The world outside the US is increasingly driving Chinese electric vehicles, scrolling the web on Chinese smartphones and powering their homes with Chinese solar panels.
The world outside the US is increasingly driving Chinese electric vehicles, scrolling the web on Chinese smartphones and powering their homes with Chinese solar panels.
Even less clear is Chinese advancements in AI — regarded as one of the key determinants of future economic and geopolitical power. While OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Google continue to publicize new AI developments and support a thriving startup ecosystem, Chinese companies like Baidu Inc. labor under chip and data-content restrictions, and have yet to show evidence of significant breakthroughs.
I hope that in my lifetime all of this tech hype will be proven false and I won't have to read about it anymore. I usually don't read the whole article this is doing some serious damage to me. The least they could do is name specifically how this "AI" technology has influenced "future economic and geopolitical power" beyond supporting...startup ecosystems???? Oops, all signifiers!!
"AI" is another monopoly moonshot. Its main promise for capital, aside from being an excuse for layoffs, is the possibility of becoming the only shp in town when it comes to certain activities.
One example is the stock imagery industry. People started using "AI" for this immediately, even when it sucks at it. Replacing the need for hundreds of thousands of people to simulate a ton of different situations, you could just synthesize something comparable. But just "automating" this is not the real end goal. It is to become the exclusive monopoly company on stock images, to create a huge war chest of IPs about the topic so that you can charge massive amounts of economic rent. Stock images would soon become more expensive, not less.
China will be fine so long as this tendency can be resisted internationally. If the above scenario happens, it be another WTO IP fight on slightly different terms.
Another possibility is that piracy and/or open source nerds prevent those monopolies from ever taking hold because once models are trained, deploying them isn't actually that resource-intensive. If there is a "good enough" free stock image generator it will make it very difficult for a monopoly to take complete control.
So these companies are basically betting everything on nobody being able to compete with them, mostly because they have large datasets they won't share.
Which is also weird, because Alibaba has a very good open source LLM called qwen which outperforms llama and Mistral in coding tasks.
We are the hermit country.
The one advantage of the auto industry leaving Australia, is that the government isn’t fighting the influx of EVs from China to protect the local industry like the US and Europe is.
I think the MG4 is the first sub-$20k USD proper EV in Australia. Thanks Catholic conservative nut Abbott for signing a free trade agreement with China I guess
My friend bought an MG4 and it’s fantastic. I bought the ZS EV a couple of years ago and am very happy with it, but I would have gotten the MG4 if it was available at the time
xiaomi gang
Westoids malding
I don’t think the USSR ever had anything close to the level of soft power China currently has. To the point where even NATO residents are wanting their products like TikTok, Wukong, and Genshin Impact.
“They are cheating by actually doing things.” –America
A lot of cope in this.
The CEO of Ford is currently driving a Xiaomi SU7. Must be nice to be rich enough to just import a high end Chinese car at will.
Meanwhile I am scrolling the internet from within the US on a Chinese smartphone
while this is good for falling US power, a new power in capitalist consumer products isnt really a good thing. Of course i dont think that china should stop, the US should be the one to do something to eliminate consumerism if they want change.
god i miss the soviet union, the cold war would probably have been over already if they were still around
I miss USSR as well, but we are where we are unfortunately. I do hope China is able to reign in consumerism in the future, but I don't think that can happen until western capitalism has been seen to fail.
“Faltering” would imply a period of time when they were working.
Can we get an archive or something?
oh yeah https://archive.is/r1zzj
Thanks
I want a non-scammy solar panel so bad