Ask HN: Besides TikTok, what other innovations have come out of China recently?
For several years now, there have been talks about China catching up or even overtaking Western countries when it comes to innovation. But what concrete signs are there?
I've read multiple times that China is supposedly now a leading publisher of AI research papers. But how come ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and all these other recent AI innovations didn't come out of China? Even the three giants, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu seem to be barely able to make a dent in foreign markets (outside of straight acquisitions).
And Temu appears to be burning a lot of cash to do something similar as Wish, which hasn't been doing very well lately.
It would be interesting to hear from people active in all kinds of fields, even outside of software tech.
I've read multiple times that China is supposedly now a leading publisher of AI research papers. But how come ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and all these other recent AI innovations didn't come out of China? Even the three giants, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu seem to be barely able to make a dent in foreign markets (outside of straight acquisitions).
And Temu appears to be burning a lot of cash to do something similar as Wish, which hasn't been doing very well lately.
It would be interesting to hear from people active in all kinds of fields, even outside of software tech.