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

Featured links

• ChinAI #333
• After 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 Winter
• The People who Resist AI
• The first state-owned enterprise AI unicorn emerges!
• ChatGPT, is it trying to “cross the river by feeling for the stones” of Ant Afu
• AI Verbally Abuses User, Tencent Yuanbao Responds
• MiniMax 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.

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First published:
January 12th, 2026

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-342-around-the-horn-23rd-episode

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