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Featured links New-type AI Storage Research Report 80% of those chips to south China China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. DeepSeek, Huawei, Export Controls, and the Future of the U.S.-China AI Race The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership Are You My Boyfriend Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's...

Featured links 20 percent ChinAI #46 American 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 under a&nb...

Featured links New-type AI Storage Research Report ChinAI #254 Why AI Language models choke on too much text The Fear Tariff A Dictionary of Maqiao The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits 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 Wash...

Featured links Fleeing from big tech companies, they flock to junior colleges to be teachers AI as Normal Technology Equity and access to higher education in China AI Innovation & Security Policy Workshop International Student Visas Revoked 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 A...

The Beijing Cultural Review's view on U.S.-China Competition in AI. Featured links How has the West’s misjudgment of China’s AI ecosystem distorted the global technology competition landscape ChinAI #292 China is trying to create a national network of cloud computing centers Translated Notes on Tencent’s NDR The free‑living bureaucrat ChinAI issue A Defense of U.S. Education as an Export Thank you...

Featured links English translation ChinAI #271 Implementation Status for China’s Regulations on AI Content Labels ChinAI #196 Sinica Podcast CSIS’s ChinaPower podcast 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...

Featured links ChinAI #299 DeepSeek has sparked a crazy rush for Nvidia H20s, but the AI inference explosion is not just about hoarding chips EJIR article 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 arc...

Reflections on U.S. AI Strategy in Trump 2.0. Featured links ChinAI #260 ChinAI #262 ChinAI #275 ChinAI #281 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  &...

Featured links For some Chinese chips, “no end in sight” to support the full-parameter version of DeepSeek The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it China R&D Funding Report 2024 (in Chinese) How Candise Lin Became the Unofficial Ambassador of Chinese Internet Culture Why China may struggle to unlock the power of AI Thank you for reading and engaging These are Je...

Featured links AI Talent Report from Liepin Big Data Research Institute LinkedIn white paper The ‘Spy Sheikh’ Taking the AI World by Storm Book Talk at Microsoft Center Brussels Substack Live chat DeepSeek spreads across China with Beijing’s backing 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...

A SuperCLUE evaluation report. Featured links DeepSeek-R1 Stability on Third-party Platforms Report— 18 web-based evaluations AI Proem — Grace Shao’s substack Generative AI at Work ChinAI issue U.S. Open-Source AI Governance Tarbell Fellowship (center for AI journalism) Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and re...

How long does it take to transfer to a human customer service agent?. Featured links China's most humble profession is being forced out of work by Artificial Challenged Intelligence ChinAI #144 ChinAI #165 Tools and Weapons podcast Dicey Debt Collection It’s Not Just Technology — What it Means to be a Global Leader in AI The Paris Summit — Au Revoir, global AI Safety? Thank you for reading and eng...

Featured links The True Unicorns? 1 billion tokens/day Users PhD in theoretical computer science Promising Topics for US–China Dialogues on AI Safety and Governance What do we know about China’s new AI safety institute? DeepSeek and Other Chinese Firms Converge with Western Companies on AI Promises China in a World of Orders — Rethinking Compliance and Challenge in Beijing's International Relation...

Plus, 2025 Look-Ahead on AI Trends. Featured links ChinAI #280 Vox 2025 Look-Ahead — What historical node are we at in AI development? ChinAI #296 MiniMax-01 paper Jeff on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show AI Generated Fake News is Taking Over my Family Group Chat Helen Toner’s thread of good DeepSeek takes Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes)...

Featured links ChinAI #290 2024 China Open Source Developers Annual Report AI-generated fake news, taking over my family group AI is changing the world, they are changing AI In the AI ​​era, don’t look at unicorns, daily consumers of 1 billion tokens Real-world test — I used AI to do a year-end summary Data Governance Research Report How to build data infrastructure that stimulates 2 billion RMB i...

Featured links DeepSeek goes left, ModelBest goes right AItechtalk article How Bad is Bypassing Paywalls ChinAI #199 profile of ModelBest The US Army needs less good, cheaper drones to compete Inadvertent Expansion 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...

Featured links A cruel reality for Chinese AI chip companies Machine Failing — The Linkage Between Software Development and Military Accidents Machine Failing: How Systems Acquisition and Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents AI and the future of workforce training DeepSeek v3: The Six Million Dollar Model Digital Sovereignty: A Descriptive Analysis and a Critical Evaluation...

Featured links Has the fourth wave of scientist returnees arrived? Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 Latitudes How a Young Chinese Nationalist Turned Her Back on Beijing The Next Great GPT — Advancing Prosperity in the Age of AI 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 r...

Featured links Transparency assessment of 15 Chinese large models Foundation Model Transparency Index A Reading List On Artificial Intelligence and Interspecies Communication China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together ETO AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive The Ringer in Review Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly trans...

Featured links Chinese Misperceptions of U.S. Technology Strategy ETO Scout tool GAO report The Logic of Strategic Assets Whack-a-Chip: The Futility of Hardware-Centric Export Controls Chinese AI Companies Are Catching Up Despite U.S. Restrictions AI Safety and Automation Bias China Leadership Monitor Winter 2024 Issue Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly tra...

Featured links Chinese Large Model Benchmark Evaluation October 2024 Report ChinAI #224 CSET-ETO Chinese Technical Glossary The US Can Win Without Compromising AI Safety Long interview with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng Beijing book talk events 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 ChinAI #283 Why is Baidu the only Chinese company to make it into the first tier of a global AI company ranking? Chinese software must go global, but it can’t always go it alone Chinese open source models lead foreign ones, closing in on global first-tier closed source models With the emergence of visual model intelligence, the Scaling Law has not coming to an end How did the founde...

Featured links Two of the five companies that “cultivate” the most Chinese AI entrepreneurs are foreign companies From Click to Boom — The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukes From Laboratory to Hegemony? November 25, Monday noon (UK time) at the China Centre November 26, Tuesday noon (UK time) at the Oxford Martin School Th...

Featured links People at large tech companies, strategically preparing for pregnancy Granta 169: China Picun Epic’s overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue Concordia AI Fall 2024 Hiring Announcement Beijing Academy of AI launches LLM debate platform Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language mu...

The Chinese AI chip firm goes public. Featured links Horizon Robotics Goes Public ChinAI #20 ChinAI #265 ChinAI #221 Chinese AI Safety Institute Counterparts US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowships Miles Brundage — Why I’m Leaving OpenAI and What I’m Doing Next Moving Data, Moving Target The Maven Smart System and the Future of Military AI November 25, Monday noon (UK time) at the China Centre Nove...