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How the Creative Industry is Adopting AI with Miora, Tencent’s Creative Agent (opens the original)
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This episode was a special collaboration project with Tencent’s Behind the Penguin podcast. AI Proem remains editorially independent but is open to collaborating with companies and individuals if that means they can bring better resources/ guests/ insights to the AI Proem audience. I speak to Serrino Liu, the AI Product Expert at Miora, Tencent. He is responsible for product innovation across film, 3D, and the interactive formats built on top of them, bringing AI agents into real content-creatio
Trump-Xi Meeting, China’s Four-Pronged AI Strategy, Path to US-China AI Cooperation with Kristy Loke (opens the original)
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In this episode, I speak with , an AI governance researcher focused on US-China relations, about what the latest Trump-Xi meeting could mean for AI governance, safety, and cooperation between the two leading AI powers. We discuss the possibility of an incident reporting mechanism for malicious AI-enabled cyber activity, the growing risks around frontier models, and whether the US and China may have more shared interests than the current competition narrative suggests.One part of our conversation
Former DeepMind Eng turned Founder: Computer Agents and Token Economics with Simular AI Ang Li (opens the original)
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In this episode, I speak with Ang Li, co-founder and CEO of Simular AI , about the rise of computer use agents and his vision for computers that can increasingly do work on behalf of humans. We discuss why computer use matters beyond the current wave of API-based agents, particularly for the vast amount of enterprise work still carried out through legacy desktop software that was never designed to be accessed programmatically. We explore where these agents could have the most immediate impact, f
Who is actually capturing the value from China’s open weights? (opens the original)
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Sorry for being AWOL. I was on the road and was supposed to be in New York last week for meetings with some journos and investors, and to co-host a lovely drinks event with the FUNDA team and Collyer Bridge. BUT I had a bit of a family emergency and couldn’t make it out there, so I’m sorry to the readers and contacts I said I’d meet up with.But before that, I did get to catch the last week of summer in the PNW, touched a lot of grass, and got in a lot of steps. Speaking of summer, Chinese labs p
DeepSeek’s fundraising, unique Chinese market ticks, and what’s ahead with The Information (opens the original)
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Hello everyone, I've been on the road, so I'll be delaying this week’s written post and next week’s podcast episode. Apologies in advance. In this episode, I’m joined by Asia Bureau Chief Jing Yang and Senior Reporter Juro Osawa from The Information to unpack DeepSeek’s surprising shift toward external capital, its unique investor structure, and what its rapid revenue growth reveals about the economics of AI. We also explore why China’s AI labs remain fiercely competitive despite a far smaller c
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