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 …

Introduction: A Lazy Idea

Around March of this year (2025-03), I was chatting with a colleague who mentioned he had recently subscribed to The Wall Street Journal.

He also receives the daily print version of the WSJ in his email. However, for a working engineer, reading a full newspaper every day is …

Preface

Recently, Google announced the integration of Gemini into the Chrome browser, which sparked the idea of switching back to Chrome from the Arc browser. However, I’ve grown very fond of Arc’s vertical tab and bookmark management system. So, I decided to roll up my sleeves and build …