China

Is Half of China’s AI Making Slop?

The 55% token myth, and China’s guilty pleasure

Oct 30 • Zilan Qian

Roasting China’s AI Industry

“AI is full of scammers, narcissists, and people whose activities are incomprehensible — and somehow they get funding.“

Oct 29 • Irene Zhang

China’s AI Safety Money Problem

Philanthropy is weak. The state is strong. Safety has to work the system to survive.

Oct 5 • Nick Corvino

Open Models are the United Front of AI

funny Sundays return!

Sep 6

“Eastern Data, Western Compute” is Fake

China promised to move its data centers west. Now it’s backtracking.

Jul 10 • Irene Zhang and Nick Corvino

How Much Compute Does China Have? A Demand-Side Analysis

Apr 8 • Nick Corvino

The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs

How Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog took down Trump

Mar 19 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

We're Are All Wall Dancers Now

Afra interviews Yi-Ling Liu about "The Wall Dancers," her new book on the Chinese internet

Feb 6 • afra wang

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