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Cloud Rebuilt for Machines
Alibaba Cloud is redesigning its entire stack for agents, from chips to tokens.
21 hrs ago • Poe Zhao
The Siphon Effect
How AI’s capacity pull is reshaping China’s mature-node foundries, specialty processes, and DRAM supply.
May 20 • Poe Zhao
China Builds the Plumbing, Not the Agent
Baidu proposed measuring how many agents finish work each day. The real story is the infrastructure China is assembling underneath them.
May 18 • Yanting and Poe Zhao
China Can Hold Up Nvidia’s H200
Washington cleared selected buyers. Beijing showed that export approval no longer guarantees Chinese demand.
May 17 • Poe Zhao
Sell First or Build First
Alibaba is monetizing scarce compute first. Tencent is deploying it internally first. China’s AI economics now turns on sequencing.
May 15 • Poe Zhao
120 Million Users, Zero Revenue: China’s AI Education Race
Platform giants and tutoring incumbents are flooding in. Neither side has found a way to charge.
May 14 • Poe Zhao and Yanting
Samsung Lost China’s Living Rooms, Memory Became the Prize
Samsung left China's TV and home-appliance market on the same day it became Asia's second trillion-dollar company. The two events share a logic.
May 12 • Poe Zhao
China Already Ran Hollywood's AI Experiment
The bottleneck was never cost.
May 11 • Poe Zhao and Yanting
DeepSeek on China’s National Balance Sheet
China’s semiconductor fund entering talks with a frontier model lab would put AI on the same strategic ledger as chip foundries.
May 7 • Poe Zhao
The Great Consumer AI Monetization Divergence
OpenAI is lowering the price of ChatGPT. ByteDance is testing paid Doubao. Both reveal the same unresolved problem: consumer AI still has to pay for…
May 6 • Poe Zhao and Yanting
China’s AI Car Race Is About Control
At Beijing Auto Show, automakers and AI suppliers are fighting over the layer between driver intent and vehicle action.
May 5 • Poe Zhao
Unitree Opened a Robot Store. What It Really Sells Is Time
Unitree is selling robots. The real product is time.
May 4 • Poe Zhao
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