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Zhen Cao🔮🔭

@gemboomboom

A techno-optimist elegantly degen on consumer plays, advisor @JoinRepublic 🕹postivesum games, ex @HTCVive @NYUTischSchool NFT 2017

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When elite universities uploaded all of their courses online for public consumption, we collectively realized that the limiting reagent for global intelligence is not access to information, it's motivation.

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If the winning strategy is customer obsession, then it’s worth sacrificing the data wall to improve the user interface and user experience. Real users will remain loyal to the brand and culture.

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The daily foundation model evolution just like HR changes in companies, basically we fired Claude 3.7 and hired Gemini more than a week ago. And Grok has been our DevOps guy. Most likely any simple product you only need a PM.

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Chinese IP-driven retail is booming: Pop Mart hit $1.83 B in ’24 revenue (Labubu $419 M, +726% YoY ). Meanwhile, U.S. malls are slowing down and new IP beyond nostalgia is scarce. China is exporting a new culture-commerce model — but ofc Pudgy Penguins stands out as a rare

Chinese IP-driven retail is booming: Pop Mart hit $1.83 B in ’24 revenue  (Labubu $419 M, +726% YoY ). 

Meanwhile, U.S. malls are slowing down and new IP beyond nostalgia is scarce. 

China is exporting a new culture-commerce model — but ofc <a href="/pudgypenguins/">Pudgy Penguins</a> stands out as a rare
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Brain science is humanity’s final frontier in technology. Every sensation—touch, smell, sight, emotion—is just a signal interpreted by the brain.

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In June 2025, POPMART is worth $ 46 B. The stock has surged roughly +560% in the past 12 months. Labubu is the first Chinese IP to gain such huge popularity in the West in my lifetime. But don’t call it a toy company. POPMART owns the full pipeline — design, manufacturing,

In June 2025, POPMART is worth $ 46 B.
The stock has surged roughly +560% in the past 12 months.
Labubu is the first Chinese IP to gain such huge popularity in the West in my lifetime.

But don’t call it a toy company.
POPMART owns the full pipeline — design, manufacturing,
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We've officially crossed a critical inflection point: Data now holds greater strategic value than compute. This shift is fundamentally driven by the saturation of publicly available datasets—most major data sources have already been thoroughly exploited by large-scale models.

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Small language models are quickly closing the gap with their larger counterparts—here’s proof from the latest wave of SLM research and benchmarks: Microsoft Phi series: Phi-2 (2.7bn) achieves commonsense reasoning scores and code generation scores on par with 30bn models while

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In China, business moves fast because WeChat is a true super app. It has mini-programs for everything, payment, contract, charts, news, games, bringing work and life together in one place. And deals get done without bouncing between email, WhatsApp, or Instagram. Trust just