{
 "title": "Open-Source Coding War, Chinese Robot IPOs, and Korea's Chip Deadline",
 "description": "Xiaomi's MiMo Code and MoonShot's Kimi are rewriting the AI coding tool market—but at what cost to your data? EngineAI's Hong Kong IPO signals a robotics manufacturing surge. And China's 2 trillion yuan data center plan with an 80% domestic chip mandate is reshaping semiconductor supply chains. Today: what Korean tech practitioners need to watch, starting now. Release timing: MIT-licensed terminal-based coding agents deployed June 10-11. This briefing covers the five critical moves in China's tech dominance—models, robotics, semiconductors, telecom networks, and policy—plus a real-time checklist for Korean companies. This broadcast is provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #KyungjinKim",
 "link": "https://kimkj.com/%EC%98%A4%EB%8A%98%EC%9E%90-%EB%89%B4%EC%8A%A4-%EC%98%81%EC%83%81/?mod=document&uid=5907",
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  {
   "id": "S001",
   "slide": 1,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "This broadcast is provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim."
  },
  {
   "id": "S002",
   "slide": 1,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "So China's got a bunch of big moves hitting at the same time today?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S003",
   "slide": 1,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Same week, both Xiaomi and MoonShot dropped coding tools one after another. Xiaomi's MiMo Code is an open-source coding agent—they announced in their own benchmarks that it outperformed Claude Code. MoonShot released their K2.7-Code model and a desktop agent called Kimi Work on June 12th, both at the same time. It signals that the battlefield's moved beyond model performance feuds into the actual tools developers use every single day."
  },
  {
   "id": "S004",
   "slide": 1,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "So robotics and semiconductors are getting tied together with US-China tensions too, huh?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S005",
   "slide": 1,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Shenzhen humanoid robot company EngineAI confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO on June 12th with a valuation around 10 billion yuan—that's about 2 trillion won. Meanwhile, on the US side, Senator Cotton, who chairs the intelligence committee, asked the Justice Department around the same time to investigate alleged Chinese disinformation operations under FARA. Today we're gonna break down these five threads—models, robotics, semiconductors, telecom, and policy—in that order, and wrap up with a checklist that Korean companies should watch for tomorrow."
  },
  {
   "id": "S006",
   "slide": 2,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "They're saying the benchmark scores are high—can we just take that at face value?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S007",
   "slide": 2,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Xiaomi announced they scored 86.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, beating Claude Code's 65.4%. But outlets like TechTimes pointed out these scores are self-reported—basically, the company graded its own homework. That said, the code's MIT-licensed so anyone can open it up and audit it. Once you install it, you get free access to their 1-trillion-parameter MiMo-V2.5 model, at least temporarily. The real value isn't the score—it's the architecture that keeps context from getting lost during long tasks."
  },
  {
   "id": "S008",
   "slide": 2,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "When Korean developers are considering rolling this out, what should they look at in terms of actual work?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S009",
   "slide": 2,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "The code itself is open source so you can verify it, but the inference—the process where the model actually generates answers—goes through Xiaomi's cloud servers. So you're essentially uploading your company code to their servers, which crashes into enterprise security policy. Before you deploy it, you've got to verify in the contract and trace the network path—where exactly is that inference data going? Do that homework first or you'll end up with a leak incident you didn't see coming."
  },
  {
   "id": "S010",
   "slide": 3,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "This broadcast is provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim."
  },
  {
   "id": "S011",
   "slide": 3,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "What do they mean by running 300 sub-agents at the same time?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S012",
   "slide": 3,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Kimi Work is an AI assistant you install right on your desktop. You give it a goal in plain language and it breaks that job down into pieces—up to 300 sub-agents can grab different parts and work in parallel. They threw in a browser extension called WebBridge that handles web search, data extraction, even form-filling automatically. This swarm approach—where multiple workers divide up a single task and work at the same time—baked into a desktop product? That's a first among Chinese companies."
  },
  {
   "id": "S013",
   "slide": 3,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "But the coding model performance—people are divided on how good it actually is?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S014",
   "slide": 3,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "K2.7-Code supposedly improved 21.8% over the last version in their own tests and cut thinking tokens by 30%. Pricing is cheap—95 cents per million input tokens, 4 bucks for output—and they published the weights too. But VentureBeat reported that actual working developers are saying the published scores don't match what they actually experience in practice. What you're really looking at is an experiment in shifting revenue from API sales to monthly subscription software."
  },
  {
   "id": "S015",
   "slide": 4,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "So it's not just one company going public—there's a whole line of them?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S016",
   "slide": 4,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "With EngineAI knocking on Hong Kong's door, the line of Chinese humanoid robot IPOs just got longer. Unitree's pushing a 6.2 billion dollar listing on Shanghai's ChiNext, and PaXini—the robot hand company backed by BYD—is looking at Hong Kong too. Linkerbot, the robot hand unicorn, is eyeing a 6 billion dollar valuation. Rolandberger's prediction? Thirty-plus robotics and parts companies will go public by year-end."
