> somewhat surprised ChatGPT-like systems did not arise out of China first due to their massive investment funds for AI and their base of stem talent. Does Chi

> somewhat surprised ChatGPT-like systems did not arise out of China first due to their massive investment funds for AI and their base of stem talent. Does China innovate in this way? I think software is not a linear function of money in, value out. Inventing new programs and techniques is interesting as I’m sure what the spark is, and it certainly takes money, but that’s not the most important part. I remember reading in Masters of Doom about how John Carmack came up with some of the innovations id software used and was amazed that he, alone, came up with stuff that large, well-funded teams could not. I expect that China could have invested its entire GDP into stem and AI for the past 10 years and would not have came up with LLMs and ChatGPT. Or perhaps they did, but kept it secret and would never release it as a product to the public. But I believe the former based on the few software companies and few software innovations coming out of China in the past 20 years.