ChinAI Newsletter

Featured links ChinAI #358 Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30 Release of AI Safety Benchmark Results for Agents (Claw-class) – Q2 2026 Edition The First Shot in Domestic Compute for Training: Meituan’s LongCat-2.0 Officially Released American AI can no longer hide its ultimate ambition, giving China a major wake-up call After hiding it for three months, Anthropic has removed hidden code that iden...

Featured links China’s Leap into the Information Age Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues  here  & please  subscribe here  to support ChinAI und...

Plus, details on the college preference list, or what happens after the Gaokao? . Featured links An AI that serves as a reliable “college preference form partner” is the one truly “worthy of trust” Jia and Li (2021 Exporting U.S. Military AI Won’t Be Easy TP-Link’s American Dream Life Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musin...

Featured links My “Artificial Challenged Intelligence” Moment Chinese delivery drivers China is getting worried about AI & jobs How China is breaking apart a people and its culture How did Hangzhou become more hardware-oriented Today’s college students are living their university years like their final year of high school Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) wee...

Featured links Behind DeepSeek V4’s “Chip-Model Synergy”, the domestic computing ecosystem begins flywheel acceleration ChinaTalk article Ascend forums China Is Testing Its State Surveillance Model Abroad Kirsty Needham Simon Willison thread on thinness of AI-failure stories June 2026 Wonky China Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-la...

Featured links 2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership 2026-2027 Acts 1:7 ChinAI #29 America’s AI Action Plan Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues  here &nbsp...

Featured links Understanding China through DeepSeek’s Triple-Jump Valuation ChinAI #356 The US Is Running Dangerously Low on China Expertise Interpret: China (A CSIS Open Source Project) Why AI is the Hidden Minefield of Trump’s China Visit Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies AI creates a fearsome cold-war-sty...

Featured links ChinAI #350 10,000-character deep dive | ModelBest: at the limits of efficiency, continuously traversing the AGI cycles Now it’s your turn to foot the bill for (ByteDance’s) Doubao Young AI professionals face “debt collection” from former employers Release of Results for the AI Safety Benchmark (Q1 2026) AI PPT, this time, you really don’t need revisions Chinese Universities Discont...

Featured links 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 Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Politica...

Breaking down DeepSeek's V4 release. Featured links DeepSeek Overly Understated Don’t Overestimate Nvidia; Don’t Underestimate DeepSeek 50,000 lines of code Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the a...

Featured links 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 Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and r...

Eight things I learned about China's AI ecosystem over the past year of newsletter notes. Featured links ChinAI #343 Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues  here &nb...

An update to ChinAI issue #10, first published May 2018. Featured links A 10,000-character deconstruction of Palantir Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues  here &n...

Plus, what we can learn from its 2025 assessments. Featured links 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...

Featured links 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...

Featured links 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 Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of C...

Featured links 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 Thank you for reading an...

Featured links 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? Thank you for...

My latest article on how international private governance could play a role in AI governance. Featured links 2008 AI Safety/Security Governance Report ChinAI translation and coverage Alibaba’s The Large Language Model Technology development and governance practice report Carnegie analysis China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own Support for Washington Post international employe...

ByteDance vs. Tencent vs. Alibaba. Featured links Chronicles of the Great AI Battle among ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent — A destiny-changing Conflict Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archiv...

Plus, China's Industry-led AI Security and Safety Commitments. Featured links AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025) INTENT-FT AI Security and Safety Commitments Reputation Collectives paper How China and the US Can Make AI Safer for Everyone The (Geo)Political Economy of AI Openness - US and Chinese Open-Source AI Approaches in Historical Context Exclusive - How China built its ‘Man...

Featured links AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025) ChinAI #254 ChinAI #315 2025 Q1 benchmark Not Price Alone — Two Inflection Points Behind China’s Robot Vacuum Rise Over iRobot Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI The Enduring Value of Studying in China — A Conversation with the HNC’s Adam Webb Four young Chinese AI industry leaders hold open discussion (in Chinese) Thank you...

Featured links ChinAI #333 After my voice was “stolen” by AI, will I be replaced? HEYTEA falls off, DeepSeek Gets Defeated by this Company: Who Won the 2025 Battle of Best Brands? AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025) China’s Venture Capital Market Emerges from Winter The People who Resist AI The first state-owned enterprise AI unicorn emerges! ChatGPT, is it trying to “cross the ri...

China's new regulations matter but not for the reasons you think. Featured links An Initial Look at Companion AI Regulatory Pathways — Big Tech Firms are Sleepless English translation Geopolitechs blog ChinAI #271: Key Chinese GenAI Security Standard Changelog AI Futures Project update to AI 2027 The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy Nesta essay AI toys are all the rage in China—...

Plus, some AI stories from a Shanghai daily newspaper. Featured links What changes did AI actually bring to scientists this year? 400-500 copies Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of al...