I worked at Baidu, ByteDance, and Microsoft. Now, I've raised millions to build robotic pets.

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He Jiabin is now building AI-powered robotic pets in Beijing.
He Jiabin left jobs in Big Tech and is now building AI-powered robotic pets.

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He has no regrets about leaving academia — or California — to start a café in Beijing with his partner

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Ki Won Yoon and Shu Yu at 010 Beijing Natural cafe.
Ki Won Yoon has no regrets about leaving academia — or California — to start a café in Beijing with his partner, Shu Yu.

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China Opens ‘Robot Mall,’ Its First Mall for Robots

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Beijing To Open World's First '4s Store' For Embodied Ai Robots

I feel more Chinese in the US and more American in China. I have to switch between 2 personalities.

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Jeff Niu moved to Beijing.
Jeff Niu grew up as an ABD in New York, but always felt drawn to China.

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I'm 25 and felt suffocated by city life — so I spent 2 months in a youth retirement village in China

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Man wearing black hat sitting near trees.
Ren Binglin says spending two months at a youth retirement village in China changed him.

Ren Binglin

See the Chinese cargo ship suspected of sabotaging critical undersea cables between 4 NATO countries

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Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored
Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored in waters near Denmark as it faces an investigation into suspected sabotage of undersea cables.

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Almost half of all major Chinese cities are sinking, study says

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Flooding in Zhuozhou city in China's Hebei province, August 9, 2023.

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China may be shaking out of its slump, and its economy could grow 5% this year after a surprising first-quarter performance, BofA says

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.

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The freefall in China's home prices continued in March as Beijing struggles to stem real estate crisis

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Local residents look at a model of a Poly Real Estate Group housing project at a real estate showroom on May 25, 2023 in Sanya, Hainan Province of China.
Local residents look at a model of a Poly Real Estate Group housing project at a real estate showroom on May 25, 2023 in Sanya, Hainan Province of China.

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The Moscow-Beijing alliance is here to stay because partnering with China is the only way Putin can sustain his conflict with the West, think tank says

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