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But opponents say the concept of a middle-technology trap fails to accurately depict China’s current status because it has surpassed the United States in some regards. China’s rapid economic growth in the past few decades has benefited greatly from technological innovation in developed economies, according to Liu Shaoshan, director of embodied intelligence at the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society.
One vehicle engineer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said China has largely developed home-grown solutions in “core of car manufacturing such as batteries, electric driving systems and electronic control systems”. “While the open-sourcing of LLaMA by Metal has inspired many companies developing ChatGPT applications, the technical route behind Sora is quite different. Even if the source code were available, replicating similar text-to-video applications would be difficult,” he told Shanghai-based news outlet The Paper.
In the near future, she expects China’s hi-tech growth to manifest in areas such as the internet, green tech, alternative energy, biotechnology, material science and application, robotics, artificial intelligence and manufacturing. Zhou said more Chinese companies are anticipating further decoupling and the entire ecosystem has been mobilised to anticipate, locate and fill in the gaps which “creates the demand for substitutes and alternatives which were not there”.The development of the product was widely hailed inside China as an example of how the country could find ways to reduce the impact of US sanctions, while Zhou described it as an example of “how much pressure these companies are under to find alternatives”.