We Spent 10 Days Touring Chinese AI Labs. Here’s What We Saw.
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Sleeping Cots, Robot Pharmacies, and the Race for AGI
Lily Ottinger is an editor and researcher for ChinaTalk, and Kai Williams writes for Understanding AI. From late April to early May, SAIL writers spent 10 days touring Chinese AI and robotics labs. We got off the plane at the Beijing airport, to be welcomed on the jet bridge by 30-foot signs that said, “Alibaba Cloud robustly supports Chinese companies going overseas.” AGI was in the air, and we saw plenty of AI product advertisements across the four Chinese cities we visited (Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen). I, Lily Ottinger, was one of the few fluent Mandarin speakers in the group…
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