Deep Ocean

I constantly criticize China Derangement Syndrome, so you can hardly accuse me of being into China-bashing, but the replies to this are insane. It's just people who either pretend that the same thing is true in the West or claim that it's no big deal if you can't drink tap water.

Ignoring his weird anti-artist stances, being unapologetically racist and bigoted, while trying to defend/justify those points instead of taking accountability for them... I'm sorry but those things come with a hammering

I just listened to Dwarkesh interview of Jensen where he asked about export controls. Jensen said that Anthropic Mythos was trained on a mundane number of chips and that China has no shortage of such capacity plus a lot of high end talent. The conclusion being that research should be globally collaborative and not antagonistic or siloed. My understanding of Chinese AI is somewhat complementary. There are chips. But they are expensive. Chinese investors are unwilling to fund experiments into AGI / ASI. There are only like 2 or 3 commercial players that the industry generally and truly believes with such as their goal. A few others may state they want to do it, but are hamstrung by their ability to fundraise from the market (a much smaller pool of capital vs US companies) or their boards. Maybe sounds silly to some folks outside of China, but shouldn’t to those who have followed me for a long time. I’ve written extensively about how finance shapes innovation, and how there is, relatively speaking, a notable disparity in availability of truly risk-taking capital in the private markets. I just don’t think there is much evidence export controls are a main reason for the successes or failures of AI development in China. What export controls very clearly did though is give the Chinese semiconductor sector a huge boost. And in that I think people really underestimate the competitor that has been created, which was entirely unnecessary. But whatever, probably good for humanity overall to have diversification for such a critical technology. But US really could have monopolized that for the foreseeable future.

This is a Swiss company, StarragTornos. German companies that make these machines are Kern and Hermle and you can also find Japanese equivalents with Mitsui Seiki and Yasda. Ultra precision CNC machines. Those three countries are the big three for ultra precision CNC machines.