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42 ZHANGJING · EPISODE COLLECTION

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· 58:08 · ZH + EN

AI Infrastructure Starts with Choosing Which Bill to Optimize

Guests / narrator:朱亦博

Listen: 01:07–07:11; 08:40–11:20. Zhu reduces the underlying problems to computation, communication, and storage. GPUs need networks, switches, storage, operations, resource scheduling, and training and inference frameworks. His comparison with cloud service layers is an explanatory framework, not the only possible industry taxonomy.

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· 54:35 · ZH + EN

Building Environments for Agents: Feedback, Boundaries and Resuming After an Interruption

Guests / narrator:雷磊

An agent performing tasks needs more than a capable model. It must run code, browse websites, preserve login, wait for confirmation and return to its previous position. Lei calls the supporting environments Agent Infra, or agent infrastructure. He wants Grasp to handle common browser engineering so application developers can concentrate on industry tasks.

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· 72:49 · ZH + EN

The Product Boundary of Reinforcement Learning: Acting and Asking After Answering

Guests / narrator:吴翼

Listen: 01:55–06:14. Classifying a cat or dog involves a labeled answer and one decision. Playing a game requires many choices—left, right, or jump—and several paths may win. Reinforcement learning, or RL, improves an action policy using rewards received after acting. It addresses processes with multiple possible choices whose quality becomes clear only later.

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· 48:32 · ZH + EN

Growth Is Part of the Product: ACE Studio’s Experiments With Pricing, Channels and Feedback

Guests / narrator:Joe

The title connects three months in the United States, conviction and ten-million-dollar ARR. Joe is more specific: ACE Studio then earned about US$800,000 monthly, compared with a previous level above US$80,000. Growth was slow for five weeks before a change from week six. Multiplying US$800,000 by twelve gives about US$9.6 million, a monthly run rate rather than proof of full-year collections or revenue entirely meeting recurring-revenue definitions.

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· 45:57 · ZH + EN

An Agent Must Handle the Consequences of Action: Pokee’s RL and Language-Model Approach

Guests / narrator:朱哲清 Bill

A business trip can appear to require only an itinerary. Across cities, days and meetings, however, hotels, transport and timing constrain one another. An early choice can make the eleventh step impossible. Bill uses this example to explain why an agent needs to consider consequences, search alternatives and recover when a path fails.

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· 31:34 · ZH + EN

From Information to Action, From Watching to Participating: Qu Kai’s Early-2025 Thesis

Guests / narrator:曲凯

The title sounds certain, but the argument contains many conditions. Applications might grow differently if models cross a usability threshold, if agents can deliver results and if organizations adapt to a new business model. An agent here is a model system that uses tools and advances tasks, rather than a name for every chat window.

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· 60:11 · ZH + EN

Character.AI’s Post-Training: More Conversation Does Not Necessarily Mean Better Understanding

Guests / narrator:Ted

Open conversation has no single correct answer. A user may enjoy a response, rewrite it, delete it or request another. Reflecting on approximately a year at Character.AI, Ted discusses turning such behavior into data, training and experiments. The central subject is a system that continually discovers mistakes.

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· 45:16 · ZH + EN

EVE’s Companion Design: How a Relationship Continues After the AI Remembers You

Guests / narrator:Tristan

Tristan wants EVE to build a continuing relationship around the real user’s life: understanding earlier experiences, connecting them with present goals and participating in new daily conversations. He distinguishes this aim from jointly creating stories about characters. The host points out that extended use can also come from consuming content.

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· 35:31 · ZH + EN

Gaotu’s AI Implementation: Serve Neglected Customers Before Discussing the Replacement of Top Salespeople

Guests / narrator:封诚

If a company connects AI throughout its processes and reports impressive coverage, has its business improved? Feng Cheng examines acquisition, conversion and delivery, then concentrates on leads already obtained: potential customers who receive slow responses or inadequate explanations.

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· 63:04 · ZH + EN

Albert’s Sequence for Finding PMF: Deliver Judgeable Value, Then Build Advantages That Sustain the Business

Guests / narrator:Albert

Founders often ask whether a model upgrade will erase their feature. Albert moves the question earlier: can you deliver defined value to a defined audience now, and identify which change improved the result? If product quality remains difficult to judge, discussing permanent defenses can lead a team into waiting without feedback.

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· 52:24 · ZH + EN

Personal AI’s Hard Question: When Does Remembering Your Life Become Understanding You?

Guests / narrator:陶芳波

An AI can retrieve information or fill out forms without knowing which result matters to you. Tao uses this distinction to explain the move from MindOS to Me.bot: first build AI that understands an individual’s needs, then let it call tools providing services. He also wants AI to keep learning from daily experience rather than depend permanently on its original workflows.

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