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Partner, Tech @triviumchina / Chinese data, AI, and tech policy / In China For Noodles since 2002. Read what I write: https://nitter.cf/t.co/jVwiYUp3cp

Beijing, China
Joined January 2009
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Come work with us! Our China AI team is hiring a Program Assistant. The ideal candidate will help form the administrative and operational backbone of our growing research and convening work. If you're looking to break into the foreign policy field, begin a career in DC, or make an impact on U.S.-China relations and AI, this could be the role for you! @mattsheehan88 and I and our growing team look forward to hearing from you. Link below:
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🚨 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🚨 DOES CHINA WANT AN AI SLOWDOWN? I ask Kendra Schaefer (@kendraschaefer), head of Tech Policy Research at Trivium China: - How does China see calls for an AI slowdown? - What AI risks is China worried about? - How is China actually trying to regulate AI? YouTube: youtube.com/@HighCapacityPod… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6kafwx…
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Thrilled to be part of the @BrookingsInst delegation to Taiwan, and many thanks to @ChingteLai for the warm welcome.
A warm welcome to @ryanl_hass and the @BrookingsInst delegation. As we face authoritarian expansion, supply chain restructuring, the AI wave & other global challenges, #Taiwan will continue to deepen its partnership with the #US in all areas to safeguard peace & democracy.
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This is a terrific piece by @kendraschaefer in the current issue of The Ideas Letter, which just dropped. Her metaphor of the Chinese state as an API is inspired. I did a great interview with @AngelaZhangHK and Alex Yang about a related idea: China as platform state. L*nk 👇
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This piece by @mattsheehan88, about changing state and public attitudes in China about AI and jobs, is one of the year's must-reads so far.
I wrote about the biggest change in 🇨🇳 AI policy over the past year: growing worry about AI's impact on jobs. Covers: - the surprising spark that ignited the shift - different ministries competing to lead on AI - China's ~5 part plan for dealing w/ labor impacts Link below!
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This week on the Trivium China Podcast, @triviumchina co-founder @andrewpolk81 is joined by @kendraschaefer and @coryjcombs to explain China's AI+ initiative. Fascinating stuff!! Link below.
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Did you know the Chinese gov publishes an official list of public-facing generative AI tools operating in China? I spent the last six months cataloging and analyzing all 3,739 of them. Here are my early findings – and my data set. Exec sum in thread. 1/9 triviumchina.com/research/se…
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State-affiliated entities hold approximately 22% of the generative AI licenses issued in China, but China’s big telecoms – notably China Mobile – appear to be the only central state-owned enterprises doing genuinely innovative generative AI development. 8/9
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No surprise here: Foreign companies have only registered 0.5% of generative AI algorithms in China, and none of those are bleeding edge. Geopolitics and China's internet regulations are significantly dampening foreign involvement. 9/9
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China's latest round of controls on mineral exports bring our hit rate to six out of the nine @coryjcombs predicted back in March:
Cool paper alert: @coryjcombs takes a stab at predicting which critical minerals are most at risk of export controls by China, and outlines the framework he developed to make those determinations. Input on the framework very welcome! triviumchina.com/research/ga…
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Paul Triolo @pstAsiatech & Kendra Schaefer @kendraschaefer on #China's #ArtificialIntelligence sector, how developments are driving U.S.-China #technology competition and intersect with critical policy choices around technologies that support AI ecosystems bit.ly/3VLL8qL
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Great working with @kendraschaefer on this complex and important topic! Had to leave a lot out, so much happening in this space... China’s Generative AI Ecosystem in 2024: Rising Investment and Expectations | The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) nbr.org/publication/chinas-g…
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Beijing has made leading-edge, highly-efficient manufacturing capabilities a top policy priority. In this analysis, @triviumchina experts @kendraschaefer and @coryjcombs provide an in-depth overview of this emerging effort, dubbed “new industrialization.”

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