Hong Kong AI Podcast

From Yahoo Mail in the 90s to building EA's online games business out of Shanghai, to leading a prototyping team on Apple Vision Pro — Hanley Leung has worked through every major platform shift of the last 30 years. Now...

Dr. Bruce Cheung (張維) has been doing AI in Hong Kong since before most people had a computer. One of the first Computer Science graduates from HKU in 1985, he built statistical language models on floppy disks using LISP...

A neuroscience PhD who once mapped neonatal mouse brain wiring under a microscope, Marcus Leiwe now runs an AI consultancy in Hong Kong applying the same academic rigor to business problems. From building a private...

Jacky Man (文梓軒) is a 22-year-old HKU double-degree student who co-founded Mastermock — an AI-powered exam question generator that helps teachers save four hours a week on paper-setting. He drives a taxi at night to fund...

Jenny Wong is a corporate marketer with a creative writing background and zero IT experience. Six months ago she set out to build an AI that could write tonally-correct Cantonese pop lyrics. Every major LLM failed at...

A self-taught shader artist from Diamond Hill who beat Google projects to reach the Webby Awards top 5 — Lok Lok Wong builds 3D worlds that run on an iPad using nothing but math, Three.js, and raw curiosity. From...

Ronald's tech career predates AI being a boardroom imperative by decades — IBM (on the same GM manufacturing team as pre-Craigslist Craig Newmark), Wang Labs, HP, FedEx Singapore (where the client-server system later...

Jeremy is a private M&A lawyer who runs a legal AI startup — and runs his own LLM inference hardware out of his living room because he's been building custom PCs since age 14 (for Call of Duty), then mined Dogecoin on...

Michelangiolo quit quantitative finance during COVID to teach himself computer science from his home in Italy — now he builds some of the most interesting search infrastructure in Hong Kong. We dig into why vanilla RAG...

Our first fully-Cantonese episode. Kenneth Yip is the founder and general counsel of MakeBell — an AI legal tech startup building domain-specific AI assistants for Hong Kong legal professionals, with a focus on...

William has been doing AI since high school — 12 years before GPT made it mainstream. We talk about what's really inside these models, the difference between knowledge and intelligence, latent space research, and why...

Nils dives into multi-robot coordination and collaborative perception — how phones, glasses, and robots build a shared understanding of physical space. From Warhammer AR overlays during COVID to a patented...

AI and intellectual property — it's the question everyone runs into eventually. We dig into copyright vs. training data, trade secrets as a practical alternative to patents, music IP disputes, and what Hong Kong's...

We dig into how AI is changing who gets to build software, how rabbit holes are a good thing, and what it's like to ship product in Hong Kong. Alexander shares how he went from oat milk to building conversational...

Aug steps in front of the camera for this one. We talk about his journey with the I-Ching, the challenges in teaching AI 'taste', and why transparent systems matter more than clever ones.