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Zhipu and MiniMax IPO
A week in prospectus-land
 • Irene Zhang
Richard Danzig on AI and Cyber
"The DOD doesn't need a wake-up call about AI... What they need to do is to get out of bed."
 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber
How the White House learned to fear compute
 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
The All-Star Chinese AI Conversation of 2026
Zhipu, Moonshot, Qwen, and Tencent founders and top researchers talk US-China, open vs closed, business models, and where AI is headed in 2026
 • Irene Zhang, Jordan Schneider, Nick Corvino, Lily Ottinger, and Aqib Zakaria
Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped
A year for the history books for the Chinese AI beat.
 • Irene Zhang
Helen Toner Takes the Reins at CSET
Helen Toner, the new interim Executive Director of CSET who substacks at Rising Tide, makes her ChinaTalk debut.
 • Jordan Schneider and Eleanor Randolph
The Z.ai Playbook
Zixuan Li on the Chinese AI ecosystem
 • Jordan Schneider, Irene Zhang, and Lily Ottinger
The Myth of China's "AI Talent Pipeline"
Life inside the "human sea attack"
 • Zilan Qian
The WeChat AI Field Guide
a community-generated guide in progress + write for ChinaTalk!
 • Irene Zhang
Inside China’s Giant AGI Wiki
Where there's everything but AGI
 • Zilan Qian
Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition
Tarun Chhabra is the head of national security policy at Anthropic and previously served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for…
 • Jordan Schneider and Eleanor Randolph
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Catch Nvidia
Quantifying China's Compute Shortfall
 • Jordan Schneider and Eleanor Randolph
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