# chinese ai (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover chinese ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Limits of Talking About China in Europe](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-talking-about-china) _2026-08-21 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ In classrooms and courtrooms, and on campuses across Europe, scholars are engaged in a quiet struggle to speak freely about a country whose impact can be felt everywhere. ## [Baidu’s AI Spending and Kunlunxin’s $50 Billion Target](https://hellochinatech.com/p/baidu-kunlunxin-valuation) _2026-08-20 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Baidu tripled AI capex while its stock fell. The connection to Kunlunxin’s $50bn IPO target is the question this analysis asks. ## [Unitree’s $50bn Valuation Meets a Longer Robot Timeline](https://hellochinatech.com/p/unitree-ipo-valuation-timeline) _2026-08-20 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ One year after saying robotics’ “ChatGPT moment” could take one to five years, Wang Xingxing put the range at two to ten. ## [ByteDance Bets Against Its Own Playbook](https://hellochinatech.com/p/bytedance-seedance-language-bet) _2026-08-19 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ ByteDance's Seedance won by concentrating teams and compute. This analysis tests whether that method survives a 5-to-10-trillion-parameter language model. ## [The Folklore Ledger of China’s Robot Boom](https://hellochinatech.com/p/china-embodied-ai-funding) _2026-08-18 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Rmb 43.8bn raised by June 12; the spending record is mostly rumor, and the few mandatory filings disagree. ## [Hanging a Banner for Chinese AI](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/hanging-a-banner-for-chinese-ai) _2026-08-18 · David Bandurski · Lingua Sinica_ Yesterday’s edition of the Chinese Communist Party's official People's Daily made a bold visual claim to leadership on artificial intelligence at home and abroad. ## [The Like Economy](https://hellochinatech.com/p/hugging-face-china-open-models) _2026-08-17 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Hugging Face's mid-year data separates AI attention from AI adoption. For Moonshot, the gap now sits beside a $50bn valuation ask. ## [9 Big questions benchmarks can help answer](https://epochai.substack.com/p/9-big-questions-benchmarks-can-help) _2026-08-14 · Greg Burnham · Epoch AI_ A good benchmark asks more than just “can AI do this specific task?” ## [Tencent’s Second Book Is One Number](https://hellochinatech.com/p/tencent-new-ai-products-drag) _2026-08-14 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Tencent has quantified what its new AI products subtract from profit, but not their standalone revenue, assets or cash flows. ## [The Problem With Peach](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-peach) _2026-08-14 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ AI anchors and AI-generated dramas are growing rapidly in China. But how far can a generative persona go before the illusion is broken? Meet Peach Fang. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MyPgbAL0vFS7) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Will financing bottleneck AI compute? An Anthropic case study](https://epochai.substack.com/p/will-financing-bottleneck-ai-compute) _2026-08-13 · Campbell Hutcheson · Epoch AI_ Why Anthropic's buildout suggests that financing is unlikely to be the immediate blocker to frontier AI compute growth. ## [Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control](https://www.understandingai.org/p/labs-are-struggling-to-keep-frontier) _2026-08-13 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking. ## [The Split That Requires No Sale](https://hellochinatech.com/p/tesla-china-separation) _2026-08-13 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ US and Chinese rules are dividing Tesla's data, software and supply chains without changing who owns the China business. ## [Lining Up the Pro-Beijing Press](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/lining-up-the-pro-beijing-press) _2026-08-13 · David Bandurski · Lingua Sinica_ Last week, Hong Kong’s security chief renewed attacks on the territory’s independent journalists’ union. The move was aided by coverage from pro-government media outlets. ## [What I Got Wrong About China Tech](https://hellochinatech.com/p/china-tech-newsletter-scored) _2026-08-12 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ One year of paid essays, scored in public: two calls held clean, one broke on its arithmetic, and one I missed. ## [The Identity Squeeze](https://hellochinatech.com/p/genspark-identity-squeeze) _2026-08-11 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Chinese AI founders turned American identity into a product. Beijing, Washington, and the model labs are all repricing it. ## [Washington Targets China’s Next Optical Module](https://hellochinatech.com/p/fcc-chinese-optical-transceiver-rule) _2026-08-10 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ The reported draft would exempt the optical modules Chinese suppliers already sell in the US, so the cost would land a full product cycle later. ## [The Robot Data Moat Has No Common Denominator](https://hellochinatech.com/p/china-robot-training-data-cost) _2026-08-07 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Five Chinese robot startups are valued above Rmb 20bn on data claims measured in hours, trajectories, skills and units nobody defines. ## [AMEC Still Needs the Order](https://hellochinatech.com/p/amec-china-chip-equipment) _2026-08-05 · Poe Zhao · Hello China Tech_ Anonymous sources place Samsung and SK Hynix inside a Chinese toolmaker’s evaluation pipeline, Samsung denies it, and AMEC’s 311% profit guidance came mostly from gains on its equity portfolio. ## [You Watch But Don’t Absorb](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/you-watch-but-dont-absorb) _2026-08-05 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ As independent journalists face mounting pressure in Kyrgyzstan, Chinese state media have quietly built influence over two decades. Adina Masalbekova tells Lingua Sinica how it happened. ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KPBUs0znvCdX) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them](https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with) _2026-08-04 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field. ## [Our advertising principles](https://www.understandingai.org/p/our-advertising-principles) _2026-08-04 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ How we fund our journalism without compromising our independence. ## [The Epoch Brief - July 31, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-july-31-2026) _2026-08-01 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ Expanding FrontierMath: Open Problems, how "parallelizability" determines a technological singularity, the realities of AI energy use, and signs of AI uplift ## [Taiwan Conquest Film Shelved](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/taiwan-conquest-film-shelved) _2026-07-31 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ A Chinese blockbuster dramatizing the 17th-century Qing conquest of Taiwan has been abruptly postponed. Why are China’s authorities so uneasy about a film that was meant to celebrate “unification”? ## [Hong Kong’s Securitized Media Culture](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/hong-kongs-securitized-media-culture) _2026-07-28 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ A weekly TV series made by Hong Kong's security bureau, recasting political prosecutions as morality tales, reveals a troubling convergence of media and political power in the city. ## [OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming?](https://epochai.substack.com/p/openai-accidentally-hacked-hugging) _2026-07-23 · Alexander Barry · Epoch AI_ Expert assessments and cyber benchmarks led us to expect that frontier models were capable of executing this kind of cyberattack ## [An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark](https://www.understandingai.org/p/an-openai-model-hacked-hugging-face) _2026-07-22 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities. ## [The Risks and Rewards of Chinese AI](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/the-risks-and-rewards-of-chinese) _2026-07-15 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ PRC state media give a friendly wink to an op-ed urging Europe to embrace cheap, powerful Chinese AI. As US models get pricier, will the dangers of China's models get the scrutiny they deserve? ## [An OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition](https://www.understandingai.org/p/an-openai-model-crushed-top-human) _2026-07-10 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ But human programmers aren’t obsolete — at least not yet. ## [The Propaganda Promise of AI](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/the-propaganda-promise-of-ai) _2026-07-09 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ The top editor of the government-run China Daily says AI is now an "action tool" for propaganda, not just analysis, citing rapid-response videos and new state media partnerships. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pHKY8CCfdMEh) _2026-07-09 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [The Epoch Brief - July 8, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-july-8-2026) _2026-07-08 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ A board game AI can't master, a cyber-disclosure spike after Claude Mythos, GPT-4's record run atop the ECI, and what's missing from AI futurism discourse ## [The missing half of AI futurism debates](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-missing-half-of-ai-futurism-debates) _2026-07-07 · JS Denain · Epoch AI_ Why we should think a little harder about what it takes to build a Dyson Sphere ## [After Impact: The Bizarre Silence Behind the Beijing Plane Crash](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/after-impact-the-bizarre-silence) _2026-07-03 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ This story and more, including the censoring of a rare corruption investigation in China, and the closure of a student magazine in Hong Kong. ## [7 charts that show why you should advertise on Understanding AI](https://www.understandingai.org/p/7-charts-that-show-why-you-should) _2026-06-29 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ The newsletter will remain ad-free for paying readers. ## [The US now has a de facto model licensing system](https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-us-now-has-a-de-facto-model-licensing) _2026-06-29 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.6, is waiting for government approval. ## [The Epoch Brief - June 26, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-june-26-2026) _2026-06-26 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ Our new long-horizon coding benchmark, hyperscaler cash flows, tracking AI R&D automation, and Chinese lab strategies ## [China’s Vanishing Space for Rainbow Journalism](https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/chinas-vanishing-space-for-rainbow) _2026-06-25 · Lingua Sinica · Lingua Sinica_ The longest-running annual survey of LGBT+ representation in China’s media has marked 15 years, but the coverage it was meant to document has become rarer than ever. ## [What we learned from 1,604 Chinese AI job postings](https://epochai.substack.com/p/what-we-learned-from-1604-chinese) _2026-06-24 · Cheryl Wu · Epoch AI_ Inferring Chinese AI labs’ strategies from their job descriptions ## [Toward an O\*NET for AI R&D](https://epochai.substack.com/p/toward-an-onet-for-ai-r-and-d) _2026-06-17 · JS Denain · Epoch AI_ Proposing a new way to track AI research automation ## [The MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic](https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-maga-power-struggle-that-could) _2026-06-15 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ It may not be easy for Anthropic to escape the Trump export ban. ## [The Epoch Brief - June 12, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-june-12-2026) _2026-06-12 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ Increased cyber vulnerability reports, Mythos' cyber hype, Fable 5's lead on FrontierMath v2, record-setting data centers, and what wealth distribution could look like after AGI ## [Anthropic’s Fable is the most locked-down public model we’ve ever seen](https://www.understandingai.org/p/anthropics-fable-is-the-most-locked) _2026-06-11 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ How Anthropic decides which questions are too dangerous for Claude to answer. ## [DC-area happy hour on June 23!](https://www.understandingai.org/p/dc-area-happy-hour-on-june-23) _2026-06-11 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Meet the Understanding AI team — and some friends of the newsletter. ## [Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding](https://www.understandingai.org/p/anthropic-has-caught-up-to-openai) _2026-06-10 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ But neither one is all that good. ## [We're building a different kind of AI newsroom](https://www.understandingai.org/p/were-building-a-different-kind-of) _2026-06-01 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Your subscription dollars now directly support Kai Williams. ## [OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths](https://www.understandingai.org/p/openais-milestone-math-breakthrough) _2026-05-28 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ I tried to explain OpenAI’s solution more clearly than OpenAI did. ## [Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car](https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-it-might-not-make-sense-for-you) _2026-05-14 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Tensor let me sit in their driverless car. It might go on sale in the US next year. ## [A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI](https://www.understandingai.org/p/a-big-lesson-of-my-china-visit-compute) _2026-05-12 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry. ## [I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”](https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-dont-think-we-are-close-to-ai-scientists) _2026-05-06 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations. ## [Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos](https://www.understandingai.org/p/human-drivers-keep-crashing-into-454) _2026-04-22 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ Waymo's biggest mistakes happened when it stopped in the wrong place.