AI researcher in China: companies won't slow down, chip embargo won't stop them
Imaginary_Music4768 · reddit · 2026-09-13
An AI researcher based in China argues the country won't voluntarily slow AI progress while still catching up: companies are commercially driven and highly competitive, distillation offsets compute gaps, and rapidly expanding in-house chips now let players like Moonshot train trillion-parameter models. State-level US-China pacing agreements are plausible, he says, but company-level cooperation with Anthropic is unlikely due to widespread distrust, and any deals won't slow much.
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