Decouple

Dr. Chris Keefer

There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.

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Thursday AI with Chinese Characteristics
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Decouple

Feb 12, 2026
1¼ hours
61 MB

In this episode of Decouple, Chris sits down with Kyle Chan of the High Capacity Substack to unpack what “AI with Chinese characteristics” actually means. Rather than framing artificial intelligence as a simple US–China race to AGI, they explore how each country is building AI inside very different institutional systems. The conversation covers DeepSeek, compute constraints, quantization, and the surprising reality that many Chinese AI labs operate with far less capital than their American counterparts while still publishing at the frontier. They dig into China’s AI enabling stack, from universities and state-backed labs to energy buildout...

Decouple

AI with Chinese Characteristics

Dr. Chris Keefer

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