They would understand China better if they listened to people like you who are inside of China instead of people who hold racial prejudices towards China and who are miles away on other continents
@bigmantrue1
Crazy stat: “China today accounts for around 27% of global industrial production, up from 24% in 2018. By 2030, the UN predicts, China’s share of industry will have risen to 45%” - WSJ 😳
@jabbawakka7286
Kevin, you are a giant golden treasure in a sea of lies, obfuscation and mediocrity. Your content and presentations are always top notch, backed by factual data. This old Kiwi rocker salutes and applauds your great work. In my opinion your channel should be rocking at least 1 millions subscribers. Be blessed brother.
@roberts5197
This reminds me of something I saw in the 1980's. A company called Thinking Machines partnered with the genius Richard Feynman. They produced a computer that had 1000 cheap processors and cost $1m. They pitted it against a $40m IBM mainframe. The IBM lost - and yet Thinking Machines went nowhere while IBM remains. Why. Because the big western companies buy up, and then close down, startups that threaten their profits. Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Google etc etc - they have all done it. They stifle development to protect profits.
Tech industry insiders are shocked at China's rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence, especially given our export bans on the fastest semiconductors. DeepSeek's model was developed with less than 9% of the computing hours thought necessary to build such a rich model, and at an astonishing cost of just $6 million.
The difference is that these Chinese AI models and LLM's were all developed using open-source frameworks. And China's entire economy runs the same way: infrastructure, supply chains, university research, and technology are widely shared by hundreds of companies with hundreds of thousands of engineers within similar industries. The same dynamics that propel China's industries to dominate in other sectors are employed in the fields of AI and semiconductor chip design.
To understand how and why China has closed the gap so quickly in technology, knowledge of tech and semiconductors are far less important than the understanding of China's industrial clustering policy. To support Kevin's channel financially, or for transcripts and direct links, and additional resources, please visit his Substack at https://kdwalmsley.substack.com
