Concurrent
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Mandate of AI
The drive from a batch of AI labs in Haidian district to the robotics company in Yizhuang takes the better part of an hour. We are running half the length of the Fifth Ring, which is ninety-eight kilometers, top to bottom, through a city my...
The Center and The Periphery
When I encountered the word “jailbreaking” again in 2023, it took me a moment to realize it no longer meant what I remembered. For teenagers coming of age today, it has nothing to do with Apple’s iOS—it refers to circumventing the safety ar...
China OS vs. America OS (2026 version)
Who are the real power brokers of China’s AI, the equivalent of Sequoia and a16z in Silicon Valley? My friend Lei Du’s answer: the municipal governments of Shanghai, Beijing, and Hangzhou. Diligent, brain-fried officials running on pure FOM...
First, Dig the Latrines
An online intellectual community loved a sprawling work of fiction. The fiction recruits believers. The believers reimagine technology, politics, institutions through rational, science-based, first-principles thinking. You’re thinking of Le...
An AI-Maxi New Year
It’s Chinese New Year, and my timeline is dominated by two names: Jia Zhangke and Unitree.
Jia Zhangke, the 55-year-old director whose melancholic, unhurried gaze at ordinary Chinese life has long mesmerized Western cinephiles—turns out to...
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