The Politburo held its April study session on Friday. The theme, as conveyed by the CCTV News headline, was “uphold self-reliance and self-strengthening, maintain an application-oriented approach, and promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence 坚持自立自强 突出应用导向 推动人工智能健康有序发展.”
The discussant was Zheng Nanning 郑南宁 (IEEE profile), a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University. Politburo member and CMC vice chairman He Weidong did not appear in the video from the meeting, in another sign that he is in trouble.
In this issue I have provided a full translation of the readout, but first will offer some highlights.
This section is why I say the meeting is more bad news for Nvidia in China:
Xi Jinping emphasized that to seize the initiative and gain the advantage in the AI field, breakthroughs must be achieved in fundamental theories, methods, tools, and more. We must continuously strengthen basic research, concentrate resources to overcome challenges in core technologies such…