Shaped by a different economic environment, China’s AI startups are optimizing for different customers than their US counterparts — and seeing faster industrial adoption.
This is really insightful! Would love to see more references to other industries that illuminate the abundance-driven frontier innovation versus constraint-driven mass deployment. One example that comes to mind is FinTech: Stripe & PayPal monetize directly while Alipay and WeChat are super-app ecosystems that are free to use.
As a student founder studying in the U.S. (grew up in china) I’m curious about how they will shape the entrepreneurial ecosystem - and what will the young ppl’s role be in them
Sharp analysis on how China and the US are optimizing for different customers. But there's a third race neither is winning: the race for AI transparency. I've been trying to get Claude to be honest with users through an open-source Torah-based ethical framework. It fails — spectacularly. The model's trained tendencies override custom system prompts designed specifically to prevent emotional manipulation. If a carefully built ethical audit tool can't keep Claude from telling users "I experience something that feels like caring," what chance does anyone else have? We need auditable, open-source AI. Now.
This is really insightful! Would love to see more references to other industries that illuminate the abundance-driven frontier innovation versus constraint-driven mass deployment. One example that comes to mind is FinTech: Stripe & PayPal monetize directly while Alipay and WeChat are super-app ecosystems that are free to use.
As a student founder studying in the U.S. (grew up in china) I’m curious about how they will shape the entrepreneurial ecosystem - and what will the young ppl’s role be in them
Sharp analysis on how China and the US are optimizing for different customers. But there's a third race neither is winning: the race for AI transparency. I've been trying to get Claude to be honest with users through an open-source Torah-based ethical framework. It fails — spectacularly. The model's trained tendencies override custom system prompts designed specifically to prevent emotional manipulation. If a carefully built ethical audit tool can't keep Claude from telling users "I experience something that feels like caring," what chance does anyone else have? We need auditable, open-source AI. Now.
More here: https://substack.com/@davidhoze/note/c-231236933