I built a Chrome extension to tackle my own information overload problem. I wanted a quick way to summarize articles, YouTube videos, and even PDFs, but I didn't want to be locked into a single AI ecosystem.
So, I created AI Summarizer. It's a simple, free tool that lets you choose from 17 different AI models to get the job done.
*The main idea is flexibility. You can use:*
* *OpenAI:* ChatGPT\n* *Google:* Gemini, Google AI Studio\n* *Anthropic:* Claude\n* *xAI:* Grok\n* *And 12 others:* Mistral, Cohere (Command), DeepSeek, Qwen (Alibaba), Hunyuan (Tencent), Doubao (ByteDance), ERNIE (Baidu), Kimi, GLM (Zhipu AI), Spark (iFlytek), MiniMax, and SenseNova.
This is especially useful if you want to compare outputs, use a model that's better for a specific language, or just prefer a non-OpenAI option.
*Here\u2019s what it does:*
* *Summarizes webpages:* Just click the icon.\n* *Summarizes YouTube & Bilibili videos:* As long as they have subtitles.\n* *Summarizes local PDFs.*\n* *Summarizes selected text:* Highlight any text on a page for a focused summary.\n* *Customizable:* You can edit the prompts it uses.
*Why I'm sharing this here:*
* *It's completely free.* No ads, no sign-up required for the extension itself. You just need to be logged into the AI provider you choose to use.\n* *Privacy-focused:* It works directly in your browser.\n* I'm looking for feedback from a tech-savvy community like this one. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what works, what doesn't, and what other AI models you'd like to see supported.
You can grab it from the Chrome Web Store here:\nhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-summarizer-web-youtube/dcohpcjocgijndjcachlifniaendimid
Thanks for checking it out. I'll be around to answer any questions."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I built a free Chrome extension to summarize anything with 17 AI models"}},"_tags":["story","author_huizhu","story_45219899","ask_hn"],"author":"huizhu","created_at":"2025-09-12T08:13:56Z","created_at_i":1757664836,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"45219899","points":2,"story_id":45219899,"story_text":"Hi HN,
I built a Chrome extension to tackle my own information overload problem. I wanted a quick way to summarize articles, YouTube videos, and even PDFs, but I didn't want to be locked into a single AI ecosystem.
So, I created AI Summarizer. It's a simple, free tool that lets you choose from 17 different AI models to get the job done.
*The main idea is flexibility. You can use:*
* *OpenAI:* ChatGPT\n* *Google:* Gemini, Google AI Studio\n* *Anthropic:* Claude\n* *xAI:* Grok\n* *And 12 others:* Mistral, Cohere (Command), DeepSeek, Qwen (Alibaba), Hunyuan (Tencent), Doubao (ByteDance), ERNIE (Baidu), Kimi, GLM (Zhipu AI), Spark (iFlytek), MiniMax, and SenseNova.
This is especially useful if you want to compare outputs, use a model that's better for a specific language, or just prefer a non-OpenAI option.
*Here\u2019s what it does:*
* *Summarizes webpages:* Just click the icon.\n* *Summarizes YouTube & Bilibili videos:* As long as they have subtitles.\n* *Summarizes local PDFs.*\n* *Summarizes selected text:* Highlight any text on a page for a focused summary.\n* *Customizable:* You can edit the prompts it uses.
*Why I'm sharing this here:*
* *It's completely free.* No ads, no sign-up required for the extension itself. You just need to be logged into the AI provider you choose to use.\n* *Privacy-focused:* It works directly in your browser.\n* I'm looking for feedback from a tech-savvy community like this one. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what works, what doesn't, and what other AI models you'd like to see supported.
