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The Engineer Who Wrote DeepSeek's Attention Kernel Says AI Will Beat Him Within a Year
On September 14, a DeepSeek machine learning systems engineer named Liu Shengyu (刘胜与) published an essay on his personal WeChat account titled "I Have No Choice but to Bury My Talent in Yesterday" (《我不得不把才华埋葬在昨天》). Four days earlier, DeepSe...
The War Between Chinese Cities
On the last day of 2022, the city of Xi'an (西安) , the home of renown terracotta warriors that attract over 300 million tourists annually announced that it had produced 1.0155 million new energy vehicles that year, the most of any city in Ch...
China’s Firepower Insecurity: How Trauma From War Shaped Modern Corporate Strategy
In Chinese military fan circles there is a diagnosis with no known cure: huoli buzu kongjuzheng (火力不足恐惧症), "firepower insufficiency syndrome." The lore traces it to the Korean War, where Chinese forces, outgunned by American artillery and u...
Why Competitive Intensity, Not Ideology, May Be The Better Starting Point For Explaining China's Economic Rise.
On July 5, 2025, Meituan (美团) announced that its instant-retail platforms had processed 120 million orders in a single day, according to Yicai. It was a shot in a war that had started in February, when JD.com (京东), a company built on electr...
What If DeepSeek Never Wanted The Inference Market To Begin With?
15/8/2026 - XuanYe
DeepSeek’s August to-be price increase creates an apparent contradiction. For much of 2026, the company used unusually cheap first-party inference to establish a cost benchmark that left little room for undifferentiated...
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