life update vlog from april 1st to may 1st:
- came to SF and caught up with ppl from pixar, higgsfield, bytedance, comfyui and [redacted]
- spent 2 weeks in LA briefly and saw how big production studios use AI in their workflows
- finalized our new office space in sf (40,000 sqft!). rn we don’t even know what to make of the space yet (message us if you have ideas).
- successfully avoided raising venture capital as much as possible (W)
- made sure to hit the gym every single day (bulking is so damn hard)
main pivot has been we cancelled the LA AI Film Festival and are now planning a big initiative that we’d be announcing soon.
this would be a project that’d work between our sf, bangalore and tokyo office which is super exciting
hey siri, play life is a highway from the movie “Cars”
life is GOOD and TOUGH — i couldn’t for anything better
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Ganesh Velu retweeted
🚨 SERIOUS COMPLAINT 🚨
I am formally and angrily calling out the Beijing Municipal Government and ByteDance – specifically their construction site at Lanjing Lijia.
At 2 AM on a weekend, excavators are working nonstop. The site is barely 200–300 meters from my home.
How are people supposed to sleep?
I filed a complaint with 12345 before. Their official response was:
“This is a key municipal infrastructure project. Legal working hours are 6 AM – 10 PM, including weekends and public holidays (May Day, etc.).”
That already made me furious.
But now – weekend, 2 AM – they’re digging like it’s noon. Totally unacceptable.
I recorded a video and posted it on domestic social media.
Then Xiaohongshu banned my account – my video is invisible to others.
That tells me one thing: the Beijing government saw my post. They chose to silence me instead of fixing the problem.
As of now, my 12345 complaint is still unanswered – zero response.
I never wanted to take extreme measures. But you leave me no choice.
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#Beijing #ByteDance #NoisePollution #SilencingCitizens #LanjingLijia #12345 #RightToSleep
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RT @BytePlusGlobal: ByteDance Coding Plan DeepSeek V4, only $0.3 daily, over 80% cheaper than standard APIs with equal coding quality
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RT @BytePlusGlobal: ByteDance Coding Plan DeepSeek V4, only $0.3 daily, over 80% cheaper than standard APIs with equal coding quality
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This coding plan from ByteDance offers significant cost savings and high quality coding compared to standard APIs
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RT @BytePlusGlobal: ByteDance Coding Plan DeepSeek V4, only $0.3 daily, over 80% cheaper than standard APIs with equal coding quality
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😂😂now you understood. See how china is doing with Alibana Qwem, Bytedance, Tencent, Baidu etc . The problem is we are a dependent nation and then we say America is stupid and now one full stop all our companies are in fix banking, telecom, service sector. Play religion religion
The US has suspended access to its most advanced AI models for every foreign national on earth - overnight, without notice.
For a country of India’s civilisational weight and geostrategic position, with its own unique security challenges, there is simply no alternative to building sovereign AI capability.
This moment makes that clearer than any policy argument ever could.
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理想（LI）AI新章6月15日技術発表会PV
先日の重慶フォーラムで
自動車関係者から「AIじゃない、利益だ」の提言ｗ
ようやく今の状態が持続不可能と分かってきたようだ
とは言えByteDanceも不気味だし
Liは先日の株主説明会で
名指しせずも華為（Huawei）参入拡大で
節目が変わったと認めた
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理想（Li）CVPR 2026で12本の論文採択
6月15日の発表会は
これを分かりやすく説明してくれるかなｗ
chinacase.substack.com/p/li-…
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体感として大きく差が出るのは使用してるAIモデルで、グロ版はGemini/ChatGPT、大陸版は千问（Alibaba）/豆包（ByteDance）/DeepSeek/智谱（清華大学系スタートアップ）
大陸版はモデルが豊富だけど、引用元のように日本語性能という点では厳しい点がある。
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JPMorgan: China AI race pivots from model count to enterprise value
JPMorgan's China AI outlook: enterprise value, not model count, now drives the race — ByteDance Doubao charges up to 500 yuan/month.
nationpress.com/sciencetech/…
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RT @BytePlusGlobal: ByteDance Coding Plan DeepSeek V4, only $0.3 daily, over 80% cheaper than standard APIs with equal coding quality.
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RT @BytePlusGlobal: ByteDance Coding Plan DeepSeek V4, only $0.3 daily, over 80% cheaper than standard APIs with equal coding quality
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Well the reason why Tiktok was unbanned was because Bytedance sold Tiktok to the US Government. This was reported on a ton back in January. techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/he…
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