From the article: > China’s AI strategy, for example, leverages state-led initiatives and private-sector innovation to great effect. The Communist Party's inf

From the article: > China’s AI strategy, for example, leverages state-led initiatives and private-sector innovation to great effect. The Communist Party's influence and coersion is not something I'd celebrate. Where did DeepSeek's innovation begin? With the US private enterprise and private investment that led to the foundational AI R&D (Transformers, LLMs etc). DeepSeek then built upon this research, which was shared openly by the West. The author's complaints about monopolistic hoarding by the West fail to acknowledge how generous US companies like Google were with their research publication. Both Silicon Valley and DeepSeek should be commended for their contributions. Yes, Silicon Valley does have a lot of speculative VC sloshing about, and that might make it a little less efficient, and more "scatter gun" - but it's Silicon Valley where most big tech innovation originates. Not China. Chinese companies simply keep an eye on any winning formulae originating from the US, which they then replicate. So please don't lambast Silicon Valley and heap praise on an autocratic, human-rights-abusing regime that is -rightly- sanctioned by the US.