Both China and Russia are building alternatives to Boeing/Airbus commercial airliners. But are in two completely different situations.
COMAC relies on international suppliers, probably hoping that will make it easier for them to be allowed to fly outside China and then over time they can use more and more domestic suppliers. Whereas the Russians are completely cut off from international suppliers and travel, and have to resurrect their airliner projects which have been more or less dormant since the Soviet times.
I think both will be succesful over time; they have huge internal markets that can sponsor quite a bit of development cost.
How can anyone think that Hong Kong new territories and Guantanamo, which were areas essentially taken by force and then had a dubious leasing agreement painted over them, is the same situation as an agreement between two formal allies?
OpenAIs models are so powerful and so close to AGI that the global balance of power would flip if autocratic regimes like China were to gain API access to it.
That’s what I am getting from the geopolitical safety researching marketing department.
Anyway as far as I can tell OpenAI has been turning access on and off for a while. And oddly enough now have decided to turn it off completely just as plenty of credible alternatives are emerging.
What is the point of making the matrix multiplication itself multithreaded (other than benchmarking)? Wouldn't it be more beneficial in practice to have the multithreadedness in the algorithm that use the multiplication?
Yes. Solar panels, and air cons for that matter, are as cheap as ever. We europeans can easily afford this.
Insisting on no air con is a cultural phenomenon. We associate it to something unneccessary, unnatural, excessive, distasteful, and wasteful. Our attitude is changing though ...
"Company President Brad Smith also revealed that China accounts for only 1.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue at a recent congressional hearing, raising questions about its future in the country."
1.5% sounds like a number massaged to please the particular audience.
I think it is hard to make a for profit general purpose language today; if you by that you mean that the developers directly pay for it. The business model has moved on; and builders for languages / platforms have found other ways of charging people.
So what about US companies like Apple, Tesla and Microsoft that operate in China and wants to make their AI offerings available there while being bound by Chinese requirements to run cloud services in the country? Wouldn’t they be caught by this and thus at a disadvantage vs local offerings?
They have tech for civilian aviation in their massive military industry. And just the sheer size of the country guarantees the demand.