Comment by kajman

> Meanwhile China is blowing past the world with real improvements in the real world- solar, EVs, etc. meanwhile people keep making their fancy sans serif websites about todo apps, faster than ever before. Useless.

Very little about the American economy even makes sense for keeping the edge on LLMs beyond a few years. All the things I would think would be required: energy, research, construction capacity, labor costs -- it's pretty hard to deny who's on the upswing these days. China cranking out current generation microchips will be the last nail in the coffin.