I think China openly admits that it’s only in early stages of socialism. It has capitalists and many privately owned companies. They will transition towards more socialism if/when it is going to benefit their country.
In the case of AI, the American government tried to manipulate the AI market via chip sanctions to benefit their AI companies and block China’s AI companies. In an alternate universe where they didn’t do that, who knows what would have happened. But because China had those restrictions, their companies innovated even harder and now it’s fucked up the US AI industry. In direct competition, US AI companies have taken a loss here. You could even argue it was an unfair competition and DeepSeek beat them all with a big handicap because they didn’t have as many GPUs and they weren’t the top end GPUs.
The article attempts to pit two ideologies against each other in Capitalism vs Communism but I would argue only China has the talent pool and the tech ecosystem to beat the US (especially in AI). It is unique in the world.
Similarly the US now is uniquely stupid and the absolute worst at spending money in tech. It’s a recent phenomena. The US used to have good tech companies.
Right, China is still in a socialist stage of development where the working class holds power, but capitalist relations have not been abolished yet. The key is that even at this stage we can see clear benefits of the proletarian dictatorship already. It’s not just the AI market, but it’s advancement across the board. EVs, clean energy tech, batteries, infrastructure, and so on. All of these things are advancing very rapidly and in service of the working majority.
EVs, clean energy tech, batteries, infrastructure, and so on.
IMHO the US government believed that they (or their private companies) were ahead in AI technology unlike all those other things where they are behind. That’s why they put so much effort into blocking China (Chip fab is another one though it’s related to the AI sector somewhat).
But Chinese had to go and overtake the US in AI as well. It’s a chef’s kiss moment. (Suck it America!)
I think China openly admits that it’s only in early stages of socialism. It has capitalists and many privately owned companies. They will transition towards more socialism if/when it is going to benefit their country.
In the case of AI, the American government tried to manipulate the AI market via chip sanctions to benefit their AI companies and block China’s AI companies. In an alternate universe where they didn’t do that, who knows what would have happened. But because China had those restrictions, their companies innovated even harder and now it’s fucked up the US AI industry. In direct competition, US AI companies have taken a loss here. You could even argue it was an unfair competition and DeepSeek beat them all with a big handicap because they didn’t have as many GPUs and they weren’t the top end GPUs.
The article attempts to pit two ideologies against each other in Capitalism vs Communism but I would argue only China has the talent pool and the tech ecosystem to beat the US (especially in AI). It is unique in the world.
Similarly the US now is uniquely stupid and the absolute worst at spending money in tech. It’s a recent phenomena. The US used to have good tech companies.
Right, China is still in a socialist stage of development where the working class holds power, but capitalist relations have not been abolished yet. The key is that even at this stage we can see clear benefits of the proletarian dictatorship already. It’s not just the AI market, but it’s advancement across the board. EVs, clean energy tech, batteries, infrastructure, and so on. All of these things are advancing very rapidly and in service of the working majority.
IMHO the US government believed that they (or their private companies) were ahead in AI technology unlike all those other things where they are behind. That’s why they put so much effort into blocking China (Chip fab is another one though it’s related to the AI sector somewhat).
But Chinese had to go and overtake the US in AI as well. It’s a chef’s kiss moment. (Suck it America!)
Oh yeah for sure, they drank their own koolaid regarding western superiority in tech.