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November 3Tuesday
  1. Recode China AI40

    How Chinese AI Found Its Persona: DeepSeek's Fan-Made Whale Girl and the Shift to Humanized AI Branding

    DeepSeek's fan-created anime mascot "Whale Girl," nicknamed "Big Fat Blue Fish," went viral on Bilibili after creator ZipZipPipe adapted an earlier character using GPT Image 2, with the surge peaking around the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash release. The character, never officially endorsed by DeepSeek, reflects a broader shift: Chinese AI labs moved from English acronyms like ERNIE and GLM to Chinese names such as Wenxin and Qianwen, then to relatable personas like ByteDance's Doubao.

October 13Tuesday
  1. Recode China AI34

    DeepSeek Engineer's Viral Blog on AI Risk and Anthropic Draws Global Media Attention

    A blog by DeepSeek machine learning and kernel engineer Liu Shengyu went viral after he questioned whether frontier AI can now optimize its own low-level GPU code and compared Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to Adolf Hitler. The post drew coverage from outlets including South China Morning Post and Business Insider, amplifying debate over who should control advanced AI.