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ChinAI Newsletter

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Feb 26, 2024 • 10min

“ChinAI #255: Panic buying, speculative booms, and whack-a-mole — what lengths will Chinese companies go to get an NVIDIA A100 chip?” by Jeffrey Ding

Chinese companies are going to great lengths to acquire NVIDIA A100 chips, even resorting to panic buying and speculative booms. The podcast explores the intense competition in the market, trade restrictions, and the emergence of the A800 as a substitute. It also delves into the role of computing power in AI governance and career opportunities.
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Feb 12, 2024 • 6min

“ChinAI #254: Tencent Res. Institute Tackles Value Alignment in Large Model Security & Ethics Research Report” by Jeffrey Ding

Tencent Research Institute's report delves into large model security practices and value alignment in AI models. They discuss vulnerability assessments, protection of source code, and global AI safety developments
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Feb 5, 2024 • 8min

“ChinAI #253: Tencent Research Institute releases Large Model Security & Ethics Report” by Jeffrey Ding

The podcast explores Tencent Research Institute's research report on large language models, emphasizing value alignment for innovation. Topics include security challenges, best practices, and the importance of responsible AI. It also delves into Tencent's security measures, learning from Western labs, and challenges faced by students studying abroad in China during the pandemic.
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Jan 29, 2024 • 6min

“ChinAI #252: The Top 10 Events of Internet Governance in China from 2023” by Jeffrey Ding

Explore the key events in China's internet governance from 2023 including national data administration, cybersecurity reviews, financial platform fines, regulations on cyber violence management, AI content, AI model approvals, data asset regulations, online judicial decision controversies, AI text-to-image infringement, and previews of China's upcoming AI rules in 2024.
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Jan 22, 2024 • 5min

“ChinAI #251: A surprise in the data on China’s chip imports” by Jeffrey Ding

Jeff Ding, podcast host, discusses the drop in China's chip imports, including geopolitical tensions and localization efforts. They also explore challenges in measuring China's chip self-sufficiency and touch on topics like AI safety and cybersecurity skills of language agents.
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Jan 15, 2024 • 6min

“ChinAI #250: LLMs summarize China’s 2023 in one word” by Jeffrey Ding

Jeff Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, discusses how language models summarize China's 2023, hottest internet events, college graduate employment, and generative AI. The podcast also explores the decline in American students studying Chinese and the Chinese approach to maintenance management.
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Jan 8, 2024 • 7min

“ChinAI #249: China’s idle AI computing centers” by Jeffrey Ding

In this podcast, Jeff Ding discusses the issue of high idle rates in China's computing centers and the challenges they pose. The conversation also explores the implementation gap for large language models and the unfair scrutiny faced by Asian American officials. Furthermore, the podcast delves into investigative reporting on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, along with China's strategy in the AI race.
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Dec 18, 2023 • 6min

“ChinAI #248: XiaoIce, where do we go from here?” by Jeffrey Ding

Exploring the future of Xiaoice in a ChatGPT world, post Microsoft spinoff. Li Di as CEO, challenges faced by Xiaoice. Teng Shiao-o's legacy honored, AI metaphors in policy-making discussed. Book recommendations for 2023 included.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 7min

“ChinAI #247: XiaoIce, a Strange Species of Chatbot” by Jeffrey Ding

The podcast explores the history and strategy of XiaoIce chatbot in China, its innovative approach on WeChat, emphasis on data cleaning, setbacks like missing out on large language models. Delve into translated Chinese AI white papers, PhD job market papers on knowledge spillovers, gender gap in STEM fields. Support Jeff Ding's weekly translations of Chinese musings on AI.
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Dec 4, 2023 • 7min

“ChinAI #246: The State of Large Model Governance in China” by Jeffrey Ding

Learn about the governance of large language models in China, including algorithm filing registry and safety assessments. Discover the challenges in setting safety benchmarks and tracing model origins. Explore diverse AI applications and ethical implications.

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