You can grab it from the Chrome Web Store here:\nhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-summarizer-web-youtube/dcohpcjocgijndjcachlifniaendimid
Thanks for checking it out. I'll be around to answer any questions.","title":"I built a free Chrome extension to summarize anything with 17 AI models","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:39:35Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"Huh, when XHToken released a model named Spark, I assumed it was just a name collision, since iFlytek appears nowhere in the documentation. But on iFlytek's model marketplace, it's listed as their self-developed model: https://maas.xfyun.cn/modelSquare So they actually released an open model quite recently! Thanks for letting me know."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Mistral Large 4"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\\"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_49977979"],"author":"yorwba","comment_text":"Huh, when XHToken released a model named Spark, I assumed it was just a name collision, since iFlytek appears nowhere in the documentation. But on iFlytek's model marketplace, it's listed as their self-developed model: https://maas.xfyun.cn/modelSquare So they actually released an open model quite recently! Thanks for letting me know.","created_at":"2026-10-06T18:35:22Z","created_at_i":1791311722,"objectID":"49982296","parent_id":49981825,"story_id":49977979,"story_title":"Mistral Large 4","story_url":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\\","updated_at":"2026-10-06T18:39:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"juiceland"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"That\u2019s because Baidu sells model access and iFlytek sells integrated products. Also both have released open models, just older ones. They just close their latest ones because they got the reputation they needed out of them and have transitioned to a product. Notice that both of these explain the motivation without resorting to unfalsifiable claims about "economic warfare"."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Mistral Large 4"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\\"}},"_tags":["comment","author_juiceland","story_49977979"],"author":"juiceland","children":[49982296],"comment_text":"That\u2019s because Baidu sells model access and iFlytek sells integrated products. Also both have released open models, just older ones. They just close their latest ones because they got the reputation they needed out of them and have transitioned to a product. Notice that both of these explain the motivation without resorting to unfalsifiable claims about "economic warfare".","created_at":"2026-10-06T17:52:58Z","created_at_i":1791309178,"objectID":"49981825","parent_id":49981325,"story_id":49977979,"story_title":"Mistral Large 4","story_url":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\\","updated_at":"2026-10-07T00:50:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"They do have a choice, as evidenced by all the times when the other option gets picked. The article you link tries to acknowledge ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen Max as exceptions, but forgets about Baidu's Ernie and iFlytek's Spark, which are also closed-weight. There's simply no consensus yet on which strategy is better, so different companies end up making different bets."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Mistral Large 4"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\\"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_49977979"],"author":"yorwba","children":[49981825],"comment_text":"They do have a choice, as evidenced by all the times when the other option gets picked. The article you link tries to acknowledge ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen Max as exceptions, but forgets about Baidu's Ernie and iFlytek's Spark, which are also closed-weight. There's simply no consensus yet on which strategy is better, so different companies end up making different bets.","created_at":"2026-10-06T17:11:33Z","created_at_i":1791306693,"objectID":"49981325","parent_id":49978894,"story_id":49977979,"story_title":"Mistral Large 4","story_url":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\\","updated_at":"2026-10-06T18:20:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"It's a bad explanation because it assumes decision making about LLM releases is centralized in the CCP even though every AI lab has a different strategy. Some publish LLM research with small models but seem to be staying out of the race to the frontier (Weibo), some train large models but publish few research details and no weights (Bytedance, iFlyTek), some decide on a case-by-case basis what they publish or not (Alibaba, Baidu), ...
There is no rule that every Chinese LLM company must open-source their models, and many don't."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The AI Race Just Got Awkward"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_49910553"],"author":"yorwba","children":[49913759],"comment_text":"It's a bad explanation because it assumes decision making about LLM releases is centralized in the CCP even though every AI lab has a different strategy. Some publish LLM research with small models but seem to be staying out of the race to the frontier (Weibo), some train large models but publish few research details and no weights (Bytedance, iFlyTek), some decide on a case-by-case basis what they publish or not (Alibaba, Baidu), ...
There is no rule that every Chinese LLM company must open-source their models, and many don't.","created_at":"2026-09-30T18:07:18Z","created_at_i":1790791638,"objectID":"49912330","parent_id":49911099,"story_id":49910553,"story_title":"The AI Race Just Got Awkward","story_url":"https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/","updated_at":"2026-10-15T00:07:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"There is no such mandate. ByteDance keeps their models closed. So does iFlyTek. Qwen Max is closed as well."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_48814170"],"author":"yorwba","children":[48876975],"comment_text":"There is no such mandate. ByteDance keeps their models closed. So does iFlyTek. Qwen Max is closed as well.","created_at":"2026-07-11T12:45:07Z","created_at_i":1783773907,"objectID":"48871575","parent_id":48867971,"story_id":48814170,"story_title":"Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit","story_url":"https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference","updated_at":"2026-07-12T00:24:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"If you think Chinese companies always act as a bloc, your mental model needs to get about a billion times more detailed. But in this case just a few details may be enough: There are Chinese AI companies that have released LLMs without publishing the weights.
