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The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
- ▶ 40:44 unnamed speaker Uh, US supply chain, semiconductor supply chain stuff, you know, like, uh, China's slowly becoming completely independent of us. 4 times in the scene
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ▶ 11:22 unnamed speaker So, um, one of the things you guys started sort of in France, Europe, but very much now you're kind of taking that American standpoint, and more than just that, the, the point is the Chinese models that we see, they're not super open… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:01 unnamed speaker Like, you can see the government, can they ship to China? 2 times in the scene
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
🔬 "The Most Innovative Diffusion Research Is Happening in Drug Discovery, Not Image Generation"
- ▶ 1:13:10 Evan Feinberg And another sort of trend people like to be talking about is sort of, of course, the rise of China and in biotech.
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 13:47 unnamed speaker Any comments on them as a base model versus usually, you know, people choose like one of the Chinese models. 3 times in the scene
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 59:11 Anjney Midha You know, my, my roommates were a guy who was a, a top-ranked Dota player from PRC from China, didn't speak a lingua, English,
🔬 The Limits of AI in Science - Why We Need Self-Driving Labs — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
- ▶ 16:45 Joseph Krause Hafnium, 10 to 15 X in price, because China owns a majority of the supply chain, things like refractories, tampium, niobium.
- ▶ 1:00:39 unnamed speaker So, um, going to the competitive landscape a bit, I mean, we, we talked a bit about, you know, in the U S or, uh, in Europe, what people are working on, but China is both like running ahead on materials development and also is thinking… 6 times in the scene
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 51:06 unnamed speaker I like that you have like different, like, you know, number five was US versus China.
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 1:58 Shawn Wang Uh, I met Cormac and he was telling me that apparently in China, the super apps are shipping models in the app bundle for inference and just like use among all their super app constituents.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 21:33 Ivan Burazin And then you'd be have like India, Brazil, China, like that would be there.
FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
- ▶ 0:07 Yaroslav Azhnyuk China can produce four billion of these FPV drones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:26 Yaroslav Azhnyuk Large language models of running them is getting so low, um, you can have basically an inexpensive computer running, you know, what was a state of the art model year and a half ago, running it locally on a device with an open source model,…
- ▶ 1:05:18 Noah Smith Let's talk about China and China's manufacturing capabilities.
- ▶ 1:16:36 Yaroslav Azhnyuk Oh, like there are these metals that only for, for some reason God only put them under the Chinese territory and not, not under any others. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:22 Noah Smith So, so, four times as many people, um, more help from China. 2 times in the scene
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 2:33 Alessio Fanelli And I was reading through some of the Congress files, uh, when you went out there, Peter, and 18 of the top 20 global non-Chinese automakers, you two guys.
- ▶ 55:39 Peter Ludwig I mean, interestingly, I saw this thing, uh, the other day that, uh, I think China is doing a, a marathon with humanoids. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 28:25 Shawn Wang Outside of China, that's about it. 5 times in the scene
The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse
- ▶ 16:00 Sam D'Amico And obviously our friends across the Pacific and China figured out exactly the same strategy and they're really good at consumer electronics.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 57:43 Simon Eskildsen In particular, I generally prefer Chinese green tea, and I don't really like Japanese green tea, but this little prefecture somewhere in Japan has specialized in, like, they're like Japanese, but doing it the Chinese way. 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 7:00 Dylan Patel Bro wants to make fried rice and talk about China politics. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:44 unnamed speaker Do you have any thoughts on, you know, the danger of maybe a lot of Chinese talent fleeing due to the very staunchly anti-Chinese stance that a lot of these AI labs or top figures may take, or do you think this is a, like, a non-issue? 15 times in the scene
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 36:48 Shawn Wang Honestly, like, uh, it's very interesting, this, uh, sort of moonshot AI, and this is a tangent, we're not, we're not really gonna focus on this very much, but, um, you know how, like, the, the sort of AI tigers out of China were, were…
Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
- ▶ 12:10 unnamed speaker I mean, also, tendentially, there's, like, okay, when you talk about the China vector, right, there's the subliminal learning work.
