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ChinaTalk: AI Geopolitics in o3's Age with Chris Miller + Lennart Heim

Jordan Schneider
Friday, January 3, 2025, 3:57 PM

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Chris Miller of Chip War and Lennart Heim of RAND check in on the geopolitics of AI. We explore:

  • Chinese labs' algorithmic progress (surprising to everyone but regular ChinaTalk listeners!)
  • The geopolitical implications of scaling on test time compute
  • What is and isn't working with US export controls
  • And a whole lot more this was a great episode!

The CSET report I referenced: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/chinas-sti-operations/

Chris and Lennart's ChinaTalk in early 2023 https://www.chinatalk.media/p/ai-compute-101-the-geopolitics-of

Outtro music: japanese citypop producers collaborating Beijinger Cheng Fangyuan in the 80s! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=403GCMhZ89Q&ab_channel=Heatwolves itself a cover of this Japanese track but better than the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyjnkuhRfJA&ab_channel=PopBULL

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Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."

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