OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China
And less than two months after Ke Jie resigned his last game to AlphaGo, the Chinese central government issued an ambitious plan to build artificial intelligence capabilities. It called for greater funding, policy support, and national coordination for AI development. It set clear benchmarks for progress by 2020 and 2025, and it projected that by 2
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Another issue is low tech defensibility. In the AI world tech defensibility is harder to achieve because new/revolutionary models are being developed mostly in open, academic settings and so are available in open source.
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That has already helped China’s juggernauts make up ground on their American counterparts in both revenue and market caps. In the age of AI implementation, the impact of these divergent data ecosystems will be far more profound. It will shape what industries AI startups will disrupt in each country and what intractable problems they will solve. But
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