Matt Sheehan
@mattsheehan88
US/China AI & tech. Fellow @CarnegieEndow. Author "The Transpacific Experiment: How China & California Collaborate & Compete For Our Future." Nuggets.
Happy Friday! I was lucky to have a great convo w/ @Greg_Allen on the AI Policy Podcast, talking through the history + latest updates in 🇨🇳 AI policy. I’m heading out on leave soon so wanted to pin a few of these ideas here. Quick takes + timestamps in🧵 below. (1/x)
One of China’s top large model developers with a new name and a newly open sourced family of models
Z.ai marks a new chapter for us, our mission remains — teaching machines to think like humans. We open sourced GLM-4-0414 under the MIT License. This is just the beginning.
Join us next Thursday 4/24!
Excited to host this all-Asian female power panel on interpreting Chinese politics under Trump following @NCUSCR #ChinaTownhall featuring @BrookingsFP @ryanl_hass Analysis of what this mean for Canada by @VinaNadjibulla @evadou and Yun Sun of @StimsonCenter
Tyler Cowen: "I've seen enough, I'm calling it, o3 is AGI" Meanwhile, o3 in response to the first prompt I give it:
Writing something on the history and current state of Silicon Valley's relationship to 🇨🇳, sent me back to look at the first thing I ever wrote for a think tank back in 2017. Little time capsule of the state of play at the dawn of decoupling: archivemacropolo.org/analysis/silic…
A generation-defining own goal This is how to lose a tech war
Awesome new piece by @astoks on China's effort to create a National Integrated Computing Network: "So far, the 'computing network' aspect of the EDWC plan has received very little attention even though it may be one of the more significant aspects of the plan."