Rita Liao

Feb 19, 2025 | wearedigitaldiplomacy.substack.com | Luiza Jarovsky |Rita Liao

What’s the fuss about DeepSeek? Why is Trump positive? How has the tech and AI community reacted, after they freaked out? What GenZ got to do with DeepSeek? Everybody seems to have an opinion on DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence app that took the world by storm, topping downloads on the app stores. It’s China’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and AI platforms developed by American tech giants.

Dec 10, 2024 | chinatalk.media | Rita Liao

The following is a guest column from ,a longtime reporter formerly at TechCrunch. Recently, I met a Chinese entrepreneur pitching his AI startup to TechCrunch. As the only writer focused on China at the site for five years, I’ve been the go-to for all China-related stories.

Oct 28, 2024 | leapfrogs.substack.com | Rita Liao

I host Leapfrog, a podcast about global entrepreneurs outside the American-centric bubble, and I sometimes write a few things about China. Chinese founders seeking Western customers and capital have been in limbo in recent years as geopolitical tensions rise. Now new measures from the US government threaten to soon make their journey to the West even more precarious, but they will also provide the much-needed direction on how “China-shedding” needs to play out.

Sep 25, 2024 | gadgetsnews.link | Rita Liao

Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’ IT総合 2024.09.25The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the techリンク元

Sep 25, 2024 | techcrunch.com | Rita Liao

The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn't materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead enabled people to speculate on a new asset class. A big hurdle to realizing blockchain's full potential, web3 proponents argue, is that decentralized services are incredibly hard to build.