Skimming through it I was confused.

- No homegrown semiconductor industry: isn’t the recent hand-wringing over the new Huawei chips proof of the opposite?

- No interest in training LLMs? Is that true? I thought Baidu was already on it?

In fact at every major AI conferences, Chinese R&D groups like Baidu and Ant group are major participants (and sponsors). I am talking about conferences like NeurIPS and AAAI, which both happened in the past few months.

EDIT: the comments of that article are also confused by that article, lol. Is there a joke that is going over our collective heads?

There's also a lot of research papers in AI coming out of Chinese universities.

Also I have seen some papers on Arxiv from FAANG companies that have a half-dozen or more co-authors, and almost all of those authors have Chinese names.

They're major participants and sponsors because they're definitely behind, and they're trying to rectify that.

This article should decouple 1) capacity to develop AGI versus 2) desire.