Race for AI supremacy: Chinese-born scientists in Musk’s Grok squad line up against China

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Race for AI supremacy: Chinese-born scientists in Musk’s Grok squad line up against China​

Media in China is taking notice of the large number of key developers, researchers and scientists born and educated in China at work in US​

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Victoria Bela
Published: 5:57pm, 20 Feb 2025Updated: 1:26am, 21 Feb 2025

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After Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI unveiled Grok 3, its latest chatbot, on Tuesday, the presence of a large number of Chinese developers at the company came under the spotlight.

The United States and China continue to release new AI models in a bid to outperform each other. The victor in the global AI race may be determined by the efforts of Chinese computer scientists and engineers on either side.

During a live stream on X announcing the release, Musk said Grok 3 outperformed Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s default V3 model and US-based OpenAI’s GPT-4o on science, maths and coding benchmarks.

Chinese media quickly took notice, releasing articles highlighting the Chinese talent on the xAI team, including a core member who went to Zhejiang University – the university DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng also attended.

Around one-third of the founding members of xAI are reportedly of Chinese heritage, with two members present during the live stream to introduce the model to the world.

“Loving Elon’s international team of engineers, I think I hear German, Chinese and American,” author and AI entrepreneur Nina Schick posted on X on Tuesday.

Several posts on X expressed similar sentiments. A user called “seclink” posted in Chinese to more than 20,000 followers that in the field of large language models “a group of Chinese in the US and a group of Chinese in China are competing with each other”.

According to the MacroPolo Global AI Talent Tracker, a product of the Paulson Institute think tank in Chicago, China was the country of origin for 38 per cent of top-tier AI researchers working in the United States in 2022, compared to 37 per cent of US origin.

 

[eatshitndie]

ccp spies are staking out their homes 24 by 7 by 369. one wrong move and they will either be murdered or abducted.

 

[Truthspeak]

Divide and conquer at best. Made sheeple taking sides, then sheeple all ended up embracing AI and dependent on AI for life

 

[k1976]

Divide and conquer at best. Made sheeple taking sides, then sheeple all ended up embracing AI and dependent on AI for life

Herding behaviour mah

 

[Truthspeak]

Herding behaviour mah

 

[laksaboy]

China should forget about the high tech stuff. I'll be very surprised if the ordinary Tiongs in China don't starve to death or die of illnesses without imported medicine.

Oh, and once the Ukraine-Russia catfight ceases, I expect Russia and China to have a public falling out. Dongbei Tiongs should learn to speak a few words of Russian now, if they value their future well-being.