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Beijing Paces at the Gate
Anthropic wants an evaluator at the desk. Beijing keeps the assessor at the door. The risk lists overlap. The checkpoints do not.
Sep 15
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Poe Zhao
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The Same Wall, Built Two Ways
The US allowed Tesla to certify first and answer questions later. China’s robotaxi operators separated driverless service from driverless vehicle…
Sep 15
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Poe Zhao
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The Like Economy
Hugging Face’s mid-year data separates AI attention from AI adoption. For Moonshot, the gap now sits beside a $50bn valuation ask.
Aug 17
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Poe Zhao
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AMEC Still Needs the Order
Anonymous sources place Samsung and SK Hynix inside a Chinese toolmaker’s evaluation pipeline, Samsung denies it, and AMEC’s 311% profit guidance came…
Aug 5
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Poe Zhao
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CXMT’s 466% Debut on a 6.73% Float
China’s most valuable mainland-listed company opened with 4.5bn of its 66.9bn shares free to trade. The first major supply test arrives in July 2027.
Jul 29
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Poe Zhao
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Two Dots, No Line
Bernstein asks if two dots make a line. Inside Tencent, they do not yet connect.
Jul 10
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Poe Zhao
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Meituan and the Infrastructure Trap
Meituan begins opening fulfillment capability to external AI agents. The structural question is who keeps the pricing power.
Jun 25
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Poe Zhao
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The Sovereign AI Salesman
Kai-Fu Lee's AI startup abandoned the model arms race to sell sovereign AI systems to governments, with a 2027 IPO in sight.
Jun 24
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Poe Zhao
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The Token Hangover
Tech companies from Tencent to Uber are rationing AI token budgets. The shift from adoption theater to cost accounting has begun.
Jun 22
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Poe Zhao
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DeepSeek’s $7.4 Billion Price Tag
Liang Wenfeng put $3 billion of his own money into a round built to anchor DeepSeek’s valuation and preserve founder control.
Jun 17
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Poe Zhao
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China Can Hold Up Nvidia’s H200
Washington cleared selected buyers. Beijing showed that export approval no longer guarantees Chinese demand.
May 17
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Poe Zhao
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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
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Poe Zhao
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