ChinAI Newsletter

Featured links When the Cloud Ecosystem Enters a Governance Phase AWS resellers AItechtalk article Purdue effectively bans grad students from China, other countries, faculty say 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 Univer...

Featured links MCP Cools, just One Year after its Birth ChinAI #275 AAU Expresses Concerns on NDAA’s SAFE Research Act How China talks about ‘agentic AI’ DSET event on Technology and the Rise of Great Powers 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 Scien...

Why Chinese parents have sought out Zebra English's AI tutor Jessica. Featured links The First AI English Teacher “Takes Office” The Larger Meaning of China’s Crackdown on School Tutoring In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research New International Student Enrollments Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly...

Hopes and delusions about China's Little AI Dragons. Featured links Who will come and challenge OpenAI? ChinAI #313 ChinAI #264 663B tokens from MiniMax Emergency Response Measures for Catastrophic AI Risk Frontier AI Risk Management Framework in Practice: A Risk Analysis Technical Report President for Life Tarbell Fellowship Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) wee...

Featured links Stanford’s AI Index Report ChinAI #162 ChinAI #331 The State of Chinese AI Apps 2025 Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China A Project is Not a Bundle of Tasks The Cyber Offense-Defense Balance for Trailing-Edge Organizations Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related...

Featured links How a University is “Transforming” its Humanities and Social Sciences Program Roundtable Reviews of The power of one: How standout firms grow national productivity Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Zhang Xuefeng, Hu Chenfeng, Lan Zhanfei Hit With Bans Second and Long Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) we...

Featured links Chili Wok ChinAI #326 The SuperCLUE September 2025 report has been released! ChinAI #324 When we talk about “AI Search”, what are we talking about? With state-affiliated investment exceeding 30%, investment is fueling adding fuel to the robotics industry The most unusual AI money-making scheme has emerged Can (Alibaba’s) Quark succeed as a Chinese ChatGPT? The “Disenchantment and Re...

Featured links New AI PhD grads are “unsellable” ChinAI #111 Twitter post Running the Right AI Race — A National Strategy for AI diffusion Industrial Policy and Economic Security Conference Could the AirPods Pro 3 Mean the End of Subtitles? OPT Observatory First Key Update to International AI Safety Report Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of...

Featured links Chinese Public Perceptions and Usage of Generative AI WeChat’s integration of DeepSeek Compute is not the answer to AI sovereignty The U.S. Needs A Generative AI Intensity Index Grant Delays Threaten Cultural and Language Studies Programs DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning Miles Brundage Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's...

Plus, a deeper dive into the CSRankings methodology. Featured links Ending CMU’s Dominance, Tsinghua University Takes the Top Spot in CSRankings! Peking University Leads in AI CSRankings Here’s Every Great Tech Hub Needs Regulation U.S. Loses Appeal for Chinese AI Researchers US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowships Correction to ChinAI #328 on Cold Reality for Chinese AI Start-ups Thank you for rea...

Featured links Mid-Year Review of Major Cloud Providers Topology of “China AI” Selective Restraint: How China Regulates Facial Recognition in 2025 US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowships ChinAI #305: Computing Power Shifts in the AI Inference Era 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...

Featured links The Realities of AI Start-ups in 2025 PhD in theoretical computer science China's Big AI Diffusion Plan is Here. Will it Work? ChinAI full translation Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening Working with US CAISI and UK AISI to build more secure AI systems Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show Thank you for reading and e...

A Strategic Reading of China’s Three-step AI Strategy for the Next Decade. Featured links The Nation Sets the Tone for “AI Plus” Geopolitechs newsletter Measures for the Security Management of Facial Recognition Technology Applications The AI Plus initiative – China’s blueprint for AI diffusion China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. Assassin’s Apprentice Thank you for reading an...

Featured links State of AI Safety in China (2025) Worrying example of AI slop Lao Dongyan on 2024 and Renewal ChinAI #77 Political Economy of AI Syllabus 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 arch...

Why are Chinese tech giants spending so little on AI Capex?. Featured links In this US-China AI race, Chinese internet giants are rapidly becoming marginalized ChinAI #98 McKinsey report. China Watching in Chinese - A Guide to Chinese-Language Analysis of Chinese Politics Bumingbai [不明白播客] podcast Tencent Research Institute and Factchecking Platform Jiao Zhen Analyzed 100 Cases of AI-generate...

Featured links Tencent Research Institute and Factchecking Platform Jiao Zhen Analyzed 100 Cases of AI-generated Disinformation Tencent Res. Institute Tackles Value Alignment in Large Model Security & Ethics Research Report Thread on World AI Conference in Shanghai Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire? Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes)...

Featured links The latest notes on DeepSeek’s all-in-one machine Financial Times China Brief Sources LinkedIn posts Leiphone article The Audiobook version of You don’t have to be America or China to win in AI, says Rishi Sunak Why are there no massive Chinese SaaS companies? The Summer of Free AI-gency Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chin...

Featured links Young people who love acting crazy, intensely act crazy toward AI ChinAI #300 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  su...

Featured links The 2024 China Developer Survey Report is here! Promising Topics for U.S.–China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance Two Rulings on Fair Use and LLM Training Can Multinationals Win in China? Lessons from Apple’s Experience Financial Security: Lian Ping on US Sanctions, SWIFT and De-Dollarisation Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations...

Featured links The Aftermath — Her husband gifted a female streamer 16 million RMB SCMP article Zhibo gonghui: China’s ‘live-streaming guilds’ of manipulation experts The influence of AI Friendship Apps on users' well-being and addiction Verification of Frontier AI John S. Foster Jr., Pentagon scientist who developed warheads, dies at 102 Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (s...

Featured links AI large models can’t solve Gaokao questions, nor do they dare to solve them ImportAI on China’s heterogenous compute cluster Can Multinationals Win in China? Lessons from Apple’s Experience Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in Primary and Secondary Schools (in Chinese) Artificial Eyes - Generative AI in China’s Military Intelligence Thank you for reading and engaging These ar...

Featured links ChinAI #307 Between the U.S. and China, it is not about “who defeats whom” People who work for AI, lost in data labeling AI trainers AI large models can’t solve gaokao questions, nor do they dare to solve them There are really no good data center stocks to buy As the popularity of large model (startups) recedes, real technology innovators begin to be “seen” How does a Chinese AI vid...

Featured links ChinAI #237 ChinAI #261 Sohu article GitHub page Q4 2024 update 2025 Q1 benchmark GitHub page DSPSafeBench What China’s generative AI registration data can tell us about China’s AI competitiveness Concordia’s AI Safety in China Newsletter We surveyed 12 public companies about the truth behind DeepSeek’s all-in-one servers A daughter spent two years creating her own AI father Thank y...

Featured links Can AI save China's independent cloud providers? Leiphone article Green monetary policy in China - window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment Funding the AI Cloud — Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Investments, Part 1 After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left Fading Beacon Thank yo...

Featured links China’s Big 5 Foundation Model Companies contend for supremacy ChinAI #284) UC San Diego Book Talk Advancing Department of Defense Test and Evaluation for AI and Autonomous Systems TNSR article China's province most lacking in universities is frantically building junior colleges (in Chinese) The Romance of Being Unreadable Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (so...