282 China AI = Rapid Relevance… DeepSeek R1 – 1/20/25… Source: Reuters, ‘DeepSeek narrows China-US AI gap to three months, 01.AI founder Lee Kai-Fu says’ (3/25); China Talk Media (11/24) We believe that as the economy develops, China should gradually become a contributor instead of freeriding. In the past 30+ years of the IT wave, we basically didn’t participate in real technological innovation. We’re used to Moore’s Law falling out of the sky, lying at home waiting 18 months for better hardware and software to emerge. That’s how the Scaling Law is being treated… What we see is that Chinese AI can’t be in the position of following forever. We often say that there is a gap of one or two years between Chinese AI and the United States, but the real gap is the difference between originality and imitation. If this doesn’t change, China will always be only a follower – so some exploration is inescapable. - DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfang, 11/24 USA vs. China in Technology = China’s AI Response Time Significantly Faster vs. Internet 1995