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China’s AI & Robotics Are Advancing Faster Than Expected - E737
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Jianggan Li joins Jeremy Au to report back from a week in China visiting five humanoid robot companies and three AI investors. They cover the US-China summit that produced a hotline and the term superintelligence, why Jianggan reads the agreement more generously than the media did, and the near-absence of safety discussion among Chinese labs racing toward general intelligence and embodied AI. The robotics findings are concrete: everyone concedes a funding bubble, Figure sorts 1,300 parcels an hour with 2,200 expected within a year, and engineers say hardware is not the limiting factor, software is. Warehouses run 60 to 70 autonomous forklifts. They...
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they decided to call it super intelligence instead of artificial intelligence. So people in China, they are competing against each other. So they are just racing towards general intelligence, embodied AI, world model. Last week, I visited about five companies building human robots.
What's the limited factor? They said hardware is not. We have seen sites where like 60, 70 forklifts are running around without humans operating that. And that's actually pretty impressive.
That kind of competitive pressure drives adoption much faster. Hey, Jiang An, how was your trip to China? As usual, I'm gaining weight. First for business and second because it was a mid-autumn festival, so I took the opportunity
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