The problem with welcome news about AI in China

I’m wary of anything I read that gives people news they might like to hear. Russia is bungling its war in Ukraine? Maybe so, but it hasn’t withdrawn yet. China is falling behind in artificial intelligence R&D? Maybe so, but if I remember correctly the current version of a Chinese large language model (LLM) called Wu Dao is bilingual, which isn’t true of any Western LLMs I know of. A New York Times business article that’s the latest to prompt my doubts, which aimed to explain (according to its he...