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Why Isn’t China Further Behind in AI? - Dylan Patel
Dylan Patel is one of the few analysts with real supply-chain visibility into China's chip and model ecosystem, so this is worth attention even without transcript detail. Export controls have clearly slowed but not stopped Chinese frontier labs, and the compute-versus-algorithmic-efficiency debate keeps tilting toward efficiency mattering more than raw chip access. Anyone modeling competitive timelines against Chinese labs should treat this as a data point, not a policy verdict.