“ChinAI #290: Around the Horn (17th edition)” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured linksChinAI #283Why is Baidu the only Chinese company to make it into the first tier of a global AI company ranking?Chinese software must go global, but it can’t always go it aloneChinese open source models lead foreign ones, closing in on global first-tier closed source modelsWith the emergence of visual model intelligence, the Scaling Law has not coming to an endHow did the founders of a celebrity AI company get caught up in an arbitration storm?AI Safety Benchmark Q3 Results ReleasedChinAI #261The U.S. Government is Losing Control of the InternetStepFun (Chinese AI startup) model ranks highest among Chinese models in this “most difficult LLM evaluation benchmark”Renewable energy generation faces "world-scale problems", can we count on AI?Elon Musk’s China Past Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues here & please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay for a subscription will support access for all). Any suggestions or feedback? Let me know at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jjding99 --- First published: November 25th, 2024 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-290-around-the-horn-17th-edition --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.