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Inside Asia’s oldest private library, guarding ancient scrolls in the age of AI_我的网站

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    Visitors view ancient documents at Tianyige Museum. Photo: Courtesy of Tianyige Museum
Huang Gang is in his fifties. Every day, he sits before a computer screen at Tianyige Museum (Tianyige), flipping through ancient books - digitally.
As director of the information technology department at Tianyige Museum in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province, home to Asia's oldest surviving private library and one of the world's three oldest remaining family-run libraries, his job title may seem far removed from old books. Yet his work centers on them: converting brittle, thread-bound antique volumes into searchable, zoomable digital files accessible on screen.
For years, Tianyige has carried out digitization in batches guided by its mission: rescue-oriented preservation, scholarly organization and public-oriented outreach. Its teams have scanned more than 3.4 million pages of ancient texts. The institution rolled out its Ancient‑Book Digital Service Platform back in 2009. By 2025, the platform had drawn over 4.6 million total visits.
To outsiders, this might look like a headlong rush into digitization. For Huang and his colleagues, it is delicate work balanced between fast‑evolving artificial intelligence models and the reverence owed to fragile paper relics. "Technology is a tool, ancient books are artifacts, and reading is the ultimate purpose," Huang told the Global Times.
    Huang Gang, director of the information technology department of Tianyige Museum, works on the digitization of ancient books. Photo: Courtesy of Tianyige Museum
Beyond tech boundaries
Deep in the storage vaults of Tianyige, tens of thousands of ancient volumes rest in silence. Some pages are curled and fragile; others bear faded script -the accumulated marks of centuries. Vulnerable to aging, wear and external damage, these precious paper relics can hardly sustain long-term repeated manual consultation, making digital preservation an indispensable way to inherit ancient book resources. 
Huang's daily work involves leading his team in the digitization of the library's entire collection of ancient books, paintings and cultural relics, bringing rare treasures out of the shadows and into public view.
AI now serves as a core auxiliary tool for ancient-book digitization and research. Huang's group initially built character-recognition frameworks based on optical-character-recognition technology. By cross-checking outputs across different models, ancient Chinese characters, damaged script and blurry handwriting.
According to Zhejiang Daily, by August 2025, the Tianyige's digital platform had added over 3,700 new digitized book sets, lifting its total digital holdings past 20,000 volumes. 
Digitization is never  a purely technical exercise;  in-depth scholarly expertise in ancient texts remains indispensable. Huang frequently collaborates with Zhao Xuteng, a museum librarian specializing in classical literature. Zhao is responsible for selecting which volumes to digitize, evaluating editions, studying content, and identifying works of significant academic or public value. While one team focuses on the technical execution, another digs deep into the textual substance, ensuring that cold digital capture remains faithful to the historical and bibliographic logic of the originals.
    A staff member of Tianyige Museum view digital resources of ancient documents in the museum's ancient book reading room, on August 18, 2026. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi/GT
Staying true to  reading
When he is not writing code, Huang keeps asking one fundamental question: What should technology actually do for people? "All technology ultimately serves the act of reading itself," he said. "It can never replace that."
With the rapid rise of large language models, demand for high-quality text corpora has surged. Overseas, some AI companies have reportedly purchased millions of printed books in bulk, scanned them and then shredded the originals. 
"Machines can efficiently compile documents, retrieve sources and generate explanatory notes. Real engagement with ancient texts, however, is far more than mechanical assembly of characters," Huang noted.
Both Huang and Zhao stressed that human beings sit at the heart of cultural inheritance. People absorb wisdom from old texts, draw on personal experience and scholarship to reflect, and produce new knowledge - an intellectual process no AI can fully replicate.
The Global Times learned that every digitization workflow at Tianyige follows strict closed-loop protocols: collection checkout logging, noncontact scanning, AI-powered quality checks, precise image stitching and compliant online publication. The full procedure minimizes physical wear on original artifacts.
"A book is, first and foremost, a cultural relic that carries a thousand-year legacy," Huang said. "Only secondarily is it a text to be read." That principle, he added, is shared by all guardians at Tianyige.
"Media change, technologies evolve, but the essence of reading has never changed," he stressed.
Today, drawing on its comprehensive digital collections, Tianyige hosts monthly exhibitions of rare texts and organizes family reading events where parents and children explore the classics together. For Huang and his colleagues, the most gratifying reward is watching more and more ordinary people develop a love for ancient reading and a deeper appreciation for the traditional Chinese culture.
In an era swept by artificial intelligence, Tianyige's guardians tend to fragile paper relics while leveraging modern technology, preserving the genuine power of reading. More than 450 years of scholarly heritage flows onward, passing between human fingertips and glowing digital screens.
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二 |     英伟达在过去一年中极其亮眼的盈利表现，不仅无形中抬高了华尔街对它的期望，也拉高了所谓“业绩超预期”的门槛，这使得该股陷入了一个令许多投资者感到困扰的“魔咒”：每逢英伟达公布季报后，越来越难有正面的股价回应……     这家总部位于加州圣克拉拉的芯片巨头，将于周三美股收盘后公布2027财年第二季业绩。    如下图所示，在过去四个季度中，尽管其每股收益、营收以及未来业绩指引均达到或超越了市场预期，但其股价在财报发布次日，却无一例外地出现了下跌。          甚至在英伟达财报发布三周之后，其股价往往都无法走出泥潭。         据Bespoke Data数据显示，过去一年间，除了去年第二季度仅达到指引预期外，英伟达的所有主要业绩指标其实均超出了市场预期。然而，其股价在财报发布翌日却仍遭到投资者抛售。    “当我考虑英伟达的业绩指引时，我也会考虑到这样一个事实：过去大约三年里，他们一直都在超预期……因此，无论他们给出怎样的指引，市场在心理上都已经默认其最终表现会比指引更进一步，”韦德布什证券分析师Matthew Bryson周一表示。    而眼下尤为关键的是，整场人工智能基础设施建设的沉重押注，如今几乎全系于英伟达一身——该公司不仅被视作无可替代的主导性硬件供应商，甚至还扮演着行业“出资人”的角色。

