Why Chinese tech keeps surprising the West

ML is &quot;easy&quot;. Some scam-ish west is balooning ML hardness to get ridiculous funding... well LLMs to be accurate.<p>Let&#x27;s wait china to announce their own EUV photolitography tool to produce at scale cutting-edge chips... yeah... this is &quot;silghtly&quot; harder than ML...

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How often are tech advancements artificially slowed, meted out in quarterly or annual releases to keep the growth metrics up?

Is copying something and then lying about how much it cost you to do it really a surprise? The only surprise for me was that so many people, especially people here, took China&#x27;s word at face value.

&gt; The DeepSeek shock exposes an uncomfortable truth: American tech exceptionalism and the xenophobia that underpins it mean the broligarchy will keep being surprised.<p>Granted there is more to xenophobia than just demographics, but it should be noted that, in this sample [1], Whites are underrepresented at 18&#x2F;23 of tech companies, while Asians are <i>over</i>represented at 23&#x2F;23.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20250127210140&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;informationisbeautiful.net&#x2F;visualizations&#x2F;diversity-in-tech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20250127210140&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;informati...</a>

There’s nothing surprising about them copying our stuff and making it cheaper

&gt;the broligarchy will keep being surprised.<p>No matter what expressive nickname you use, there are natural limitations in vision that cause some well-heeled players to throw away billions before the first Pikachu gasp catches on. That&#x27;s how they get these nicknames.<p>No big deal, they can afford it, easy come easy go.

&quot;DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future.&quot;