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Kevin Xu

@kevinsxu

Building/Investing @ Interconnected Capital; Writing @interconnect_ed; ex. GitHub, PingCAP, Obama White House/Commerce Dept; hockey fan

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linkhttps://interconnect.substack.com/ calendar_today23-03-2009 21:25:25

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BYD’s smart driving “God’s Eye” system includes lidar, radar, ultrasonics and still costs less than Tesla’s camera-only FSD. Really interesting report from Reuters Business: reuters.com/business/autos…

BYD’s smart driving “God’s Eye” system includes lidar, radar, ultrasonics and still costs less than Tesla’s camera-only FSD. 

Really interesting report from <a href="/ReutersBiz/">Reuters Business</a>: reuters.com/business/autos…
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Lepton is a smart, defensive move to maintain NVDA install base and fat margins vs the threat of every CSP building their own ASICs It'll be a delicate dance between Lepton and the neoclouds, because neoclouds are NVDA's best customers, not price sensitive, fueled by an eager

Lepton is a smart, defensive move to maintain NVDA install base and fat margins vs the threat of every CSP building their own ASICs

It'll be a delicate dance between Lepton and the neoclouds, because neoclouds are NVDA's best customers, not price sensitive, fueled by an eager
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This addendum post is more important than Trump's initial post on the "China deal" My best-effort neutral analytical interpretation: - export controlled goods are all on the table to be negotiated - China (obviously) wants semiconductor manufacturing equipment, may be some

This addendum post is more important than Trump's initial post on the "China deal"

My best-effort neutral analytical interpretation:

- export controlled goods are all on the table to be negotiated
- China (obviously) wants semiconductor manufacturing equipment, may be some
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Oracle now counts both TikTok and Temu as large cloud customers OCI is quickly becoming the largest "Chinese Cloud" in America 🙃

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There aren't that many US alternatives either You'd be hard pressed to build an "American rare earths basket" There's MP Materials $MP, Energy Fuels $UUUU, any others?

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China spent 25 years failing to build a globally competitive domestic car industry through hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies and forced partnerships. Then they tried something radical. In 2018, they invited Tesla to build a wholly-owned factory in Shanghai. No joint

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Cursor is valued at 9.9 billion by the private market Gitlab is valued at less than 7 billion by the public market Which side of the market is right?

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When Dylan Patel came on the podcast last fall, he suggested China could centralize compute to leap ahead in the AI race. Arthur Kroeber doesn't think this is a possibility. The Chinese tech giants (Alibaba, Huawei, ByteDance, Xaiomi) have proved their merit through success on

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Amazing indeed, and yet incomplete Huawei has a cloud region in Egypt that runs an in-house Arabic LLM built on Pangu

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"18A will be Intel's first process technology in years that will compete head-to-head with TSMC's leading-edge technology when both enter mass production in the second half of this year."