// ABOUT THE SHOW
BUILT FORHONG KONG'SAICOMMUNITY.
We got tired of waiting for the big conferences and the LinkedIn posts. Hong Kong has incredible AI talent — people doing genuinely interesting work in research, fintech, robotics, spatial computing, healthcare, culture, and everything in between.
This show is about finding them and asking the questions nobody else is asking. How did you actually get here? What broke? What surprised you? What does the local scene feel like from where you’re standing?
// LATEST EPISODES
New episodes every Monday, 6AM HKT
Everyone in AI Sounds the Same
Christian Masset · Communication coach, Peak Communication
Google Analytics for the Real World
Steve Walsh · CTO, Smart Retail
Google, Alibaba, and the New Production Relations
Jason Xu · Founder, PrepPal · ex-Google, ex-Alibaba
The Recovering AI Skeptic
Daniel Sarosi · Founder, Great Wall Connect
Compliance AI, Improv, and Running Your Own Models
Andy Green · Founder, Three Points Compliance
Apple Park, AI as Clay & Saying No
Hanley Leung · Founder, Taiso AI · Lunatechs HK
// LATEST FROM THE BLOG
All articles →I held a legacy Cursor plan for a year. Its own docs say it expires at my next renewal
500 requests a month, then usage-based billing, then an apology with unlimited Auto attached — then Auto metered five weeks later. A sourced timeline of every Cursor pricing change since 2025, and what a grandfathered seat is actually worth now: less than a new one.
My Claude Code quota died. I finished the week on Qwen Cloud — and it cost me exactly this much
When my Claude Code quota died mid-week, I pointed it at Qwen Cloud's Token Plan and kept working. The console gave me receipts: 356 million tokens in one day, one 403, and a one-line env var quietly deciding half the bill.
Taste, Judgment & Building AI Products: What We Learned at the Snowball Panel
At Snowball Asia's April 2026 event in Hong Kong, two AI practitioners with very different backgrounds talked about why payments took two months, agentic features took two days, and why taste is the hardest thing to teach.
The Hong Kong AI Wall: Which US AI Tools Block HK and Why
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all block Hong Kong from their AI services. Here's exactly what's blocked, what still works, and what HK developers are doing about it.
// THE CREW
Tanya
Main Host
The voice and vision of the show. Tanya brings curiosity, warmth, and a gift for asking the questions that get to the heart of things.
Aug
Co-Host
Jumps in when the conversation needs a different angle. Practitioner background — doesn’t shy away from the technical deep end.
Ricky
Director of Photography
The eye behind the lens. Ricky makes sure every conversation looks as good as it sounds — no studio, no problem.
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