A flashback from September 2017:
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
Putin, speaking Friday at a meeting with students, said the development of AI raises “colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now.”
He warned that “the one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world.”
Putin warned that “it would be strongly undesirable if someone wins a monopolist position"...MORE
I don't think the Russians moved as fast as they could have.
In 2016 we posted "Artificial Intelligence: What Could Derail NVIDIA? A Lab in Shenzhen; A Basement in Moscow; An Office in Bristol (NVDA)"
The office in Bristol: "Sequoia Backs Graphcore as the Future of Artificial Intelligence Processors" (NVDA; INTC)
The GOOG was the "lab in Shenzhen": AI: "Google moves into Shenzhen in latest China expansion" (GOOG; NVDA)
ICYMI—Chips: "Russian scientists create chip that accelerates development of 6G networks"
Graphcore
was the Office in Bristol, they came out of stealth mode by announcing a
$50 million investment from Sequoia and then a $200 million funding round from Microsoft, BMW et al. The GOOG was the "lab in Shenzhen": AI: "Google moves into Shenzhen in latest China expansion" (GOOG; NVDA)
and.....unfortunately
for my hope of joining the prognosticating pantheon, the Moscow AI chip
effort seems to have withered on the vine and our spies appear to have
joined the mafiya and were last seen zipping along Tverskaya Street in
an armored Mercedes full of Ukrainian hookers and crypto hackers.
However! We do have this from Tass to offer until I figure out what the heck happened to the AI chip project....
