I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

In a new essay for Rest of World, publisher Gordon Saft recounts a recent trip to China with a delegation of media and technology leaders to see the country's AI scene up close. His takeaway, as the title suggests, is that the AI future he encountered looked familiar — strikingly similar to the one being built in the U.S. The piece offers a first-person perspective on how convergent the two AI ecosystems have become.

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