Preface: PDF Black Magic in the Gemini 3 Era

As a developer who loves integrating AI into side projects, my relationship with Google Gemini over the past six months has been like a roller coaster: from a honeymoon phase to a disappointing breakup (turning to hand-coded wheels), and finally to …

Prologue: Two Philosophies on Silicon Chips

In the previous two analyses, we moved from the “price war of business models” to the “new battlefield of Physical AI”. Now, we want to uncover the most underlying logic of this proxy war—this is not just a competition between …

Prologue: Breaking Out of the “Brain in a Vat” Dilemma

In the previous article, we analyzed how Google used the vertical integration of TPUs and the cost advantage of Gemini 3 to besiege OpenAI on the “cloud pure software” battlefield. If the future of AI is merely generating …

Prologue: When Silicon Valley’s “Cold War” Turns into a “Hot War”

Over the past two years, the AI industry seems to have experienced a typical “disruptor story”: the agile startup OpenAI, relying on ChatGPT and Nvidia’s powerful computing power, caught …

In the tech investment landscape of 2025, the most compelling showdown is undoubtedly between Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. This is not just a technical contest between two Large Language Models (LLMs), but a collision of two distinct business models and capital logics.

With …

Preface: AI + LLM = A Second Brain?

A few days ago, I came across a post in a Facebook group discussing how AI + LLM can act as a second brain.

As I recall, the author’s example involved integrating Obsidian (a note-taking app) with an LLM plugin. This allows your past notes to truly become a …