Xi Jinping

“Alibaba plans to make the model open-weight soon... Alibaba stopped releasing weights for its leading edge models earlier this year, but appears to have reverted that change.”

“The strategy for China is obvious: commoditize your complements.”

“Chinese President Xi Jinping called for more open-source AI and global AI governance at a Shanghai conference, contrasting China's increasingly open model strategy with the closed systems favored by OpenAI and Anthropic”

“AI is the only thing that feels like it's propping up the economy right now. The Trump administration has too much to lose.”

“What China has done to Europe economically, they're going to try to do to the AI market what they tried to do to the steel market here in the 80s and 90s.”

“Kevin Rudd used to be the Australian prime minister, is fluent in Mandarin, by the way, has a PhD in Mandarin, is really a Xi watcher. He said that Xi's a risk taker.”

“Trump has already left Beijing as you read this, and as predicted on the podcast, the deliverables from his visit were underwhelming (at least so far).”