Crazy： In Alibaba's announcement video for Qwen 3.8， the company mocks the US and openly challenges it.

The video shows Qwen 3.8 working on new chips for twelve hours. Why chips？ As is well known， this remains China's biggest bottleneck. China is largely shut out of the chip market and is now saying that it has enough intelligence - and the best intelligence - to ensure this independently （the US Chip embargos paradoxically seem to work in their favor. They go all in domestic chips）

The reference to proteins is surely an allusion to AlphaFold and Google's work on protein folding - and to the idea that China is now playing in the same league and no longer has to let the US tell it what to do.

Overall， this is a clear declaration of battle against the US. China is brimming with confidence right now.

That said， if the US slows the pace at which it develops and releases new AI models， it will certainly play directly into China's hands above all. Any slowdown would mean that China will take advantage of precisely that.

Crazy timeline we live in！