Multipolarity Dialogues: The Other Superweapon - Adventures In Chinese AI, with TP Huang

Fable — a short fantastical tale with a moral message.

For weeks, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei was telling anyone who’d listen that he’d invented an AI so powerful it could walk through walls, shoot sparrows from the sky, talk to horses, invent trees. A death star of tech.

Whether this was part of the sales pitch or genuine alarm, the US Government has taken him at his word, and shut off access to it beyond America’s shores.

Suddenly, the biggest tech of the 21st century is at the heart of a new age of mercantilism.

The world is waking up. But some of the world was already awake.

TP Huang is one of the best China watchers out there. A programmer and tech specialist, he sees an even bigger battle coming.

The divergence of chip supply chains, ever since the Biden Administration’s October surprise in 2022, now stands ready to produce a space race over not just the chips, but the software itself.

In that aspect, China is perpetually six months to a year behind. But is six months really decisive, when you can do everything at a fraction of the cost of your rivals? And when you’re not just bowing down before a brain in a jar, but embedding AI in factories and robots?

While the world focuses on AGI psychodrama in California and flat-footed despair in Brussels, this week, TP is talking to Andrew Collingwood about the flint-eyed Chinese strategy to build a truly insulated supply chain within the next ten years.

You can read his full piece, published in two parts, on the Multipolarity Substack.

https://multipolaritypod.substack.com/p/the-struggle-for-mastery-of-the-21st