Inflammatory & clickbaity title aside, it serves as a good attempt at systematically investigating the status quo of Chinese attitudes towards AI safety and development.
Some key diagrams that I find particularly informative:
Still, Anthropic made sure to take a jab at Zhipu (instead of, say, directing it to the less safe companies). Anthropic's criticisms does have some merit and are worth serious consideration, so I will follow up with a more detailed post about the current evidence and arguments both for and against open-weight AIs in terms of existential risks broadly.
If you are in China, in the field of AI, and have expertise, now is probably the time to do something about it - such as joining safety-pilled Chinese orgs like Concordia AI, as well as independently publishing papers, applying for grants, and connecting with like-minded Chinese researchers who are particularly worried about existential risks.
Link to original article: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/beijing-will-not-pace-the-frontier
Inflammatory & clickbaity title aside, it serves as a good attempt at systematically investigating the status quo of Chinese attitudes towards AI safety and development.
Some key diagrams that I find particularly informative:
And Zhipu is the only startup out of those that's actually fully entity-blacklisted by the US! I've been impressed by their cyberdefense work ahead of publicly releasing GLM-5.3, as well as safety-pilled attitudes and commitments compared to other Chinese AI companies.
Still, Anthropic made sure to take a jab at Zhipu (instead of, say, directing it to the less safe companies). Anthropic's criticisms does have some merit and are worth serious consideration, so I will follow up with a more detailed post about the current evidence and arguments both for and against open-weight AIs in terms of existential risks broadly.
If you are in China, in the field of AI, and have expertise, now is probably the time to do something about it - such as joining safety-pilled Chinese orgs like Concordia AI, as well as independently publishing papers, applying for grants, and connecting with like-minded Chinese researchers who are particularly worried about existential risks.
Some additional recommended reading:
https://jasminexli.substack.com/p/ai-safety-in-china-a-primer