Ep 85 - China’s approach to AI in the Global South: selling the razor blades, not the razor

Everyone keeps calling the US-China AI competition a race. But Eric Olander, co-founder of the China Global South Project, says that framing is wrong – because a race implies a finish line, and this competition doesn't have one.Eric’s view is that Chinese AI companies aren't necessarily looking to out innovate US closed-weight models.Instead, the goal for China is to become Android to America's Apple – 10% of the profit, but 90% of the world's users.On this week’s episode of the Trivium China...