ByteDance is going the direct-to-consumer route with their Doubao chatbot (the most popular in China, probably thanks to their social media prowess). iFlyTek seems to be angling for enterprise and government use cases, where they already have an in.
The companies that have released weights have in common that they didn't have a monetization channel lined up and their models weren't good enough to make people pay attention with just API access. (You can see with Qwen Max that the calculus can change towards not releasing weights for better models.)
And who exactly among the investors is having their complement commoditized? When Nvidia releases Nemotron, the story is clear, but it's less obvious for say Z.ai's GLM."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Google Books (or similar) all book scans \u2013 $200k bounty (2025)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_48786838"],"author":"yorwba","children":[48789444],"comment_text":"If you think Chinese companies always act as a bloc, your mental model needs to get about a billion times more detailed. But in this case just a few details may be enough: There are Chinese AI companies that have released LLMs without publishing the weights.
ByteDance is going the direct-to-consumer route with their Doubao chatbot (the most popular in China, probably thanks to their social media prowess). iFlyTek seems to be angling for enterprise and government use cases, where they already have an in.
The companies that have released weights have in common that they didn't have a monetization channel lined up and their models weren't good enough to make people pay attention with just API access. (You can see with Qwen Max that the calculus can change towards not releasing weights for better models.)
And who exactly among the investors is having their complement commoditized? When Nvidia releases Nemotron, the story is clear, but it's less obvious for say Z.ai's GLM.","created_at":"2026-07-04T20:48:22Z","created_at_i":1783198102,"objectID":"48788933","parent_id":48787417,"story_id":48786838,"story_title":"Google Books (or similar) all book scans \u2013 $200k bounty (2025)","story_url":"https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234","updated_at":"2026-07-05T12:08:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"skeptic_ai"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"It\u2019s even more funny how this blew in their faces. They even advertised pretty much all providers on hackernews home page. Here is in case you missed in the article
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const labKeywords = [\n "deepseek",\n "moonshot",\n "minimax",\n "xaminim",\n "zhipu",\n "bigmodel",\n "baichuan",\n "stepfun",\n "01ai",\n "dashscope",\n "volces",\n]","created_at":"2026-06-30T17:00:52Z","created_at_i":1782838852,"objectID":"48735674","parent_id":48735460,"story_id":48734373,"story_title":"Claude Code is steganographically marking requests","story_url":"https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography","updated_at":"2026-07-05T12:52:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"All of the reasons in the article also apply to Chinese companies. If a Chinese model becomes good enough to make it significantly easier to hack Chinese government servers, do you think they'll allow random people unfettered access to it?
The economic pressures are the same, too. Currently, Chinese models are offered for cheap or in some cases provide weights for free because that's the only way to gain traction. (That closed-weight releases by Baidu, Bytedance, iFlyTek etc. hardly generate any buzz bears that out, as does the fact that when Alibaba does a closed-weight release, someone always gets confused because they associate the Qwen brand with open models.) At some point, their investors are going to want profits, not just user counts. That means higher prices, or no more new models.
If there's no secret sauce and all you need is scale, that would actually be kind of the worst-case scenario for catching up to the frontier, since scaling is expensive and the frontier model companies have easier access to capital as well as higher revenues."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_48143284"],"author":"yorwba","children":[48146352],"comment_text":"All of the reasons in the article also apply to Chinese companies. If a Chinese model becomes good enough to make it significantly easier to hack Chinese government servers, do you think they'll allow random people unfettered access to it?
The economic pressures are the same, too. Currently, Chinese models are offered for cheap or in some cases provide weights for free because that's the only way to gain traction. (That closed-weight releases by Baidu, Bytedance, iFlyTek etc. hardly generate any buzz bears that out, as does the fact that when Alibaba does a closed-weight release, someone always gets confused because they associate the Qwen brand with open models.) At some point, their investors are going to want profits, not just user counts. That means higher prices, or no more new models.
