@Changxche: I spoke with Zhang Chi, who spent the past year inside ByteDance Seed, the AI research division behind Doubao, China's …
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ByteDance Seed insider Zhang Chi says the AI capability gap between China and the U.S. is widening, despite Doubao being China’s most-used chatbot.
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I spoke with Zhang Chi, who spent the past year inside ByteDance Seed, the AI research division behind Doubao, China’s most-used chatbot. His view, from the inside: the gap between Chinese and American AI iswidening.
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