Tang Jie (CEO of Zhipu AI) even recently said: "The truth may be that the gap [between US and Chinese AI] is actually widening."
智谱 CEO 唐杰亲口承认差距可能正在扩大——这句话的分量极重。在中国 AI 公司普遍对外宣称「与美国差距不大」的舆论环境下，一位领军者公开说出这句话，是罕见的清醒与坦诚。这与本文的核心论点完全吻合：算力差距在出口管制和国内芯片滞后的双重压力下，短期内很难缩小。对智谱内部的战略制定而言，这句话的代价和勇气都值得深思。
But this process took over two decades instead of a few hours in the case of AlphaZero because safety considerations put a limit on the extent to which each iteration of this loop could be scaled up compared to the previous one
So the capability reliability gap implies that if you’re willing to accept self driving cars mowing through droves of people until they can reliably not crush people on the street under their wheels, then we’d likely end up with self driving cards pretty quickly, but for the most part we don’t see this as acceptable