ChinAI Newsletter

An update to ChinAI issue #10, first published May 2018.
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A 10,000-character deconstruction of Palantir

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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.


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March 23rd, 2026


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https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-352-a-10000-character-treatise

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Plus, what we can learn from its 2025 assessments.
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AI Safety/Security Research Report (CAICT, Nov 2025)
CAICT launches its first batch of AI Safety/Security Assessments of 2026
ChinAI #261
The Long Now of the Web - Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting
China’s AI Governance -A Conversation with Professor Zhang Linghan
China’s Economic Involution - State and Business Strategies
A house of mistakes

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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.


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March 16th, 2026


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https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-351-caict-launches-2026-ai

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ChinAI #342
China is stirring up an OpenClaw tempest
MiniMax hasn’t gone crazy, the market has gone crazy
I waited 100+ days for a full-time job at a big tech firm
Don’t get fooled by those Spring Festival Gala robots
AI Signboards in a County Town
A midnight earthquake for Alibaba Qwen, Junyang Lin steps down
CAICT launches its first batch of AI Safety/Security Assessments of 2026
The 2025 Annual Chinese Large Model Benchmark Evaluation report is out!
ChinAI #324
Zhihu founder Zhou Yuan proposes “AI Comic Book Infringement Speed ​​Far Exceeds Rights Protection; A Fast-Track Green Channel Should Be Established”
Comparing financials: market remains calm on Cambricon despite profits; MetaX and Moore Threads lack large orders
ChinAI
Substack post
DeepInfra
Cerebras
OpenRouter

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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.


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First published:

March 9th, 2026


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https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-350-around-the-horn-24th-episode

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Chinese Tokens Go Global
663B tokens from MiniMax
Chinese AI models capture 61% of token use on OpenRouter (sloppy perplexity page)
She runs AI safety at Meta. Her AI agent still went rogue
State of AI - An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter
Power and Advantage in the AI Era

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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.


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First published:

March 2nd, 2026


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https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-348-tokens-made-in-china

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2025 China Computing Power Industry Chronicles - Frenzy, Growing Pains, and Value Reversion
The Truth About DeepSeek All-in-One Machine Deployment
Assetizing, Trading, Franchising: China’s Strategy for Building a National Data Economy
Does the UAE have an Advantage in Building Data Centers?
Inference Scaling and AI Governance
Recreating the Smells of History

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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.


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First published:

February 23rd, 2026


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https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-348-chinas-compute-year-in

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