If there's no secret sauce and all you need is scale, that would actually be kind of the worst-case scenario for catching up to the frontier, since scaling is expensive and the frontier model companies have easier access to capital as well as higher revenues.","created_at":"2026-05-15T09:05:13Z","created_at_i":1778835913,"objectID":"48146270","parent_id":48144692,"story_id":48143284,"story_title":"Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints","story_url":"https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off","updated_at":"2026-05-21T08:13:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yorwba"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"The CCP controlling the government doesn't mean they micromanage everything. Some Chinese AI companies release the weights of even their best models (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI), others release weights for small models, but not the largest ones (Alibaba, Baidu), some keep almost everything closed (Bytedance and iFlytek, I think).
There is no CCP master plan for open models, any more than there is a Western master plan for ignoring Chinese models only available as an API."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Claude 4.5 Opus\u2019 Soul Document"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yorwba","story_46125184"],"author":"yorwba","children":[46127829,46129839],"comment_text":"The CCP controlling the government doesn't mean they micromanage everything. Some Chinese AI companies release the weights of even their best models (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI), others release weights for small models, but not the largest ones (Alibaba, Baidu), some keep almost everything closed (Bytedance and iFlytek, I think).
There is no CCP master plan for open models, any more than there is a Western master plan for ignoring Chinese models only available as an API.","created_at":"2025-12-02T22:14:42Z","created_at_i":1764713682,"objectID":"46127668","parent_id":46126824,"story_id":46125184,"story_title":"Claude 4.5 Opus\u2019 Soul Document","story_url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:05:57Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"luolink"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"I recently watched an AI expert on stage enthusiastically proclaiming that "AI will liberate human productivity" to thunderous applause. Sitting at my desk, staring at the 37th "Essential AI Tools You Must Learn" popup of the day, I couldn't help but think: Give me a break. I'm ten times more exhausted now than I ever was before.
An Endless Stream of New Tools and Sleepless Anxiety Nights\nI remember when I first encountered AI tools. When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, I was as excited as an explorer discovering a new continent. I spent an entire weekend mastering prompt engineering techniques, convinced I was finally riding the wave of the future.
And then what happened?
A month later, GPT-4 launched. All those prompt strategies I'd painstakingly learned suddenly felt outdated.
Two months later, Claude appeared, supposedly superior for writing tasks.
Three months later, Midjourney updated to V6, rendering all my carefully memorized parameters obsolete.
Four months later, domestic large language models sprouted like mushrooms after rain \u2014 Wenxin Yiyan, Tongyi Qianwen, iFlytek Spark... each claiming to "better understand Chinese."
My bookmarks folder now houses 128 AI tool websites. From writing to image generation, coding to video creation, data analysis to presentation design. Every single one has been shared by someone on social media with the caption "Don't learn this and you'll fall behind!"
The most maddening part? These tools update faster than I change my underwear. Just when I've familiarized myself with an interface, it gets redesigned overnight. Just when I've memorized a workflow, next week brings "revolutionary new features."
My morning routine no longer starts with coffee"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"AI Efficiency? Give Me a Break"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://luolink.substack.com/p/ai-efficiency-give-me-a-break"}},"_tags":["comment","author_luolink","story_44897682"],"author":"luolink","children":[44898104,44898547,44898572,44898573],"comment_text":"I recently watched an AI expert on stage enthusiastically proclaiming that "AI will liberate human productivity" to thunderous applause. Sitting at my desk, staring at the 37th "Essential AI Tools You Must Learn" popup of the day, I couldn't help but think: Give me a break. I'm ten times more exhausted now than I ever was before.
An Endless Stream of New Tools and Sleepless Anxiety Nights\nI remember when I first encountered AI tools. When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, I was as excited as an explorer discovering a new continent. I spent an entire weekend mastering prompt engineering techniques, convinced I was finally riding the wave of the future.
And then what happened?
A month later, GPT-4 launched. All those prompt strategies I'd painstakingly learned suddenly felt outdated.