[State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
- ▶ 18:56 Andy Konwinski Western open science and research discourse has no, has, has lost the number one spot to China. 2 times in the scene
[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
- ▶ 12:03 unnamed speaker I think what's interesting also for me is, I guess, the innovations that are exposed by the Chinese models are maybe copies or, like, discussions of what's going on in,
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- ▶ 31:09 unnamed speaker You can just use the, the sort of previous generation or the shackled ones they sell to China.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 9:05 Matthias Wagner So, and you can send us off from here to a manufacturer anywhere in the world, typically China, and they'll, you know, in a week, 10 days, they'll send us back to you fully assembled.
- ▶ 30:33 Matthias Wagner So I think a popular option is in China is, is GLCPCB.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 0:31 Deedy Das The way it works is similar to countries like China or some other countries where you take a big exam, you get ranked, um, a million people take the core engineering exam and the top 10,000 get in and the top 200 get into computer science.
- ▶ 39:46 Deedy Das The way it works is similar to countries like China or some other countries where you take a big exam, you get ranked.
⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
- ▶ 26:57 Elie Bakouch So this is like, uh, from two weeks ago, this long cut flash from the, the DoorDash of China paper that released the company that basically released like a state of the art model, which is pretty crazy.
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 6:22 Batuhan Taskaya Next month, we were at 20, like, it just started going from there, and then video models started, came around, you know, we partnered with Luma Labs, we partnered with other video model companies in China, we partnered with Kling, Kueshaw,…
- ▶ 18:21 unnamed speaker Um, which like at the time it was just stability and like, there wasn't, there was no Chinese, uh, you know, output.
- ▶ 37:18 Batuhan Taskaya Smaller labs in China that, like, you might not hear about, but, like, Stepfun, they, they released, like, an image editing model, uh, Hydream, Vivago, like, there's, like, all these, like, small labs they're releasing, because I don't…
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 50:22 unnamed speaker Um, uh, you know, there's, there's a lot of open models coming off from China.
⚡️Math Olympiad gold medalist explains OpenAI and Google DeepMind IMO Gold Performances
- ▶ 2:06 Dr. Jasper Zhang Um, and, uh, around like three PM, uh, one friend told me that, wow, uh, China team won the IMO again.
- ▶ 11:53 Dr. Jasper Zhang Uh, I would say it's super competitive in China.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 38:59 unnamed speaker We've got people in China making like a little fork of us.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 16:48 Shawn Wang You could have done China. 2 times in the scene
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 16:35 Sid Bendre They're by, they're actually like the, the U.S. brand, U.S. uh, a U.S. version of a, or I'd say the U.S. product from a, like, Chinese, like, company called Zoibank out in China. 2 times in the scene
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 1:33 unnamed speaker So, at that time, yeah, 30 years ago, back in China, not everyone has, has its own computer.
Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash Thinking: the new SOTA models for the agentic era
- ▶ 15:39 Logan Kilpatrick That China's in like, they're going to have companies that build great models.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 51:27 unnamed speaker I lived almost two years in China. 3 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 58:13 Samuel Colvin I think, look, like, everywhere that isn't the US and China knows that we're, like, way behind on AI.
DeepSeek V3, SGLang, and the state of Open Model Inference in 2025 (Quantization, MoEs, Pricing)
- ▶ 41:19 unnamed speaker Is it the Berkeley of China?
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 51:06 unnamed speaker You, like, found something from China. 3 times in the scene
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 46:25 Shawn Wang Yup, China.
[Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
How AI is Eating Finance - with Mike Conover of Brightwave
- ▶ 9:57 Mike Conover The Matic contributors to an investment decision, um, or, or developing your thesis that, um, in response to export controls on a 100 cards, uh, China has put in place licensors on the transfer of germanium and gallium, which are not rare… 2 times in the scene
Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
- ▶ 20:23 Jungwon Byun We're predicting like, is China going to invade Taiwan?
Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
- ▶ 54:13 Shawn Wang Why are the Chinese universities so good at embeddings? 2 times in the scene
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 29:00 Dylan Patel Like, if you look at what Tsinghua University is doing in China, like, actually, they open source their model to, I think, the largest, like, by-parameter account, at least, open source models.
- ▶ 55:58 Dylan Patel The U.S. could absolutely shut down the Chinese semiconductor supply chain, they won't, but, and China could absolutely shut down the U.S. one, actually, by the way. 2 times in the scene
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- ▶ 25:42 Eugene Cheah So, uh, so RWKB started with, uh, started with, uh, also, in context, the main person leading the RWKB project, Blink, is from China. 2 times in the scene