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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 14:44 Steven Sinofsky And so before something like this, this is, you know, one of these real ones from like, Beijing, Marco.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 39:09 Steven Sinofsky Beijing knows what's going on in Tokyo, knows what's going on in Seoul, is paying attention to Singapore, and they really are keyed in, and I, when I was living in China, that was the biggest thing I saw, which was, you know, China was…
- ▶ 55:58 Dan Wang So it wasn't the U.S. or Beijing that did something about this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:11 Dan Wang Um, back to the U.S. from Taiwan, and his assessment is that there's always a lot of risks out there, but, um, in his view, the, um, their, uh, conflict between Beijing and Taipei is not imminent and not inevitable, and that's kind of my… 5 times in the scene
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 14:21 Qasar Younis So I think, you know, you, we talk often about processes and bureaucracies, you know, the bureaucracy is not going to beat Beijing, right?
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 5:49 J.D. Vance In fact, one of Beijing's state-owned firms built more commercial ships just last year than all of America has produced since the end of World War II.
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
How to use DeepSeek safely
- ▶ 8:23 AI Security Researcher We don't know what we don't know about what are the other topics or, um, you know, are there other areas where Beijing is putting their thumb on the scale a little more delicately?
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 1:46 Chris Schroeder At one level, it sounds like I'm, I'm spread too thin, but I think one of the big theses that I have learned in this traveling is that which is happening among emerging markets among themselves, uh, is more shared in many cases than their…
- ▶ 9:33 Connie Chan And that difference is far less than the difference of say Beijing and like a fourth tier city.
- ▶ 20:10 Connie Chan By literally just talking to waiters and waitresses and asking them, those who were working in Beijing, but their family was elsewhere, what kind of apps and services were they using? 2 times in the scene
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
Explaining AI
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Shum Ah, we actually invented in our research lab in Beijing by my students, ah, using 152 layers of neural networks.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 9:56 Connie Chan But now in China, my teacher doesn't have to live in Beijing, they don't have to live in Shanghai, they can live anywhere in the country.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 7:35 Graham Allison There's a bridge in China called the Sanyan Bridge in Beijing.
- ▶ 23:44 Graham Allison In a case in which you have a Thucydidean dynamic in which basically, from the, from, from Beijing's point of view, they're wondering, what the hell are you even doing on this peninsula?
a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- ▶ 0:45 Sonal Chokshi Did you, you know, set up in Beijing? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Evan Osnos But what, what it has, and this is, is that in its own odd way, immigrant, it's, it's so large that it almost is like an immigrant destination, because if you're in Beijing or Shanghai, they're not coming from County Cork, they're coming…
- ▶ 14:00 Evan Osnos So in practical terms, if you're sitting in Beijing or Shanghai right now, you're not able to get on a half a dozen information sources, news sources, data sources that you could have three years ago.
- ▶ 17:05 Evan Osnos WeChat's obviously this very powerful communications platform, but the, I think the thing that people sometimes don't appreciate unless they're in Beijing or Shanghai is that it's actually a whole ecosystem in which you can live.
- ▶ 26:09 Evan Osnos It was the foreigners who were complaining about the air quality in Beijing and Shanghai and other big cities, and today it's the Chinese who are complaining about it, and environmentalism has often been the front edge of a deeper change… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 9:29 Clay Shirky It also has to implement an enormous number of controls that Beijing demands over 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 Clay Shirky On top of that, there is the uppercase D, Chinese dream, which is a, ah, a motto promulgated by, by Beijing under, under Xi Jinping under the current administration, which wants to harness that sense of pride and entrepreneurial activity 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:13 Clay Shirky It's the fact that the tier one cities here, the Tianjin, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, um, are there, they are the size of countries.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 23:35 Connie Chan Um, the second largest is in Beijing, and it's just because there's been massive urbanization happening in China, and so the kinds of traffic that you have to deal with now when you're in these cities is so much more painful than what you… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 20:41 Connie Chan It hits a different type of city, whereas WeChat is very common in Beijing, Shanghai, tier one cities.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 28:07 Chris Schroeder At which you say, there are things at the end of the day, they'll move very, very quickly, and maybe they'll come from Silicon Valley, maybe someday they'll come from Beijing, maybe someday they'll come from Tehran, but once they take off,…
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 44:05 Marc Andreessen I mean, just these, these crazy kind of out of control, uh, you know, food supply chain, energy supply chain things that clearly lead to, you know, just massive, I mean, Beijing is already drowning in smog, right?
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 2:58 Connie Chan Um, Evernote has, has found a really good team in Beijing, um, and I think they really benefited from having a good local partner.
- ▶ 15:59 Connie Chan Um, so for example, a lot of people talk about Jingdong because they can do same-day delivery with a, within a handful of hours, sometimes as quick as four hours, within a large city like Beijing. 2 times in the scene
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China
- ▶ 4:32 Connie Chan Live.me's team is largely based in Beijing.
A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China
- ▶ 1:22 Connie Chan To give you a sense of China's density, Beijing has over twenty three million residents.