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42 ZHANGJING · EPISODE COLLECTION

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· 26:36 · ZH + EN

As models change, should applications preserve the problem or today's solution?

Guests / narrator:曲凯

Listen: 01:03–05:34. Qu recalls successive swings: uncertainty about model–application relationships in 2023, cooling and recovery in 2024, reasoning and agents sustaining expectations in 2025, and stronger models alongside colder application funding in his circles during 2026. He says this is the first time he has heard firms declare the category dead.

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· 68:20 · ZH + EN

Enterprise AI Must Count Review Work: Jenny on Reliable Workflows, Customers and Capital

Guests / narrator:Jenny Xiao

Jenny describes a Japanese financial company finding document organization and analysis insufficiently reliable. Even mostly correct output needed item-by-item checking, adding work. This turns a strong-model claim into a delivery question: how much work disappears, and what responsibility remains for errors?

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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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· 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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· 36:38 · ZH + EN

A company's exit does not settle demand: three separate scorecards for Character.AI

Guests / narrator:曲凯

Listen: 01:08–03:16. Qu first rejects equating the event with the failure of conversational companionship. In his description, model researchers and people continuing the product receive different arrangements. A technical team's decision to enter a large company does not establish that users no longer want character conversations.

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· 45:16 · ZH + EN

Before judging an AI opportunity, identify the capability you are betting on

Guests / narrator:汪华

Listen: 09:18–17:25. Wang's first layer covers language and multimodal interfaces, together with simple tasks that still involve people. Users can express needs through text, voice, or images without learning every menu. People remain responsible for judgment, handoffs, and completion. Wang compares this change to mobile internet and expresses strong confidence in it.

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· 43:44 · ZH + EN

Meshy’s 3D Generation Lesson: A Good Turntable Video Is Still Several Steps from a Usable Asset

Guests / narrator:胡渊鸣

An image with depth or a video rotating around an object may not provide an asset that can be edited, animated and placed in a game. Hu moves from graphics fundamentals through representations to Meshy’s product and startup choices. The central thread is that outputs need to enter existing workflows to move beyond demonstrations.

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