Silicon Valley 101

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Do you know that SK Hynix was once close to being sold to Micron?

Now it sits at the center of the AI boom.

Our latest video traces its wild rise — from chaebol politics and memory crashes to the HBM bet that made it indispensable to AI.

Watch here:
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The Next AI Startup Boom Could Be in Data
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China’s Young AI Researchers Are Surprising Silicon Valley
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We talked about:
• Anthropic’s work on global workspace
• chain of thoughts vs internal thinking
• sparse autoencoders and causal abstraction
• Golden Gate Claude
• user modeling and strange model behavior
• hallucinations, edge cases, and personality

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AI models are more capable, but we still don’t know how they think.
@itsyiwenlu sat down with Stanford researcher @aryaman2020 to break down the fast-moving field of AI interpretability.

Watch the full episode on our channel here: https://t.co/ePE3USkTcO

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What Makes DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng So Unusual?
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https://t.co/EzN0X3kSBZ

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How Have Open-Weight Models Changed AI?

Open-weight models like Kimi K3 are getting plenty of attention, but Xing Meng found a surprising divide in Silicon Valley.

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Why ByteDance Would Rather Fall Behind Than Distill Frontier Models?
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We talked about:
• culture and personality of Chinese AI labs
• why developers are switching to open source
• ByteDance and the distillation debate
• China’s edge in consumer AI, robotics and video
• AI agents, data and AI for science

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How much does Silicon Valley actually care about China’s latest AI models?
@Valley101_Qian @itsyiwenlu at @Valley101en sat down with Xing Meng of @5YCapital during his trip to the Bay Area for a deep dive into China’s AI ecosystem.
https://t.co/vafH27gIlv