James McHugh

I think I know what I don't want China to know, and I'm also very aware of what I don't want America to know.

Works as well as the Western products.

That's the argument.

But I think they also say that they probably cut a lot of corners.

I'll tell you a great story.

I went to Xi'an, which is the old walled city of China.

And my partner, she studied Chinese writing.

And in Xi'an, they have a lot of galleries that kind of display some of the old art of Chinese writing.

And we were walking through this gallery.

And because she'd studied all this stuff, she was able to say, oh, look, that's the such and such from the third dynasty.

And look how perfectly he copied the emperor.

And that was a great compliment to both the emperor and to him.

And now look at how this guy copied this.

And that kind of dawned on me that actually it's celebrated in the Chinese culture.

It's celebrated the ability, it's flattering that I have copied you so well.

So we often think of it as theft, but I think it starts from a position of respect that, wow, you guys are so advanced.

We're going to try and catch up by replicating what you've done as a starting position.

So look, I want to stay aware of what China's doing.

So that's part of the reason I use DeepSeek.

I want to be cognizant of the fact that probably they've accelerated that through learnings and money that's been spent in the US.