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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu
Description: Kevin Xu of http://interconnected.blog/ and I did a liveshow on substack!
We chat about why working in Chinese AI looks so much tougher than building in the West: less compute, lower upside, more political constraints, and a much weaker market for enterprise software.
We also get into Kevin Xu's definitive history of open source in China (https://interconnected.blog/chinese-open-source-a-definitive-history/?ref=kevin-xus-interconnected-newsletter) and talk why open source has become one of the few real paths Chinese AI companies have to win users abroad, even as the business model at home remains brutal.
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