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Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll
(www.theguardian.com)
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The idea of AI as a public utility is pretty cool. But I admit you are an early advocate for this and encourage you to keep pushing it. Edit: my take is highlighting how economically unsustainable the models are under hyper surveillance capitalism, which compliments your take i think.
Again, this fundamentally confuses how AI is treated in China and equates it to the US. Profit is secondary to utility in China, at least when it comes to infrastructure and critical industries. That's why the biggest companies in China are all state owned enterprises. AI in China is being used for pattern recognition in manufacturing and agricultural work, to help identify patterns for medical diagnosis, etc. It isn't being used to replace workers. The costs to run, say, Deepseek or Qwen are far below Claude and ChatGPT, so projecting western handling of AI onto China doesn't make much sense to me.
This is not true either though. China is rapidly divesting from certain AI portfolios and is not immune to the economics of data centers especially as they are energy vulnerable. You can't just say something is a public utility (which is good btw) and hand wave away costs or operation.
Im sure you realize Chinese state owned operations have gone bankrupt many times in the past and continue to do so.
I never dismissed costs of operation, simply that looking at stock market performance for AI in China to get a view of how it's treated and where it stands is silly.
Yes true but this article is one of many and the pressures on China's approach are legitimately mounting. Fair point though. Stock markets dont mean much in china.
Ironically though I think stock market volatility of Chinese AI stocks shows their stock market is a bit healthier on that portfolio compared to the US which has runaway growth built on massive USD quantitative easing.
I think the pressures are exaggerated. There's a lot of money in discounting China's approach, considering how much money is invested in the western approach. I agree, the volatility of the stock market in China does actually seem to point to it being more grounded.