Alexandr (Alex) Wang

They, the CCP put out a broad whole of government, you know, civil military fusion plan to win on AI.

Like you're mentioning, Xi Jinping himself has been, has spoken about how AI is going to define the future winners of,

this global competition.

From a military standpoint, they say explicitly, hey, we believe that AI

is a leapfrog technology, which means even though our military is worse than America's military today, if we overinvest in AI, we have a more AI-enabled military than theirs, we could leapfrog them.

So they've been super invested.

Right now, I think the best way to kind of paint the current situation is they...

are way ahead on power and power generation.

They're behind on chips, but catching up on chips.

They are ahead of us on data.

China has had, again, since 2018, a large-scale operation to dominate on data.

In 2023, I think, there were over 2 million people in China who were working inside data factories, basically as data labelers or annotators, basically creating data to fuel into AI systems.

I think that number in the US by comparison is something like 100,000.

They're outspending us 12 to 1 on data.

They have over seven cities, full cities in China that are dedicated data hubs that are basically powering this broad approach to data dominance.

And then on algorithms, I think they are on par with us because of large-scale espionage.

So

And this is I think one of these open secrets in the tech industry that Chinese intelligence basically steals all of the IP and technological secrets from from the United States There are a bunch of very concerning reports here.

So one is there was a Google engineer who took a

the designs and all the IP of how Google designed their AI chips and just took those and moved to China and then started a company on top using those designs.