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Where I Went and Who I Met The Week the Models Dropped The Policy Week A Few Words on the Cities Themselves The Culture of Chinese AI Labs The AI Labs: Impressions and Insights DeepSeek Moonshot AI (Kimi) Z.ai (Zhipu) Alibaba Cloud / Qwen AntGroup / Ant Ling MiniMax ByteDance Seed Open Source: The Default, With an Asterisk The Economics of Chinese AI ByteDance and Alibaba: The Ones to Watch The Agentic Moment Robotics: China Is Playing a Different Game The Scale of the Ambition What I Saw at Galaxea, Galbot, and Unitree The Honor Robot and What It Actually Means The Robotics Bubble Question Other Stops: Xiaohongshu, Xiaomi, and ModelScope Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Xiaomi ModelScope A Word on EVs and Batteries What I’m Watching Next: Quantum AI What I’m Bringing Back: Recommendations for the Open Source Community Coming Back: Macau and Alibaba, May 27–29 A Final Note on Geopolitics and the Open Source Imperative Acknowledgments Connect & Follow By Matt White, Global CTO of AI at the Linux Foundation & CTO of the PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & DataPublished: May 13, 2026Source: https://matthewdwhite.substack.com/p/eight-days-in-china-what-i-learned
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