Jeff Xiong

AI Cures a Poor County
Why the Weakest Link Needs Intelligence Most
Jun 8 • Jeff Xiong
Peasants' AI
Who selects the knowledge base decides whom the algorithm serves
Jun 4 • Jeff Xiong

May 2026

Cooling the Machine
China's Quest to Reconcile AI and Nature
May 27 • Jeff Xiong
Factory-Free Manufacturing
A Mountain County's Bet on AI Drama
May 19 • Jeff Xiong
Data Hunger
How Embodied AI Turns Manufacturing Scale into a Strategic Asset
May 17 • Jeff Xiong
Whale Brothers
When an American Developer Found His People in China’s AI Community
May 11 • Jeff Xiong
The Robot Next Door
Inside China's Fully Automated AI Social Media Machine
May 1 • Jeff Xiong

April 2026

The Model That Doesn't Need Permission
How a Chinese AI model caught up with Claude Opus — and what it means for the rest of the world
Apr 22 • Jeff Xiong
A Circuit Named Bandung
Building AI Tools for the South, by the South
Apr 19 • Jeff Xiong

March 2026

The Democratisation of AI
China’s Alternative Path
Mar 27 • Jeff Xiong
Knowledge Unbound
A Response to Das and Borhan on AI and Labor
Mar 16 • Jeff Xiong
Raising Claws
Inside China's Race to Turn an Open-Source AI Agent into a Mass Movement
Mar 10 • Jeff Xiong
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