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Grace Shao

Hong Kong, New York
As seen in: MSN, USA Today, Aol, CNBC, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance Canada, Yahoo Finance Singapore, Fortune, South China Morning Post and
Covers:  AI, Tech, Corporate Governance, Energy, Climate
Doesn't Cover: Culture, Lifestyle, Pop Culture
writing, analyzing, podcasting about the business of AI and tech with a focus on APAC | AI Proem on Substack | Differentiated Understanding

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Grace has been published in CNBC, S&P Global Market Intelligence, the Diplomat, Diplomat Risk Intelligence, Fortune, FT Chinese, Yahoo Finance, South China Morning Post, USA Today, Asia Times, NBC News and more.

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The Age of Solar Decoupling: China and the West

The Age of Solar Decoupling: China and the West

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Physical AI hype, tech tourism and the wearbles' wait for their iPhone moment

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By Grace Shao
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A few things have been top of mind lately. They aren’t perfectly connected on the surface, but bear with me, because I think they’re the same story told from a few different angles. For years, on Western social media, China seemed like an exotic (dangerous) location, and then the COVID lockdown happened, which obviously made everything worse.
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Alibaba vs. Tencent's battle to become the most successful internet to AI company

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By Grace Shao
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AI Big Tech Takeaways from recent earnings, the AI strategies becoming more defined Hi all, I recently received really valuable feedback from a reader. He said he felt I was writing for an audience that already knew the names and the technology, not for people who want to learn about them. I always try to provide context and nuance, so apologies if that hasn’t been coming through lately. So let’s go back to our bread and butter: understanding Chinese big tech strategy.
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The reasons to open-source and the future of AI bootstrapping with Tiezhen Wang

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By Grace Shao
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Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript The reasons to open-source and the future of AI bootstrapping with Tiezhen Wang data autonomy, open source incentives, research vs commercialization, open models as sustainable business Joining me today is Tiezhen Wang (Tom), formerly of Hugging Face, where he worked with researchers in China, Australia, South Korea, Japan and across APAC, to help make open-source models more discoverable, usable, and...
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