
Poe Zhao is a Beijing-based technology analyst who builds rigorous, bilingual explanations of China's tech ecosystem for global readers. He founded Dailyio (Chinese) and Hello China Tech (English) to map how China's AI, robotics, semiconductors and EVs scale in practice: from policy design and state capital to supply-chain execution and market adoption.
Shaped by a different economic environment, China’s AI startups are optimizing for different customers than their US counterparts — and seeing faster industrial adoption.