Caiwei Chen

@CaiweiC

thinking and writing about tech, internet, art, ai, and more. reporter @techreview. your favorite China person's favorite China person

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Joined May 2017

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Caiwei Chen@CaiweiC · Jun 5

Yes, I have a piece out on China’s AI agent boom too! It’s a story still unfolding—but we're tracking ambitious startups like @genspark_ai and @flowith_ai following @ManusAI_HQ’s global playbook, plus the wave of frantic copycats popping up at home. technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/111…

CaiweiC's tweet card. A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

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Caiwei Chen@CaiweiC · Jul 16

my nephew is viral

mmung bean da cat@Mungbeanster · Jul 16

yesterday marks the one month anniversary of mung bean coming home with us! he’s honestly just the sweetest, cutest, most perfect boy ever & he’s made us so soo happy picture is of when we first met him at the shelter and he stole our hearts

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Kyle Chan@kyleichan · Jul 3

Great interactive map showing where China’s local governments are providing “compute vouchers” 算力券 to local AI developers to access compute resources for model training and applications. From @RebeccaArcesati & team at MERICS: merics.org/de/china-tech-…

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Caiwei Chen@CaiweiC · Jun 17

AI can get very persuasive these days, but what happens in a future where AI agents negotiate with each other? New research from @jiaxin_pei et al showed that when your agent sucks, you could lose money, and this could lead to a new kind of digital gap technologyreview.com/2025/06/17/111…

CaiweiC's tweet card. New research shows that in AI-to-AI price negotiations, weaker models often lose out—costing users real money and raising concerns about growing digital inequality.

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Kyle Chan@kyleichan · Jun 10

Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei in a new interview with People’s Daily (my translation): Huawei is but one of China’s many semiconductor firms. The US exaggerates Huawei’s achievements. Huawei still isn’t that impressive… Our single chips are still a generation behind the US. We use…

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Caiwei Chen@CaiweiC · Jun 6

Per Chinese media Hong Kong University of Technology has already accepted two Harvard transfers, it is the first university that openly said that they would unconditionally accept any international student at Harvard having visa issues

CaiweiC's tweet image. Per Chinese media Hong Kong University of Technology has already accepted two Harvard transfers, it is the first university that openly said that they would unconditionally accept any international student at Harvard having visa issues

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Caiwei Chen@CaiweiC · Jun 3

Apparently an AGI themed craft beer place is opening in Zhongguancun, Beijing’s tech district. Allegedly it’s sponsored by Zhipu and each type of beer is named after an AI startup on the scene… what would it take for the ai news heads to include this in their roundup tomorrow

CaiweiC's tweet image. Apparently an AGI themed craft beer place is opening in Zhongguancun, Beijing’s tech district. Allegedly it’s sponsored by Zhipu and each type of beer is named after an AI startup on the scene… what would it take for the ai news heads to include this in their roundup tomorrow

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