“ChinAI #342: Around the Horn (23rd episode)” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured linksChinAI #333After my voice was “stolen” by AI, will I be replaced?HEYTEA falls off, DeepSeek Gets Defeated by this Company: Who Won the 2025 Battle of Best Brands?AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025)China’s Venture Capital Market Emerges from WinterThe People who Resist AIThe first state-owned enterprise AI unicorn emerges!ChatGPT, is it trying to “cross the river by feeling for the stones” of Ant AfuAI Verbally Abuses User, Tencent Yuanbao RespondsMiniMax went public (in HK) this morning, and its stock price surged by 80%Comprehensive Computing Power Index Blue Book (2025)ChinAI #159 Thank you for reading and engaging 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. Check out the archive of all past issues here & please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay for a subscription will support access for all). Any suggestions or feedback? Let me know at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jjding99 --- First published: January 12th, 2026 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-342-around-the-horn-23rd-episode --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.