huaijiang
@huaijiangzhu · Jul 19, 2026
my spicy theory is that chinese ai labs keep winning because of culture, not talent or resources.
chinese labs still have a deeply hands-on engineering culture. deepseek and kimi are flat organizations where science and engineering are fused: the same people move between
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
It is pretentious and poisonous for for-profit companies to call themselves “labs” when they are actually corporations and to create a lords & peasants culture between (looksmaxxing) “researchers” & engineers when they are both, on their better days, actually engineers
10:30 AM · July 20, 2026 · 20.4K views
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