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1. 14h
   Xianyu becomes a grey market for AI: H20 servers, cheap tokens, Gemini subs

   A 略大参考 article republished by TMTPost argues that Alibaba's second-hand marketplace Xianyu has become a clearing house for AI "offcuts" in China: retired NVIDIA H20 chips and complete servers (an 8-GPU 141GB H20 machine listed near 2.8 million yuan), cut-rate API tokens, and Gemini Pro subscriptions at about 5 yuan a month versus the official $19.99. Sellers also offer custom agent building, cloud deployment and one-stop website services. The article cautions that most listings serve as display and lead generation, with larger enterprises sticking to established channels.

   钛媒体 · 🔥 7
2. 2d
   A portrait of ordinary lives inside China's AI fog

   A long-form feature by writer Shanhu (via Huxiu) profiles about a dozen ordinary people living with AI: an 83-year-old man who learns from free courses and uses AI to write his memoir, an art-school graduate with no coding background who won an AR game contest using low-code AI tools, a stay-at-home mother selling AI-assisted writing on Xianyu, coders taking AI ghostwriting gigs, and workers running domestic AI chips inside an abandoned construction tunnel at a hydropower station in western Sichuan. It also documents darker cases: a breakup driven by an AI-generated psychological report, an artist forced into a six-hour livestream to prove her work was human-made, workplace AI theatrics, and a man detained for running an illegal API-reselling site. The author's conclusion is that AI has no will of its own — it is a mirror.

   虎嗅 AI · 🔥 3

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