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($) "Death" of Qwen and the “Hundred Claws War”
ICYMI: I went on the Kyle Chan’s High Capacity podcast and Jordan Schneider’s ChinaTalk to talk about my recently published long piece on the history of…
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Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History
Open source used to be a niche topic.
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($) Alibaba's AI Drama
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($) Kimi Kimi on the Wall
Who is the fairest (open weight) model of all?
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From DeepSeek-R1 to gpt-oss
Finally, some positive-sum competition between the US and China
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China's Structural Advantage in Open Source AI
Not just my words, Ion Stoica’s too.
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($) DeepSeek Diffusion
It’s about open vs closed, not (just) about the US vs China
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($) DeepSeek's Three Idiosyncratic Advantages
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($) Llama 3.1 and Its Geopolitical Implications
Output for training, synthetic data use, and more
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($) Tracking Global AI Talent Flow
Is sovereign AI keeping more talents at home?
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($) AI Executive Order: Likes and Dislikes
Four dislikes and two likes of a laundry list of self-contradicting rules
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🏛️Washington is Using China to Destroy Open Source
It is undemocratic and will only backfire.
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