What is StepFun?
The Shanghai-based AI firm is one of China’s ‘AI tigers,’ with models that can process videos and images as well as text.
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A Mar-a-Lago Accord Could Benefit China
Any deal to strengthen China's currency could help make Chinese people feel richer and ease trade tensions with other nations.
The Empire State’s Silicon Dream
Plus, a look at another Chinese “AI tiger”, StepFun.
Outrunning China — But in What Direction?
There was plenty of consensus that the U.S. needs to keep ahead of China at this week’s big tech and defense industry conference in Washington...
Kyle Chan on What We Need to Know About China’s Industrial Policy
The researcher talks about the state of the trade war, how the U.S. and others should deal with China’s growing dominance in several advanced industries,...
China’s Aging Migrant Workforce
Some 300 million Chinese workers are facing a more precarious future amid the country’s economic transition.
Will Trump Tip the AI Race in China’s Favor?
Over recent decades Chinese online platforms and social media companies rapidly caught up with, and then surpassed, their U.S. peers. The same is likely to...
The Hunt for an Heir
The entrepreneurs at the forefront of China’s economic emergence in the 1980s and '90s are retiring. Who will succeed them?
Fathers and Sons
Xi Jinping disappointed Chinese Communist Party reformers who thought he would be more like his father. In this excerpt from his new biography of Xi...
Xi Zhongxun and the making of Xi Jinping
Plus, a generation of Chinese entrepreneurs are nearing retirement. Who will succeed them?
Patrick McGee on How China Captured Apple
The journalist argues that Apple has played a major role in China's ascent as a technological power, but can’t meaningfully move its operations anywhere else...
Hidden Treasures
The battle for rare earths has reached the abyss. China thinks it can win there too, as it out-maneuvers the U.S. and New Zealand in...