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China’s successful internet entrepreneurs have risen to where they are by conquering the most cutthroat competitive environment on the planet. They live in a world where speed is essential, copying is an accepted practice, and competitors will stop at nothing to win a new market. Every day spent in China’s startup scene is a trial by fire, like a d
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Kai-Fu’s analysis serves as the string that connects the soaring kite of imagination to the graspable reel of reality.
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Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.
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Private venture funding followed.
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Jinri Toutiao (meaning “today’s headlines”; English name: “ByteDance”).
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
A recent tally of citations at global research institutions confirmed the trend. That ranking of the one hundred most-cited research institutions on AI from 2012 to 2016 showed China ranking second only to the United States. Among the elite institutions, Tsinghua University even outnumbered places like Stanford University in total AI citations. The
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As I laid out earlier, creating an AI superpower for the twenty-first century requires four main building blocks: abundant data, tenacious entrepreneurs, well-trained AI scientists, and a supportive policy environment. We’ve already seen how China’s gladiatorial startup ecosystem trained a generation of the world’s most street-smart entrepreneurs,
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While America still dominates when it comes to superstar researchers, Chinese companies and research institutions have filled their ranks with the kind of well-trained engineers that can power this era of AI deployment.