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Export controls
Regulations that limit the export of certain technologies to maintain national security and technological advantage.
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China's economy is decentralized, with local mayors driving reforms and innovation, despite political centralization.
Keyu Jin argues China's economic model is more capitalist than perceived, with intense competition and consumer ambition.
US tariffs have not closed trade deficits with China, highlighting their ineffectiveness in addressing trade imbalances.
The one-child policy has led to demographic shifts impacting China's labor market and economic dynamics.
US export controls have inadvertently accelerated China's technological innovation, contrary to their intended effect.
DeepSeek's R1 model is 27 times cheaper than OpenAI's o1 model, costing $2 per million tokens.
NVIDIA's H20 chip, despite having lower FLOPS than the H100, performs better on reasoning tasks due to higher memory bandwidth.
China's AI development is bolstered by a trillion RMB subsidy, but US export controls limit their access to cutting-edge GPUs.
OpenAI's joint venture with Oracle involves a $100 billion infrastructure investment, but funding remains uncertain.
DeepSeek's mixture of experts model activates only 37 billion of its 600 billion parameters, reducing compute costs.
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