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☁️Llama 2 is China Cloud's Best Friend

When Meta’s large language model, Llama 2, was released a couple of weeks ago, it chose Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, as its preferred partner. Since the model is open source (though people dispute how open source it really is given its licensing

Topics: Meta• Open Source• AI•

Is Meta Becoming a Trustworthy AI Company?

Among all the Big Tech companies who are planting flags in the red hot generative AI arms race, I think the most trustworthy one may actually be Meta. Yep, Zuck’s Meta. I say this because its recently released large language model (LLM), LLaMA

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2021 Interconnected Wrap-Up: Readership Stats and Breakdown

As we near the end of 2021, it’s time for a wrap-up post on Interconnected. We wrote a similar post last year in “Open Source, Open Stats, Open Development [https://interconnected.blog/open-source-open-stats-open-development/]”, where we provided a rough breakdown of our audience. We

Topics: Meta• Geopolitics•

So What Is The American Dream?

Every July 4th, America’s Independence Day, always puts me in a reflective mood. I’ve sworn the oath to protect the US constitution [https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm] three times in my life -- once to become

Topics: Meta• Alibaba• LATAM•

Two Week Break; No New Post

Dear Interconnected Subscribers and Readers: We are going on a two-week break (first break since starting this newsletter more than a year ago), because I am working on a few personal and professional transitions, moving to a different city (Seattle), and planning some new

Topics: Audio• Meta•

Announcing: Interconnected Voices

Hello Interconnected Readers: I’m thrilled to launch our audio product: Interconnected Voices. All episodes are hosted on the Interconnected YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJewn4q_5zRmEB-1Jjh5h4A], so please subscribe to it! Each episode is the recording of a discussion I had

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March 21, 2021: Lived Experience Quotient

I debated all week whether to write about tech news and China today, per usual, or share something more personally and philosophical, given the violence against Asian Americans that reached a new height last week with what happened in Atlanta. I decided on the

Topics: Meta• IPO• Blockchain•

Open Source, Open Stats, Open Development

This is a shorter post than my customary Thursday articles, but hopefully no less interesting. My last four posts articulated a “Global by Nature” framework, looking at the forces that will shape a technology-driven (instead of a trade-driven) Globalization 2.0, and where investment

Topics: Meta• Open Source• Developer•

Building a Bilingual Newsletter: 2020 Edition

I’m taking a departure from my usual deep dive analysis to write this “under the hood” exploration of how I’ve been building this bilingual newsletter. I want to share some behind the scenes information, because I’ve always treated Interconnected as a

Topics: AI• Azure• Meta•

GPT-3: An Abstraction of Time vs Money

Hype or not, GPT-3, OpenAI’s newest natural language AI model, has been percolating in the back of my mind ever since it was announced two months ago [https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/]. This post will be some open musing of what I think

Topics: Meta• Geopolitics• Zoom•

Why Write A Bilingual English-Chinese Newsletter

It’s been three months since I published my first post on Interconnected. Since then, I’ve been writing articles on a wide range of technology and business topics [https://interconnected.blog/popular-topics/], twice a week in both English and Chinese. In this post,

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