Two months later, Claude appeared, supposedly superior for writing tasks.
Three months later, Midjourney updated to V6, rendering all my carefully memorized parameters obsolete.
Four months later, domestic large language models sprouted like mushrooms after rain \u2014 Wenxin Yiyan, Tongyi Qianwen, iFlytek Spark... each claiming to "better understand Chinese."
My bookmarks folder now houses 128 AI tool websites. From writing to image generation, coding to video creation, data analysis to presentation design. Every single one has been shared by someone on social media with the caption "Don't learn this and you'll fall behind!"
The most maddening part? These tools update faster than I change my underwear. Just when I've familiarized myself with an interface, it gets redesigned overnight. Just when I've memorized a workflow, next week brings "revolutionary new features."
My morning routine no longer starts with coffee","created_at":"2025-08-14T07:23:34Z","created_at_i":1755156214,"objectID":"44897683","parent_id":44897682,"story_id":44897682,"story_title":"AI Efficiency? Give Me a Break","story_url":"https://luolink.substack.com/p/ai-efficiency-give-me-a-break","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:35:27Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"tomp"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":""every"
you're missing a lot
TTS: 11labs, PlayHT, Cartesia, iFLYTEK, AWS Polly, Deepgram Aura
STT: Deepgram (multiple models, including Whisper), Gladia Whisper, Soniox
just off the top of my head (it's my dayjob!)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Countless.dev \u2013 A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://countless.dev/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_tomp","story_42348513"],"author":"tomp","comment_text":""every"
you're missing a lot
TTS: 11labs, PlayHT, Cartesia, iFLYTEK, AWS Polly, Deepgram Aura
STT: Deepgram (multiple models, including Whisper), Gladia Whisper, Soniox
just off the top of my head (it's my dayjob!)","created_at":"2024-12-07T19:53:37Z","created_at_i":1733601217,"objectID":"42352367","parent_id":42348513,"story_id":42348513,"story_title":"Show HN: Countless.dev \u2013 A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs","story_url":"https://countless.dev/","updated_at":"2024-12-07T19:57:13Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"miki123211"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"> In this report, we analyze Tencent\u2019s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese input method with over 455 million monthly active users and versions of the app for multiple platforms, including Windows, Android, and iOS. Sogou Input Method accounts for 70% of Chinese input method users, with products by iFlytek and Baidu taking second and third place, respectively.\nThis part is surprising to me. Are the Chinese input methods provided directly by the operating systems not enough? I'm surprised that Microsoft, Apple et al provide such a sub-par service in China that over 450 million people were bothered enough to install a third-party keyboard."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"\u201cPlease do not make it public\u201d (Tencent\u2019s Sogou Input Method)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_miki123211","story_37063568"],"author":"miki123211","children":[37068893,37068994,37069063,37069354],"comment_text":"> In this report, we analyze Tencent\u2019s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese input method with over 455 million monthly active users and versions of the app for multiple platforms, including Windows, Android, and iOS. Sogou Input Method accounts for 70% of Chinese input method users, with products by iFlytek and Baidu taking second and third place, respectively.\nThis part is surprising to me. Are the Chinese input methods provided directly by the operating systems not enough? I'm surprised that Microsoft, Apple et al provide such a sub-par service in China that over 450 million people were bothered enough to install a third-party keyboard.","created_at":"2023-08-09T21:40:02Z","created_at_i":1691617202,"objectID":"37068815","parent_id":37063568,"story_id":37063568,"story_title":"\u201cPlease do not make it public\u201d (Tencent\u2019s Sogou Input Method)","story_url":"https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:51:59Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sithadmin"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"Entanglement with iFlytek alone is potentially problematic for Apple and Google, who are distributing this on their respective platforms, because iFlytek is on the BIS Entity List. US persons and businesses are prohibited from business relations with these entities without prior approval and license from the US federal government, and this process is quite onerous and expensive in terms of the specialized legal talent required.
