Fred Pelard's China AI Digest

China AI Digest = a weekly English-language summary of the most important AI discussions from China’s top Mandarin-language podcasts - making the Chinese AI conversation accessible to a global audience. Fred Pelard = business strategist, executive AI trainer, host of the China AI Digest podcast. Each week Fred curates, edits, and narrates the most important AI discussions from China’s top Mandarin-language podcasts into a single 30-minute English-language episode. See more on http://www.fredpelard.com/aipods

Fred Pelard's China AI Digest is a business podcast hosted by Fred Pelard, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Fred Pelard hosts Fred Pelard's China AI Digest, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  China AI Digest (Aug 16, 2026)

  Aug 16, 202625 min

  Three podcasts, one lesson: being right isn't enough — you must survive being right. AI Weekly Talk dissects the collapse of Situational Awareness: Leopold Aschenbrenner up 439% at $45bn, then down 67% in July as 4x leverage forced a fire sale of SK Hynix and CoreWeave to Citadel. Zhang Xiaoyun spends four hours with Nvidia research VP Ming-Yu Liu on Cosmos 3, world foundation models, Sun Tzu, and Jensen Huang's mandate — "take it to Cosmos 97." What's Next unpacks MIT's "cognitive debt" EEG study and Wharton's guardrail trial, where free-ChatGPT students scored 20% lower on the exam.

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  China AI Digest (Aug 9, 2026)

  Aug 9, 202627 min

  Three podcasts, one stack: the person, the plumbing, and the perimeter. What's Next hears Jia Yangqing — author of Caffe, who sold Lepton AI to Nvidia and has just launched Intent Lab — ask why one smart agent still isn't a team, and why AI can complete a task but never be trusted with it. Valley 101 meets SGLang founder Sheng Ying, ex-xAI inference lead and now RadixArk CEO, on why infrastructure is the product and idle GPUs are the real cost. And ChinaTalk's Adam Chan explains how the FCC quietly added robots — vacuums included — to its covered list, with a 65% domestic-content test.

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  China AI Digest (Aug 2, 2026)

  Aug 1, 202626 min

  Three podcasts, one question: what do you hand to the machine, and what do you keep? Zhang Xiaoyun spends an hour and forty minutes with Tsinghua's Liu Ziming — first author of the KAN paper, just back from MIT — on China's neo-lab frenzy: product-less research labs raising at hundreds of millions of dollars, with world models and AutoResearch (AI for AI) soaking up the capital. AI Weekly Talk turns one year old and publishes a letter to its "shareholders", arguing the "buy the bottleneck" trade is approaching its end — and that waiting is also a kind of action. Dafang Says AI+ maps four ways the product manager's job is being rebuilt: capability becomes command, scenarios become skills, tasks become agents, experience becomes an asset.

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  China AI Digest (Jul 26, 2026)

  Jul 26, 202626 min

  Three podcasts, one coming-of-age: AI gets a financial adviser, a writing tutor, and pocket money. AI Weekly Talk walks the robot-crowded halls of WAIC Shanghai and asks the three questions that kill FOMO: good tech ≠ good business ≠ good company ≠ good price. Valley 101 meets the "content engineers" — ex-journalists like Tony Lin and NBCUniversal's Bianca Consunji who write the taste that makes models feel human. What's Next charts agent payments' U-turn: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, OpenAI and Google all built agent wallets within six months, with Clink as the ramp between protocol highways.

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  China AI Digest (Jul 19, 2026)

  Jul 18, 202626 min

  Three podcasts, one gap between the model and the world. Hardhacker asks why Palantir's once-mocked Forward Deployed Engineer is now AI's hottest job — OpenAI and Anthropic building deployment armies, senior packages clearing $700K — because 95% of enterprise pilots die in the last kilometre. Zhang Xiaoyun spends four hours with Physical Intelligence's Kay Ke, mapping the robotics jianghu and Pi's π0→π0.7 path to a generalist robot brain. And ChinaTalk's Kevin Xu and Matt Sheehan game out Beijing's Mythos moment: a state-led frontier model, weight export controls on the table, and a form already waiting.

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