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Joe Tsai on AI

2 quotes from Joe Tsai on the wall, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include South China Morning Post, transformernews.ai. Topics: money, politics, hype. Open on the wall.

1. 2026

2. You don't want to feed it into some closed-source API

   News10 October 2026South China Morning Post#money#politics

   Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai, at the Wave tech event in Italy in October 2026, urging European manufacturers to keep their data out of closed-source AI systems.

   Open-source AI is Europe’s only path to tech independence, says Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai

3. 2025

4. I start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble

   News28 March 2025transformernews.ai#money#hype

   Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai commented on AI data center spending, quoted in Transformer newsletter, March 2025.

   Google breaks its promises