{"product_id":"beijing-the-ai-capital-richard-murch-9798188531799","title":"Beijing - The AI Capital of Intelligence: How the City Generates AI for China","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Imperial Foundations of Learning\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong before anyone in Beijing spoke of neural networks, the city had already spent centuries perfecting a different kind of intelligence machine. For most of the last six hundred years, the imperial examination system drew the most brilliant minds of a vast empire toward a single destination. Scholars from every province studied, memorized, and competed for the chance to sit the highest examinations in the capital, and the best of them stayed on to serve the state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe result was a city with an unusual gravitational pull. Talent did not merely pass through Beijing; it accumulated there, generation after generation, in the ministries, academies, and great households of the capital.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe idea that the nation's cleverest people belong in Beijing, working in some fashion for the nation, is far older than the People's Republic. It is one of the deepest cultural foundations of the city's modern AI industry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat distinguishes Beijing's academic engine is not only the research it produces but the ease with which laboratories turn into companies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pattern repeats across decades. A professor builds a research group; the group builds a system that works; the system becomes a startup with the professor as chief scientist and the students as founding engineers. Zhipu AI, born from Tsinghua's Knowledge Engineering Group, is the canonical AI-era example, but the model is as old as Founder Group's emergence from PKU's typesetting laboratory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThen laboratories became companies - then success was immediate. Then came the Chinese Governments Money - lots of it. This leads to Global Success. Then came more Government Money ---- and so it goes ....\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Murch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798188531799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Richard Murch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665952641279,"sku":"9798188531799","price":28.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa64ecae-84e6-49f6-afdd-5892f97cc9f3.jpg?v=1792014801","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beijing-the-ai-capital-richard-murch-9798188531799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}