AI Proem Podcast

Every episode, I bring in a guest with a unique point of view on a critical matter, phenomenon, or business trend—someone who can help us see things differently. aiproem.substack.com

AI Proem Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 40 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.

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  Where does Europe fit in the so-called China-US AI race?

  Jun 8, 20261h 10mS0

  <p>Joining me today is Alex Lu, who offers a unique perspective. Alex works at the intersection of three very different AI worlds: China, Europe, and enterprise transformation. Having spent more than a decade in France and now advising European companies on AI adoption (often Chinese models), he offers a perspective that is often missing from the broader AI conversation, which is typically framed as a competition between the United States and China.</p><p>In this conversation, we explore how European companies are actually approaching AI implementation. Rather than racing to deploy the latest models, many are focused on...

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  China’s internet ecosystem, manufacturing base, batteries, EVs, robotics, and semiconductor becoming an AI-enabled industrial system

  Jun 1, 202650 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Differentiated Understanding, I spoke with THE TP Huang, an independent China tech analyst known for his work on fintech, EVs, batteries, AI, semiconductors, and the broader China industrial ecosystem.</p><p>The conversation traces China’s technology evolution from the early internet era to the present. TP argues that China’s internet ecosystem was shaped by a combination of censorship, protectionism, local engineering talent, and intense competition. That created powerful domestic champions such as Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei, Baidu, and ByteDance, which later became the foundation for super apps, payments, e-commerce, cloud infrastructure, and AI.</p><p>Th...

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  The reasons to open-source and the future of AI bootstrapping with Tiezhen Wang

  May 25, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>Joining me today is Tiezhen Wang (Tom), formerly of Hugging Face, where he worked with researchers in China, Australia, South Korea, Japan and across APAC, to help make open-source models more discoverable, usable, and visible to the global developer community. </p><p>In this conversation, Tiezhen explains why Hugging Face became the GitHub for models and why open source is not just a distribution mechanism but a different way of coordinating research. We discuss why Chinese AI labs have leaned so aggressively into open models, how DeepSeek changed the commercial logic of open source, and why Qwen, Kimi, GLM...

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  Nathan Lambert Reflects on China’s AI Labs: DeepSeek, Open Models, and the 'Race' with the U.S.

  May 19, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>Joining me today is Nathan Lambert, author of Interconnects AI and a post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI. Nathan recently returned from a major tour of China’s leading AI labs, where he met with researchers and teams building some of the most impressive open models in the world.</p><p>In this conversation, we discuss what Nathan saw on the ground: how Chinese AI labs differ from their U.S. counterparts, why open models have become such an important part of China’s AI strategy, and how labs like DeepSeek, Alibaba, ByteDance, Kimi, Z.ai, MiniMax, and...

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  AI x education, a contentious but unavoidable future. Designing tech for children with Dex's Reni Cao

  May 18, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>I spoke with Reni Cao, the CEO and co-founder of Dex. Dex Camera is a language-learning camera for kids. Reni is a dad, a former product lead at YouTube, and on a mission to build technology that does good for kids and gives digital autonomy back to parents. We dive into his personal story from his high school days that drives his passion for AI, and why he believes the current education system is a “cookie-cutter” that fails curious kids.</p><p>We get really into the nitty-gritty of what makes “good” tech versus “bad” tech for kids and why the cate...

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