China Solved AI Adoption. What's Still Missing? 🔎 | Following the Yuan

Chinese consumers may be among the most AI-receptive in the world — yet consumer-facing AI has never quite cracked the paywall in China. Is this just a matter of time, or was the whole premise flawed

While AI leaders in the U.S. are having a collective reckoning about AI safety, China’s AI giants are confronting a less existential problem: Their trick from their old playbook might not work.

The trick sounds simple: build a super-app gateway, hook users with free products, then monetize through advertising and e-commerce conversion. In the AI era, tha…