AI with Chinese Characteristics

Podcast: Decouple · Dr. Chris Keefer

Opublikowano: 2026-02-12

In this episode of Decouple, Chris sits down with Kyle Chan of the High Capacity Substack to unpack what “AI with Chinese characteristics” actually means. Rather than framing artificial intelligence as a simple US–China race to AGI, they explore how each country is building AI inside very different institutional systems. The conversation covers DeepSeek, compute constraints, quantization, and the surprising reality that many Chinese AI labs operate with far less capital than their American counterparts while still publishing at the frontier. They dig into China’s AI enabling stack, from universities and state-backed labs to energy buildout...