Yanyan Wang
Tech and business strategist translating frontier innovation into clear stories for leaders and builders. I write about AI, robotics, and quantum computing with a lens on what it means for markets — and for the people doing the building.
How I read the frontier
Signal over noise
The point is never that something is new. It is whether it changes how a business should act. Every brief leads with that question and answers it plainly.
Built by people
Every model, chip, and robot is a stack of human decisions. I explain the technology through the products, bets, and trade-offs behind it — not the hype around it.
Written to be used
Concise, concrete, and honest about uncertainty. The goal is a piece you can forward to your team and act on the same afternoon.
Frontier, not fringe
AI, robotics, and quantum computing get equal weight, because the next decade is being written across all three at once.
From the desk
AI Agents Are Moving Into Everyday Work
The latest AI products can research, use tools, work across files, and stay with a project for hours. The shift from answering questions to completing workflows could change how knowledge work gets done — and which parts of your job an agent can handle.
Why Memory Chips Are Getting So Expensive
Memory prices have roughly quadrupled in a year, pushing Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung past $1 trillion in market value within three weeks — and pushing up the price of Macs, Xboxes and Galaxy phones. What caused the memory shortage, why it matters outside tech, and what may happen next.
AI in China: The Models and the Makers
China is moving fast in AI, but its top models and the companies behind them are less familiar outside the country. A field guide to the six most-used consumer AI apps — Doubao, Qwen, DeepSeek, Yuanbao, Kimi and Ernie — and the 'six little dragons' racing right behind them.
The Desks
Field notes on compute, capex, and the enterprises actually deploying AI — written for operators and investors.
OpenA high-signal dashboard of frontier-tech tickers, trailing-month moves, and the news that moves them.
OpenShort visual breakdowns of the ideas behind every brief, for when reading is not the format.
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