Ex-HKUST President Tony Chan: China's AI Should Earn Respect via Innovation, Not Rankings
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-11-14
Tony Chan, NAE member and former president of HKUST, told the 17th Caixin Summit that China's AI industry should focus less on model rankings and more on earning respect through genuine innovation. He urged developing original approaches leveraging China's strengths in culture, traditional industries and supply chains, rather than just scaling up model parameters.
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