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• Under the Camera’s Gaze, I Changed from a University Lecturer into a “Performer”
• The Tech High Ground
• DeepSeek: Blueprint, Not Breach
• China AI Bulletin 3
• An Independent Safety Evaluation of Kimi K2.5

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Breaking down DeepSeek's V4 release.

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• DeepSeek Overly Understated
• Don’t Overestimate Nvidia; Don’t Underestimate DeepSeek
• 50,000 lines of code

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• When AI Enters the Harness Era: MiniMax as a Case Study for the New Cloud Infrastructure of AI Agents
• 27 Years Later, Still Bombing the Wrong Targets
• Xiaoice’s [小冰] “Unicorn” Illusion (in Chinese)
• ChinAI #248
• China’s robot champion has everything to lose

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Eight things I learned about China's AI ecosystem over the past year of newsletter notes.

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• ChinAI #343

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An update to ChinAI issue #10, first published May 2018.

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• A 10,000-character deconstruction of Palantir

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Plus, what we can learn from its 2025 assessments.

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• AI Safety/Security Research Report (CAICT, Nov 2025)
• CAICT launches its first batch of AI Safety/Security Assessments of 2026
• ChinAI #261
• The Long Now of the Web - Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting
• China’s AI Governance -A Conversation with Professor Zhang Linghan
• China’s Economic Involution - State and Business Strategies
• A house of mistakes

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• ChinAI #342
• China is stirring up an OpenClaw tempest
• MiniMax hasn’t gone crazy, the market has gone crazy
• I waited 100+ days for a full-time job at a big tech firm
• Don’t get fooled by those Spring Festival Gala robots
• AI Signboards in a County Town
• A midnight earthquake for Alibaba Qwen, Junyang Lin steps down
• CAICT launches its first batch of AI Safety/Security Assessments of 2026
• The 2025 Annual Chinese Large Model Benchmark Evaluation report is out!
• ChinAI #324
• Zhihu founder Zhou Yuan proposes “AI Comic Book Infringement Speed ​​Far Exceeds Rights Protection; A Fast-Track Green Channel Should Be Established”
• Comparing financials: market remains calm on Cambricon despite profits; MetaX and Moore Threads lack large orders
• ChinAI
• Substack post
• DeepInfra
• Cerebras
• OpenRouter

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• Chinese Tokens Go Global
• 663B tokens from MiniMax
• Chinese AI models capture 61% of token use on OpenRouter (sloppy perplexity page)
• She runs AI safety at Meta. Her AI agent still went rogue
• State of AI - An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter
• Power and Advantage in the AI Era

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• 2025 China Computing Power Industry Chronicles - Frenzy, Growing Pains, and Value Reversion
• The Truth About DeepSeek All-in-One Machine Deployment
• Assetizing, Trading, Franchising: China’s Strategy for Building a National Data Economy
• Does the UAE have an Advantage in Building Data Centers?
• Inference Scaling and AI Governance
• Recreating the Smells of History

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• The People who Resist AI
• ChinAI #144
• ChinAI #335
• The development of Internet Fiction in China, from Internet sub-culture to mainstream literature
• The Temple of Earth and I (translated excerpts)
• Reputation Collectives - how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies
• ChinAI #61: A Backlash to Social Credit Blacklists?

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