The developers who master this workflow are not necessarily smarter or more talented—they are just the ones who started earlier and learned from more mistakes.

2. 📊 AI Adoption Survey Reveals Key Trends for 2025

The Artificial Analysis AI Adoption Survey Report for H1 2025, based on over 1,000 responses from 90+ countries, highlights six trends: 45% of organizations use AI in production with 50% prototyping, 66% prioritize Engineering & R&D, Google Gemini (80%), DeepSeek (53%), and xAI Grok (31%) gain share while Meta and Mistral lose ground, the average number of LLMs used rises to 4.7 from 2.8, 32% favor building AI solutions while 27% buy and 25% hybridize, and 55% are open to Chinese LLMs if hosted outside China. Conducted between April and June 2025, the survey underscores a maturing AI landscape. Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: “55% would be willing to use LLMs from China-based AI labs, if hosted outside of China” still scary. The thing is the world has no idea how influential CCP is. Singapore is pretty much the second CCP-China. If whether the LLM is hosted in China or not becomes the criterion of whether to use it or not, then what you will see is all the CCP-China companies starting to wash off China name by hiding behind all the other companies outside of China. This is just obvious.

3. ✈️ Quantum Sensing Offers GPS Alternative for Aviation

The Wall Street Journal reports that Airbus’s Acubed and SandboxAQ have tested MagNav, a quantum-sensing device using the Earth’s magnetic field, as a potential GPS alternative during 150+ hours of flights across the U.S. The toaster-sized device, leveraging AI and quantum physics, proved capable of pinpointing locations within 2 nautical miles 100% of the time and 550 meters 64% of the time, targeting defense applications first amid rising GPS jamming and spoofing threats. Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: The technology, which may first target defense applications before commercial aviation, also has potential uses in healthcare and defense, such as detecting submarines or diagnosing medical conditions. The quantum-sensing market is projected to grow significantly, with real-world applications emerging now.

4. 💸 Solana’s RWA Growth Challenges Ethereum’s Lead

CoinMarketCap reports that Solana’s tokenized real-world assets (RWA) reached $418 million in 2025, a 140.6% year-to-date increase, outpacing the broader RWA market’s 62.4% growth. Holding 3.9% of the market share, Solana ranks fourth behind Ethereum (58.4%), ZKsync Era (17.2%), and Aptos (4%), with $277 million from Ondo and ONe protocols, driven by high throughput and low costs for tokenized stocks and treasuries. Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: Hmm, RWA is absolutely the future. The question, with the centralized structure of Solana, will it conquer the RWA for institutional adoption?

5. 🇨🇳 China Advances in AI with State-Backed Open-Source Models

The New York Times reveals that Chinese companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba have developed top-performing open-source AI systems, closing the gap with the U.S. thanks to a decade of government investment, including $100 billion for semiconductors and $8.5 billion for AI start-ups. Beijing’s support for data centers, labs, and talent in cities like Hangzhou has fueled this growth, despite inefficiencies and U.S. chip restrictions, with Huawei and SMIC racing to rival Nvidia. Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: Chinese companies are competing aggressively, offering low-cost AI models and leveraging vast domestic data resources. Steal, and sell it cheap—has always been CCP’s playbook.

Prompt Tip of the Day: Think Really Hard

UX/product design ideation- this actually improves results

Really think. Really, really think. I want you to come up with something that feels like Jony Ive designed it while on acid.

TEAHEE Moment

Stay sharp, stay informed. See you tomorrow.

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