  },
  {
   "id": "S017",
   "slide": 4,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "Why is there suddenly this rush to capital markets all at once?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S018",
   "slide": 4,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Because they're walking in with actual revenue and shipment numbers. EngineAI's factory is pumping out one unit every 15 minutes—they're targeting 10,000 a year. In 2025, of 13,000 units shipped globally, Agibot and Unitree each took over 5,000, while Figure AI and Tesla in the US only managed a few hundred. The playbook is clear: capture market share with volume, rake in cash, reinvest that cash into R&D. For Korean parts suppliers, if they miss the moment when reducers and motors shift from Japanese to Chinese suppliers, they lose their entire customer base."
  },
  {
   "id": "S019",
   "slide": 5,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "What does that 80% Chinese chip requirement mean for Korea?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S020",
   "slide": 5,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "It's basically pushing out Nvidia and AMD to funnel demand toward Huawei DaVinci and Cambrian AI chips. But here's the thing—Korea's strength in HBM memory will probably be carved out. Inside China, SMIC's stuck with 7nm production capacity limits, and HBM supply is tight. So Samsung and SK Hynix will keep exporting HBM to China for a while longer."
  },
  {
   "id": "S021",
   "slide": 5,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "So what should Korea be watching?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S022",
   "slide": 5,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Watch CXMT—China's memory maker—and their push for HBM3 self-sufficiency. Right now Korean HBM goes into those systems, but the moment CXMT gets their own HBM3 into mass production, that 80% requirement in the 2-trillion-yuan plan could swallow memory too. That's the inflection point where Korea's whole semiconductor export structure gets shaken. Keep your eye on Cambrian too—they're targeting 500,000 AI chips this year but yield rates are strangling them."
  },
  {
   "id": "S023",
   "slide": 6,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "This broadcast is provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim."
  },
  {
   "id": "S024",
   "slide": 6,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "The word 'computing power' keeps coming up—what exactly does that mean?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S025",
   "slide": 6,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Computing power—basically the raw computational horsepower needed to process calculations. The Ministry of Industry and IT said they're gonna roll out computing power networks covering 75% of cities with sub-millisecond response times by 2028. Telecom carriers are dumping money into this. China Mobile is devoting 62% of their 136.6 billion yuan spending this year to computing networks, and China Telecom's allocating 35% of infrastructure budget to the same thing."
  },
  {
   "id": "S026",
   "slide": 6,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "Is this an opportunity for Korean telecom equipment makers?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S027",
   "slide": 6,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Massive purchase orders mean equipment and server makers like Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDS could grab contracts. But the supply chain is locked down around Huawei and ZTE, so the openings are narrow. The market itself is ballooning though. WSTS forecasts the global semiconductor market'll hit 1.51 trillion dollars in 2026—up 90% year-on-year—and memory will spike 250%, pushing past 800 billion dollars."
  },
  {
   "id": "S028",
   "slide": 7,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "So China's building its own data centers while blocking construction in the US?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S029",
   "slide": 7,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "That's Senator Cotton's argument. He's saying China's building their own 2-trillion-yuan data center while simultaneously stirring up anti-data-center sentiment inside the US. OpenAI put out a report on June 10th saying accounts apparently working for provincial government clients in China were logging in over VPN and using ChatGPT to generate English content. There was even a cartoon where execs and robots carry fat briefcases while regular people foot the electricity bills. That said, OpenAI assessed the actual impact as minimal and shut down those accounts."
  },
  {
   "id": "S030",
   "slide": 7,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "What should Korean companies be paying attention to here?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S031",
   "slide": 7,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "If FARA investigations actually move forward, Korean companies dealing with entities involved in China-linked lobbying could face indirect sanctions risk. The more the US-China conflict deepens, the more Korean chipmakers and equipment suppliers—who sell to both sides—need to dig into the background of their trading partners. Do that diligence or you'll end up on a sanctions list later."
  },
  {
   "id": "S032",
   "slide": 8,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "To sum it up, what do practitioners need to tackle right away?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S033",
   "slide": 8,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Three threads. For teams evaluating coding tools, before you install MiMo Code or Kimi, verify in the contract and trace the network—is model inference data going to Chinese servers? For semiconductors, just check quarterly how CXMT's making out with their HBM3 self-sufficiency push. The moment they pull it off, Korean HBM can get cut out. That signal is when you need to overhaul your export strategy."
  },
  {
   "id": "S034",
   "slide": 8,
   "speaker": "Guest",
   "text": "How do you track the robotics side and the timeline?"
  },
  {
   "id": "S035",
   "slide": 8,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "Parts suppliers should track quarterly how fast reducers and precision motors are switching from Japanese to Chinese suppliers. For the IPO timeline, group four companies together and watch them: Unitree, EngineAI, PaXini, and Linkerbot. The commercialization roadmap announcements coming out of the Hangzhou summit on June 25th and 26th—those are your clues for next quarter's trajectory."
  },
  {
   "id": "S036",
   "slide": 8,
   "speaker": "Host",
   "text": "This broadcast is provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim."
  }
 ]
}