Mandate of AI - by afra - Concurrent
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Silicon Valley believes its founders are carrying the future of AI into being. In China, who carries it?
Mandate of AI Silicon Valley believes its founders are carrying the future of AI into being. In China, who carries it? afra May 11, 2026 156 16 48 Share The drive from a batch of AI labs in Haidian district to the robotics company in Yizhuang takes the better part of an hour. We are running half the length of the Fifth Ring, which is ninety-eight kilometers, top to bottom, through a city my Western friends — many of them in Beijing for the first time — keep describing as vast and obscure. The planning is so bad, one of them says. Beijing has a nickname: West Pyongyang . The city is built not i
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