Flomo is a minimalist two-person notes app from China inspired by the Zettelkasten method, offering a simple text box and tagging system with no folders or ads. The app has accumulated over 100 million stored notes, and in 2024 its founders acquired the outliner app Mubu from ByteDance's Feishu office suite. The company succeeds by selling a writing habit rather than features, maintaining privacy through a subscription model, and building trust through transparent product thinking.
A DeepSeek researcher's blog post comparing concentrated AI control to fascism went viral in China, arguing that open-sourcing powerful AI is essential to prevent dystopian outcomes. The post, which criticized Anthropic and OpenAI while praising DeepSeek's open approach, received widespread sympathetic coverage in Chinese media and tech communities, reflecting growing sentiment that Western AI companies are motivated by anti-Chinese ideology.
A DeepSeek researcher's blog post comparing concentrated AI control to authoritarianism has gone viral in China, expressing concerns that companies like Anthropic monopolizing advanced AI could lead to dystopian outcomes. The post argues for open-sourced, universally accessible AI development and has garnered widespread support from Chinese tech communities.