Outbound travelers from China during Golden Week holidays doubled! Wait, China was in lockdown last year and the number of outbound tourists was next to zero.. That pretty much says how bad the recovery is. 🥶

The US #sanctions against #Huawei didn’t make it fall. Instead, it is expanding. Take this new #chip, #IoT research campus in Shanghai as an example: Huawei is constructing >100 buildings there and will house 35k engineers. Total floor space is ~2mln sq meters, or 280 soccer fields put together.

China's dived into global LLM wars
AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee's 1982 grad school applcn to Carnegie Mellon said he wants to study AI to help understand humans better. That time here, he says & 01.ai 's Ist product is out, an open-source LLM Yi-B34 that outranks others lnkd.in/gKPw26BS @bloomberg.com
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Late autumn in #Beijing.

China’s millions of Communist Party cadres were warned to stay away from investing in private equity to avoid ownership situations that can breed corruption. is.gd/Y4I0AW What kind of communists get to be that rich?!

A 27-year-old Stanford alum is helping Google & Microsoft 's AI work better for a billion users. Manu Chopra's Karya hires rural workers to bring Indian datasets that can train AI models for chatbots, searchbots & AI assistants
Via @bloomberg.com

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Your iPhone is probably made by Foxconn.

Nintendo Switch? Foxconn.

Kindle? Foxconn.

And the $222 billion electronics giant is now betting it can build EVs too. Read The Big Take ⬇️

China’s 3Q GDP beats est., but the stocks market continued to slide. It’s actually have been trading well below the level when 3 yrs of strict Covid measures were removed in Dec. 2022.

Tim Cook posted a photo on Chinese social media Weibo taken by iPhone 15 Pro Max, but the post got flooded by many negative comments.

An Israeli diplomat was brutally attacked by a man in downtown Beijing today. The police has yet announced identify of the knife-wielding attacker. The injured was send to hospital with help of locals and is in stable condition.

Free #cybersecurity lesson on #Beijing subway.

Drone maker DJI’s founder is a hermit. Yet he has built an extravagant headquarters in Shenzhen that every corner of the building is a powerful show.