“ChinAI #290: Around the Horn (17th edition)” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured links

• ChinAI #283
• Why is Baidu the only Chinese company to make it into the first tier of a global AI company ranking?
• Chinese software must go global, but it can’t always go it alone
• Chinese open source models lead foreign ones, closing in on global first-tier closed source models
• With the emergence of visual model intelligence, the Scaling Law has not coming to an end
• How did the founders of a celebrity AI company get caught up in an arbitration storm?
• AI Safety Benchmark Q3 Results Released
• ChinAI #261
• The U.S. Government is Losing Control of the Internet
• StepFun (Chinese AI startup) model ranks highest among Chinese models in this “most difficult LLM evaluation benchmark”
• Renewable energy generation faces "world-scale problems", can we count on AI?
• Elon Musk’s China Past

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These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

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First published:
November 25th, 2024

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-290-around-the-horn-17th-edition

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