The vibes in China’s AI labs
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A travel blog.
The vibes in China’s AI labs The vibes in China’s AI labs # For the past ~10 days, I got the opportunity to visit Chinese AI labs together with the incredible folks at SAIL . As someone who visited both China and the US for the first time in his life within six months, I found the differences, but even more so the similarities, fascinating. The strongest impression I came away with was that the AI researchers I met were very humble. The researchers spoke highly of other labs and their peers. DeepSeek came up often, probably because they had dropped a model a few days before our visits, and peo
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