China's Underestimated Generative AI Startups

Alibaba is a huge nexus for investment in China's Gen AI startups now.

Hello Everyone,

I keep seeing that the West is under-reporting how well China’s LLM community is doing, learning and scaling their own large-language-models. Amid a turbulent period of a huge exodus of foreign investments, AI chip bans, a Semiconductor crunch, a lingering Chinese Government Techlash, and still other challenges and obstacles, China is doing surprisingly well in Generative AI startups.

How could that be?

Of course for me, this isn’t exactly surprising. This bottleneck the U.S. is creating, is forcing China to innovate and China has the scale to actually do so, even with not as much funding as it had even had access to just a few short years ago.

The funny part about all of this? Kai-Fu Lee is actually a Taiwanese businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China. He’s also building one of China’s best chances of AI success. His startup 01.AI is introducing its first consumer AI app, just a few days after Claude 3.