Jeffrey Ding

Washington, D.C., United States

Assistant Professor at George Washington University @GWtweets | technology and int'l politics | newsletter on China's AI landscape: https://t.co/ciqWZF1jiV

Articles

ChinAI #308: Runaway Tech Capital AI vs. Socialist Open-Source AI?

1 week ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…laughter is carbonated holiness — Anne Lamott…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).
ChinAI #307: Around the Horn (19th edition)

2 weeks ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…DOGE has shut down the Wilson Center. One of the most rewarding parts of my career has been teaching sessions on China’s AI development at the Wilson Center AI labs, which provided nonpartisan educational programs on emerging technology to mid- to senior-level Congressional and Executive Branch staff. I was fortunate to start working with the Wilson Center AI labs in 2018 back when the program was just starting up.
ChinAI #306: Yes Labels for AI-generated Content? A Test of 23 Chinese Platforms

3 weeks ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…blooming things are blooming…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors). Context: The rise of AI-generated misinformation on Chinese platforms has prompted calls for stronger regulations.
ChinAI #305: Computing Power Shifts in the AI Inference Era

1 month ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…you are still worthy even if you don’t produce…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors). Context: In recent months, the NVIDIA H20 chip — once neglected by Chinese tech companies — has become a hot commodity.
ChinAI #304: Year 7 of ChinAI

1 month ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…ChinAI is now seven years old, which means it should be developing a solid sense of time, overcoming some fears from its younger days, and becoming more sensitive to the feelings of others (we’re still working on that last one). *A special note of thanks to the paying subscribers who have financially supported this work over the years. …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
ChinAI #303: Can Chinese AI chips even run DeepSeek?

1 month ago | chinai.substack.com | Zeyi Yang |Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…if you’re in Brussels and looking for something to do this Thursday night, come out to my book talk!…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).
ChinAI #302: China AI Talent Check-in

1 month ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…ChinAI doesn’t exist without international education programs like the Critical Language Scholarship and the Fulbright. The CLS was the first study abroad program I applied for as a University of Iowa student, and it opened the door to other study and research abroad experiences through programs like the Boren Scholarship.
Making Chinese AI work for the US

1 month ago | exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Jeffrey Ding

I got together with to reframe the “US vs China” AI narrative. We speak about AI diffusion, the US ‘containment’ policies and what the US strategy should be. Thanks all for joining us live – we’ll do one of these every Friday morning-time ET. Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Exponential View to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition

1 month ago | foreignaffairs.com | Jeffrey Ding |G. John Ikenberry

Ding explores how technological revolutions shape the rise and decline of great powers. Some states are better at taking advantage of breakthroughs than others. The United Kingdom did it in the First Industrial Revolution, in the eighteenth century. The United States pulled it off in the Second Industrial Revolution, in the nineteenth century, and again in the twentieth, leaping ahead of Japan in the information revolution.
ChinAI #301: Testing 18 third-party deployers of DeepSeek

1 month ago | chinai.substack.com | Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where…“Did everyone sever their balls in the elevator this morning?”…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).