Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. Most recently for 10 years, he was Managing Director for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund. At CIC’s inception in 2007, he was among the first group of overseas hires by CIC, where he had leadership roles in global investments involving financial services, technology (TMT), energy and natural resources sectors (Head of CIC North America office 2014-2015). Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Book author of China's Mobile Economy (Wiley 2016, among “best 2016 business books for CIOs”), Digital Economy 2.0 (Chinese, 2017), The Digital Silk Road (2018 German), China's AI Big Bang (Japanese 2019), Investing in China (Risk Books, 2006). Latest books - "The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy" and "The Digital War – How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace". He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and in 2014 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University (NYU). He has served as adjunct professor at NYU School of Law.
The agents are coming. 2024 was the year when artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) became ubiquitous and the subsequent competition among numerous LLMs has both s...
TikTok may be the social network where global users spend the most time, but few TikTok influencers realize that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, also holds another global top 10 mobil...
China’s industrial policy towards data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing. The fresh approach could be a model for developing economies to follow — but the nature of AI innovati...
In August 2022, the number of connected “things” (mobile devices) exceeded the number of connected “people” for the first time in China.
进入中国市场以来，特斯拉在大型城市取得了巨大成功，但现在它正在迅速扩展到全国其他更为偏远的地区。的确，云南省的一个小山村现在被称为“特斯拉村”。
Tesla has had a lot of success in China’s megacities for years, but it is now rapidly expanding to other more remotes regions throughout the country. Indeed, one small mountain town in Yu...
• An AI-assisted team recently beat traditional farmers in a Chinese strawberry-growing competition.
2020年初，中国中央政府宣布了“数字村庄”的试点计划。 这是自2013的信息消费政策以来，政府对于“数字中国”计划的最新推动——该政策促进了信息技术的使用，刺激了更多的国内消费以及移动互联网经济蓬勃发展。
At the beginning of 2020, China’s central government announced plans to pilot a “digital village”. It’s the country’s latest push towards a “Digital China” since the information consumpti...
三年前，中国共享单车行业蓬勃发展，初创企业在城市街道上放置了五颜六色的单车。但这种共享泡沫在2019年破裂，造成一波破产浪潮以及巨大的“自行车墓地“。如今，因为人们担心受到感染而避免乘坐公交车以及地铁，新冠肺炎疫情在中国引发了一股新的骑行热潮。共享单车公司已经从过去的错误中吸取了教训，并正准备提供更加智能的服务。
Three years ago, China’s bike-sharing sector was booming, and start-ups crammed city streets with colourful two wheelers. The bubble burst in 2019, resulting in a wave of bankruptcies and...
Financing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is one of the main priorities for the international community. However, as major stakeholders agree on working together to achieve the...
2019年9月，中国版的换脸程序隐私风暴出现了。 Zao应用程序使用人工智能和机器学习技术，允许用户与电影或电视节目中的名人互换面孔。 它一开始是作为创建Deepfake人脸合成图像（Deepfake是英文“deep learning”深度学习和“fake”伪造的混成词，专指用基于人工智能的人体图像合成技术）的工具而快速传播开来，但人们很快注意到，Zao的用户协议授予其在...
In September 2019, China had its own version of the FaceApp privacy storm. Using artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques, the Zao app allowed users to swap faces with cele...
2017年5月，中国举办了一场具有历史意义的围棋比赛，世界排名第一的冠军柯杰，与由Google DeepMind Lab设计的AI程序AlphaGo，在乌镇进行对决。这场对决充满了悬念和象征意义——人类对机器，直觉对算法，传统对现代。结果，AlphaGo连胜三局，以3-0击败人类最强选手，同时也象征着“数字经济”时代的到来。
