It will all end in flames
For decades, the pilgrimage route for ambitious tech founders, investors, and engineers led to Silicon Valley. Now, a growing number of them are flying to Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Shenzhen instead. China is seeing a surge in a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay up to $9,000 for curated tours of electric-vehicle factories, robotaxis, and artificial intelligence and robotics companies....
Continue Reading on https://restofworld.org/The tech race between the U.S. and China seems to heat up daily. Headlines center on how America seeks to lead global AI with its capital and chips, while China tries to catch up through government subsidies and engineering ingenuity. But look closer, and you find two ecosystems that are deeply intertwined — in talent, research, and culture. I recently wrote a feature about Chinese AI...
Continue Reading on https://restofworld.org/When Donald Trump arrived in Beijing last week for his first state visit to China since 2017, he was joined by the CEOs of Tesla, Apple, Nvidia, Micron, Qualcomm, and others. Their presence went against the rhetoric coming out of Washington and Silicon Valley of deteriorating U.S.-China relations. Instead, these CEOs appeared to convey that the version of U.S.-China relations being sold to...
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