Mike Bai

Hardware Robotics COO, Deeptech investor

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@AlpacaAurelius 5

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@shenyshawn22 Shenzhen is a city of hustlers trying to make it. Naturally there will be plenty of middlemen offering value where they can to make things happen

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@thibault_mthh Critical

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@MrBuckBuckNBA Like him even more now

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@Karim_RC WalllE!

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@antoinemarcel I wonder how you got all your FCC and other compliance documentation so early

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@ruima Unfortunately American students arent interested in going to China at that scale - even when China gives everyone scholarships

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@mrpeasy hey team - im evaluating the software for a robotics company. is there a way to configure a warehouse consolidation point before ocean transit? that would add additional uniform lead time to the procurement of individual items?

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

I remember this type of automated cargo aircraft from 2017!

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.
https://t.co/wDrLTOHBL5

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

Check out my latest article: The Factory Decision Nobody Tells Hardware Founders They’re Making https://t.co/pmvw78bx0v via @LinkedIn

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@Saul_Sadka the price is coming down much faster than people anticipated. I just helped a friend make a custom 23 carat tennis bracelet (40 stones, each 0.56 carats) for 5k USD.

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@VidyacharanGV @mikekalilmfg @personaaiinc Correct. He’s cofounder/CTO of Persona now.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I think here’s an interesting tension between many academics’ insistence that “AI can’t think” and the discovery that AI has demolished traditional methods for evaluating learning and thinking.

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@brendahnjiru Trying to help Pepper actually find a use case after 10 years?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.

This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.

Read this part:

"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."

Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏

Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.

Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.

Truth matters.

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

@guimarin If only…

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

Much of the current LLM B2B SaaS startups will be gobbled up. It’s highly uncertain what are products and what are just features

[Jon Stokes @jon_stokes]

Chamath has some terrible takes, but this one is undoubtedly correct. If I were still grinding out newsletters, a big one I'd want to write is about how big a signal it is that Anthropic & OpenAI have not gone on an acquisition spree for vertical-specific SaaS.

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

And while moving on the high speed train. Caltrain has a lot to be desired

[Susan Zhang @suchenzang]

it's crazy how there's always perfect cell signal 5+ floors underground in metro stations in China when i can't even get through the mission in SF without losing signal every time

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

Sounds about right

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The core argument of my latest article "There is no AI race" was that the "AI race" between the US and China is a manufactured narrative concocted by US tech companies to serve their corporate interests and to regulatory capture the US government (which is, over the medium/long term, against both US and the world's interests).

This 👇 is pretty much the smoking gun.

Article here: https://t.co/48ifTX1YsD

[Mike Bai @realMikeBai]

If only these palm trees in the Guangzhou south train station were real!