三 |     问题在于，英伟达在财报日究竟能做些什么来真正打动投资者？     独挑大梁     据FactSet数据显示，华尔街目前预计英伟达第二财季每股收益为2.09美元，第二财季营收为922亿美元。Cantor Fitzgerald在周六的一份报告中则强调，市场对英伟达第三财季营收的共识预期已达1037亿美元。    分析人士表示，在市场预期早已高度透支的情况下，英伟达或许只有再次交出超越极限的答卷，才能赢得资本市场的掌声。    Rosenblatt Securities分析师Kevin Cassidy周一表示：“如果第三财季的营收指引能够突破1050亿美元，对市场而言将是个极大的惊喜；而一旦达到1100亿美元，那就是绝对爆炸性的表现了。

四 | ”     此外，相比于将利润持续砸回AI建设的无限投入中，如果公司能释放出将更多盈利回馈给股东的信号，或许能从华尔街那里赢得更多的赞美。     Cassidy补充道：“如果财报数据未能惊艳全场，我们密切关注的另一个催化剂，将是他们是否会兑现承诺——将50%的自由现金流用于股票回购和提高分红。

五 | ”     英伟达在6月举行年度股东大会时，公司创始人兼首席执行官黄仁勋曾表示，基于对可持续市场增长和自由现金流生成能力的信心，我们计划在今年、明年以及更长期内，向股东返还50%或更多自由现金流，并随着时间推移继续提高股票回购和股息。    Cassidy将英伟达资本结构的潜在变化，比作苹果公司在其标志性产品iPhone增长开始放缓后所做的选择。他指出，“当大家对iPhone的增长数据逐渐脱敏后，苹果曾开启过大举回购，我认为英伟达接下来很可能会重演这一幕。

六 | ”     此外，关于英伟达最新AI芯片平台Vera Rubin的消息也可能影响股价，尽管行业专家对其短期内的实际应用场景存有疑问，因为该平台的技术能力似乎远超当前可实现的商业需求。    “它的存在很酷，我也喜欢阅读这类新闻。但至于谁会使用它、用户是否愿意付费、以及愿意支付多少——所有这些问题目前都悬而未决，”德勤前首席云战略官David Linthicum表示。    最后，无论英伟达股价在本次财报发布后如何演绎，这组最新业绩数据都将成为全场焦点，并实时折射出由AI浪潮所推动的全球股市的健康状况。    正如Benchmark StoneX软件行业分析师Yi Fu Lee所言：“英伟达毫无疑问是整个AI行业的风向标。它也是我观察所有SaaS概念股的晴雨表，因为它的表现直接反映了半导体领域对GPU的真实需求是否依然强劲。”     

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