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Lennart Heim

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

It was like, yep, we take this revenue in, but eventually, in the long run, that's the thing we want to do here because...

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

AI might go to kill us all.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

China might take over the world.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Whatever your favorite threat scenario is, I think there's like a polarity of like national security arguments, why people are doing this.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And again, yeah, my job as a policymaker is like to calculate the costs of both, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

All I would say is AI industry has been doing pretty fine so far, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And again, when we talk about export to China, that's one market.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

There's still the rest of the world.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

The majority of the market is still available.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And if you just compare these semiconductor exports, they're minor compared to what's happening right now with the tariffs.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Right.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

This is the way bigger economic deal.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And it's still being done for many reasons.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Let's go back to the Huawei system, I think, because it's like a nice example of exactly the point which I'm going to make.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

They will be able to build systems which are on paper similar to the American system.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

The difference, just like as you're saying, it eats way much power.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

It requires three times more chips, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And like you have all of these inefficiencies.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Does this mean they cannot now train, let's say, a GBD 4.5 model?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Absolutely, they can't.