Two AI stories this week look minor at first glance, but together they hint at much bigger changes in who wins and loses in the AI economy. Chinese‑built AI models now account for about 61% of all usage (measured in “tokens”) on OpenRouter , a major platform where developers can choose among many AI models through one API. DeepSeek , a fast‑growing Chinese AI startup, is expected to launch DeepSeek V4 , a new model focused on coding — aiming directly at one of the most valua

First of all, Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse  to all readers. I have always liked the symbolism of the Horse — energy, motion, and momentum, but also the importance of direction. Technology often runs fast; leadership is about deciding where it should go. Recently, two AI developments caught my attention. On the surface they look unrelated, but together they tell an interesting story about where AI is heading. One is NVIDIA’s PersonaPlex , a conversational voice AI that so

Last night, almost out of curiosity, I installed Claude for Excel . I wasn’t trying to run a demo or prove a point. I simply had a real task at hand:to compare the financial performance of Hong Kong’s UGC-funded universities —revenue, expenditure, surplus, and the trend across multiple academic years. Normally, this would mean: jumping between annual reports, copying figures from PDFs and news articles, cleaning inconsistent tables, and manually building comparisons in Excel.

When internet first started, one of the grueling tasks was to design web page. While the advent of chatbot LLM has allowed us to write simple programming code to display simple web page, there lacks aesthetics. Google has just changed that by the announcement of the Gemini 3 model this week. Wow. In the latest announcement, which is featured here in this paper: https://generativeui.github.io/ (Please go click and try some of the demo.), we can see that just by typing in s