Azeem Azhar

It's really, really remarkable.

So I want to put my comments into three categories.

The first category is what I noticed about infrastructure and engineering.

The second is what I saw in and around AI, and I talked to a number of AI founders and researchers while I was there.

And also, the third set of observations really about

electric vehicles and what's happening with the auto industry, again, having ridden in a number of cars, but also talking to a number of people involved in those areas.

So I'll make my way through there.

And as always, I'm happy to take questions about this or any other topic as we make our way through.

So let's get started with point A, which was infrastructure and engineering.

I would say you just really notice that there is a lot of infrastructure running around as you come off through the airport and you're on the highways.

And it's such a dissonance compared to landing, say, at JFK and being on the Long Island Expressway, where things look crumbling.

They look like they're falling apart.

There's some very, very slow repairs going on.

This is not the case in Beijing at all.

There is just a sense that things are being built.

They're being built to last and being built to be maintained.

And, you know, that infrastructure story found its way across the high-speed rail.

I took a high-speed rail from Beijing South Station.

through to Tianjin, running at just over 300 kilometers an hour, which is about 180 miles an hour.

It was incredibly cheap.