Major technical leaps such as new AI interfaces or new collaborative paradigms often emerge first from the US ecosystem. But once a path is proven, China tends to move quickly through tutorials, communities, products, and supply chains to make that path industrial.
Invention and scale are different capabilities
- The place that invents a new paradigm is not always the place that scales it fastest.
- AI agents may follow the same pattern we have seen in consumer electronics and other sectors.
- The real story is not one product, but the ecosystem that forms after people begin to experience a new mode of collaboration.
Adapted for English from the original Chinese essay.