Farrell Gregory @efarrellgregory

fellow @JoinFAI Washington, DC Joined November 2024

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Farrell Gregory @efarrellgregory

19 hours ago

you shouldn't be doing twitter discourse about the new chinese ai export controls instead, email MOFCOM at [email protected] and participate in the public comment period

MTS @MTSlive

19 hours ago

FAI @efarrellgregory breaks down China's new AI export controls: “The Chinese Ministry of Commerce put together this long list of a range of different AI technologies, well beyond models, some hardware stuff, some infrastructure stuff. It’s basically a tool that could allow them

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Samo Burja @SamoBurja

4 days ago

Attention San Francisco: I will be giving a talk explaining why civilizations collapse and why our own high technology civilization might be uniquely vulnerable, this Sunday evening for @palladiummag. Tickets are limited. Get yours here: luma.com/palladium-civi…

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Ben Southwood @bswud

4 days ago

China has become the most important manufacturing economy in the world because it is a continent-sized Silicon Valley. worksinprogress.co/issue/chinas-g… Every Chinese city govt acts as a VC firm trying to create clusters in its region, because it has both the means and incentive to do so. Local govts generate their revenues, nearly all of which they keep, from selling leases on land and from stakes they have taken in local companies, which together allow them to capture economic spillovers. Chinese officials have their entire careers graded and determined by how much growth they have been able to create in the areas they run. Career progression is determined according to a great tournament that pits official against official and gives promotions to whoever has grown their region the most. If they don’t reach a certain stage by a certain age they are blocked from promotion forever. This is why so many economic clusters have centred on Chinese cities, for high- and low-tech products alike. Shaodong makes 70% of the entire world's cigarette lighters; Danyang makes half of the world's spectacle lenses; Zheng'an makes 1/7 of the world's guitars; Datang a third of its socks. Whereas many of the West’s most important city governments capture only a small amount of the spillovers from successful clusters, and thus have very little reason to foster them, in China, they get a huge amount of the upside and can re-invest it in further growth. This also gives them a great incentive to solve problems for companies, like when Shanghai's govt got Tesla's factory there built even faster than Elon himself had expected (and twice as fast as his Fremont, CA factory). But this is not some exotic 'oriental' innovation – this is how America used to do things when it grew fastest, in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Catching up with China on advanced manufacturing does not require a wise and strategic approach, let alone authoritarianism or the end of democracy. It may just mean fixing city government. This is why I care so much about local in Britain and America: if we give our own local governments the same incentives and means to grow, the crazily dysfunctional entities we have become used to may be transformed into corporation-like bodies that are ruthlessly focused on making their cities rich, safe and prosperous. Read more in Works in Progress worksinprogress.co/issue/chinas-g…

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afra wang @afrazhaowang

a week ago

a sharp article by @efarrellgregory on the hubristic rationalistic claims about “what China ought to do with AI”—even though such rationalism is itself a product of historical contingency, as China pursues its own sinomodernity. palladiummag.com/2026/10/06/rat…

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Will Manidis @WillManidis

a week ago

there’s no policy that isn’t technology policy

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Farrell Gregory @efarrellgregory

a week ago

@curl_justin pointing to this towards the end: palladiummag.com/2026/10/06/rat…

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Farrell Gregory @efarrellgregory

2 weeks ago

SINOMODERNITY assuming symmetry between chinese/american perspectives on machine intelligence is already insufficient expect chinese views on the use and potential of machine intelligence to become more distinct and as such worth rigorously understanding read @palladiummag:

PALLADIUM Magazine @palladiummag

2 weeks ago

Rationalism and Divergent Sinomodernity Why do Americans who forecast artificial intelligence capabilities misread China? Read the new article from @efarrellgregory (link below):

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Farrell Gregory @efarrellgregory

a month ago

MiniMax has had a rough year on the HK exchange. since listing, the company has lost basically all gains. interesting comparison among publicly-listed Chinese live labs: Zhipu is up 500% since listing looking forward to seeing more China lab coverage on @MTSlive

Brent Liang @liangsays

2 months ago

first official appearance from one of china's 5 "ai tigers" on @MTSlive @MiniMax_AI was founded in dec 2021 by several computer vision researchers from @SenseTime_AI. its name comes from the minimax algo on jan 2026, minimax become a publicly listed company raising $619m