China is producing research in a number of areas right now that is surpassing the West and arguably more impressive scientifically than producing top LLMs.
A big reason China is lagging a little bit might be political interference at major tech companies. Xi Jinping instigated a major crackdown recently.
There is also significantly less Chinese text data. I am not a China or tech expert so these sre just guesses.
In any case, I wouldn’t assign it to much significance. The AI space is just moving so quickly that even a minor year delay can seem like lightyears. But that doesnt mean that Chinese companies cant so it or that a country-continent with 1,4 billion people and a history of many technological firsts cant scale up a transformer.
China is producing research in a number of areas right now that is surpassing the West and arguably more impressive scientifically than producing top LLMs.
A big reason China is lagging a little bit might be political interference at major tech companies. Xi Jinping instigated a major crackdown recently. There is also significantly less Chinese text data. I am not a China or tech expert so these sre just guesses.
In any case, I wouldn’t assign it to much significance. The AI space is just moving so quickly that even a minor year delay can seem like lightyears. But that doesnt mean that Chinese companies cant so it or that a country-continent with 1,4 billion people and a history of many technological firsts cant scale up a transformer.