As a casual observer on the fringes of trade and sanctions law, my gut tells me this case alone will probably not result in administrative action (and certainly not criminal) against Google or Apple by the US gov, but may contribute to opening a new can of worms with regard to app review, either self-imposed by the platforms or under pressure by the US government."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Official Beijing2022 apps silently collect audio"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/1486458526767661060"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sithadmin","story_30111237"],"author":"sithadmin","comment_text":"Entanglement with iFlytek alone is potentially problematic for Apple and Google, who are distributing this on their respective platforms, because iFlytek is on the BIS Entity List. US persons and businesses are prohibited from business relations with these entities without prior approval and license from the US federal government, and this process is quite onerous and expensive in terms of the specialized legal talent required.
As a casual observer on the fringes of trade and sanctions law, my gut tells me this case alone will probably not result in administrative action (and certainly not criminal) against Google or Apple by the US gov, but may contribute to opening a new can of worms with regard to app review, either self-imposed by the platforms or under pressure by the US government.","created_at":"2022-01-28T13:50:16Z","created_at_i":1643377816,"objectID":"30114519","parent_id":30113826,"story_id":30111237,"story_title":"Official Beijing2022 apps silently collect audio","story_url":"https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/1486458526767661060","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:21:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"berdario"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"Those claims seem unsubstantiated
https://twitter.com/dangoodin001/status/1486976676965715968
ok, it's importing iFlytek. But without demonstrating what it's doing and when, even if it's listening (which is not clear if it's happening) it could just be listening for a wake word (just like Cortana, Google Assistant, etc. work)
Moreover, this guy seems to have willfully mistranslated the EULA to pretend that it's doing something it isn't doing.
https://twitter.com/rpotter_9/status/1486982536232587264
Whoever implemented the app though, should've kept it simple. Adding more needless functionality is just going to drive sinophobes and conspiracy theorists in a frenzy"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Official Beijing2022 apps silently collect audio"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/1486458526767661060"}},"_tags":["comment","author_berdario","story_30111237"],"author":"berdario","children":[30114014,30114519,30116121],"comment_text":"Those claims seem unsubstantiated
https://twitter.com/dangoodin001/status/1486976676965715968
ok, it's importing iFlytek. But without demonstrating what it's doing and when, even if it's listening (which is not clear if it's happening) it could just be listening for a wake word (just like Cortana, Google Assistant, etc. work)
Moreover, this guy seems to have willfully mistranslated the EULA to pretend that it's doing something it isn't doing.
https://twitter.com/rpotter_9/status/1486982536232587264
Whoever implemented the app though, should've kept it simple. Adding more needless functionality is just going to drive sinophobes and conspiracy theorists in a frenzy","created_at":"2022-01-28T12:38:15Z","created_at_i":1643373495,"objectID":"30113826","parent_id":30111237,"story_id":30111237,"story_title":"Official Beijing2022 apps silently collect audio","story_url":"https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/1486458526767661060","updated_at":"2026-01-19T13:21:43Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"AndrewOMartin"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["iflytek"],"value":"> This repo directly correlates with a report I will be releasing Jan 24th, 2022.
Does anyone have the link?
I checked their twitter and couldn't see it. Though their (current) latest tweet is "After reverse engineering all of the #Beijing2022 #spyware app for @Apple #ios and @Google #Android I can definitively say all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers using tech from USA blacklisted AI firm @iflytek1999"."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Decompiled 2022 Beijing Olympics Apps"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing"}},"_tags":["comment","author_AndrewOMartin","story_30097371"],"author":"AndrewOMartin","comment_text":"> This repo directly correlates with a report I will be releasing Jan 24th, 2022.
Does anyone have the link?
I checked their twitter and couldn't see it. Though their (current) latest tweet is "After reverse engineering all of the #Beijing2022 #spyware app for @Apple #ios and @Google #Android I can definitively say all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers using tech from USA blacklisted AI firm @iflytek1999".","created_at":"2022-01-27T09:42:09Z","created_at_i":1643276529,"objectID":"30098294","parent_id":30097371,"story_id":30097371,"story_title":"Decompiled 2022 Beijing Olympics Apps","story_url":"https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:24:44Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":51,"nbPages":3,"page":0,"params":"query=iflytek&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":12,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":16},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":5,"total":5},"total":5},"total":5},"fetch":{"query":5,"total":6},"total":12},"query":"iflytek","serverTimeMS":15}