A former ByteDance engineer says China's AI industry is 'far behind' the US — and the gap is getting worse

Zhang Chi, a former ByteDance LLM engineer, says China's AI is falling further behind the US. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images A former ByteDance engineer says China's AI industry is still far behind the US. Zhang Chi said China's model benchmarks perform well but don't translate into real-world results. Tech leaders like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang believe China is catching up and could even pull ahead. For all the talk that China is catching up to the US in AI, a former ByteDance engi...