China and Russia collectively have a talent pool dense enough to build future products and services the rest of the world uses, if China can produce comparative hardware for AI.

Simple example being TikTok.

Its just a matter of time really.

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ponector 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

If russia has a dense talent pool why they are decades behind in chip design and manufacturing?

	▲	justapassenger 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		You need more than talent - founding, culture of entrepreneurship, government support, trust of partners, suppliers, etc. Russia has none of that at the scale needed.

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cshores 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Everything in china is a copy though. Even your example TikTok is a Vine clone

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kamikazeturtles 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The Europeans invented the car and Ford mass produced it.

Yet, we see Ford as extremely innovative and revolutionary. I think we can draw lots of parallels between a 19th and early 20th century industrializing US and current China.

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overfeed 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You may disparage TikTok as a Vine clone, but it redefined the state of the art for recsys algorithms. Google and Meta had to play catch-up with how quickly and how good TikTok is at discovering videos users find interesting out of the ocean of available content.

	▲	rhetocj23 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah its incredibly disrespectful to call TikTok just a vine clone. Most of Meta's engagement comes from video content. Continuous engagement is how it is able to generate its revenue. Thats all I need to say!