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Why so little news from China?

4 points by wrqvrwvq ↗ HN
Searching for "china ai" on hn gives some idea of the lack of diverse subjects and stories from chinese tech. We don't see a lot of headlines about chinese usage of llms and what the major differences are. We're not getting enough stories about how people are thinking about next generation technologies. I just don't see anything about whether llm's are better or worse for chinese speakers or what new tech trends/fads are happening among youth.

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theamk
I don't see much about whether llm's are better or worse for German speakers either, nor for French, nor for any other languages.

HN is very much English only, and even then, it is mostly US-centric.

Guestmodinfo
Just like not knowing english used to cut out many from having their hands on useful info in the last 70-20 years similarly now not knowing Mandarin may keep you back from knowing anything tech advance from an emerging powerhouse.
seanmcdirmid
China is still far away with a mostly segregated software ecosystem, so why would we hear much about it? I would be interested in hearing how Chinese are leveraging LLMs, especially the more efficient Chinese models coming out of Alibaba, tencent and deepseek, but I’m probably in the minority and news, like HN, mainly serves majority demand.
samtheDamned
There is v2ex[0] which was suggested in another thread some time ago as a similar forum to keep with with chinese tech news. I don't use it much personally because of the load times from outside of china and translation difficulties but I've kept it bookmarked just in case.

0: https://v2ex.com/