To my Tokyo ears, Shanghai is eerily quiet. Both mega cities are 30 million plus, not lacking in the hustle and bustle of human traffic. The difference to me is decibels on the roads. You can identify Electric Vehicles (EV) by their green license plates in China, and just eyeballing it, I felt that that… Continue reading Quiet Roads, Loud Stakes: China and Japan’s EV Futures
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Unitree Robotics and a Vision of The Matrix: Need Your Robot to Cook? There’s an App for That
Author with buddy H1 Neo (looking at a helicopter): Can you fly that thing? Trinity: Not yet. Tank (on the phone): Operator. Trinity: Tank, I need a pilot program for a B-212 helicopter. Hurry. A few seconds later, the program is downloaded into Trinity, and she’s ready to fly. That scene from the 1999 film,… Continue reading Unitree Robotics and a Vision of The Matrix: Need Your Robot to Cook? There’s an App for That
“Wise People Copy”: The Rise and Elevation of China’s Meituan
He was a PhD student in America in the post-dot.com boom, and he saw the future. He quit his studies, returned to China, and built a social network, inspired by Friendster. An ugly, unwieldy duckling, it flopped. He tried again, this time copying the hot college social network, Facebook, calling it Xiaonei. The name, which… Continue reading “Wise People Copy”: The Rise and Elevation of China’s Meituan
The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
You win some. You lose some. But when you lose half a trillion dollars in a single day, it's hard to be philosophical. Ask Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose stock price fell off a cliff on Monday, January 27, 2025, taking the stock price of the entire alphabet of tech firms… Continue reading The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek