“JH: China’s doing fantastic, 50% of the world’s AI researchers are Chinese [...] You walk up and down the aisles of Anthropic or OpenAI or DeepMind, there’s a whole bunch of AI researchers there, and they’re from China.”
Strongly believe that companies should stand up for who they are.
The problem with China-shedding is you can only be the best version of yourself. A Chinese company simply cannot be more American, European, or Singaporean than companies actually from those places.
Being comfortable in your own skin, being authentically yourself is key to winning in the marketplace.
Inverteum is a Hong Kong firm. HK hasn't had the best reputation since 2019, but critics will always find a reason to criticize (haters gonna hate). Like a fastball or curveball pitch in baseball, that's just an opportunity to hit a home run by telling a compelling story and countering the negative narratives. https://blog.inverteum.com/p/why-hong-kong-is-the-best-place-to-live-and-invest-from
Consider the amazing diversity of the team developing a major project at wholly american hero OpenAI:
<https://openai.com/index/dall-e-3/>
“Credits
* Core research and execution: Gabriel Goh, James Betker, Li Jing, Aditya Ramesh
* Research contributors—primary: Jim Brooks, Jianfeng Wang, Lindsey Li, Long Ouyang, Juntang Zhuang, Joyce Lee, Prafulla Dhariwal, Casey Chu, Joy Jiao
* Research contributors—secondary: Jong Wook Kim, Alex Nichol, Yang Song, Lijuan Wang, Tao Xu
* Inference optimization: Connor Holmes, Arash Bakhtiari, Umesh Chand, Zhewei Yao, Samyam Rajbhandari, Yuxiong He”
<https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-about-chip-controls-ai-factories-and-enterprise-pragmatism/>
“JH: China’s doing fantastic, 50% of the world’s AI researchers are Chinese [...] You walk up and down the aisles of Anthropic or OpenAI or DeepMind, there’s a whole bunch of AI researchers there, and they’re from China.”
Given the tourism data showing a drop in people wanting to come to the US and the recent Newsweek article (https://www.newsweek.com/china-more-favorable-united-states-donald-trump-tariffs-map-nira-data-report-2072059#slideshow/2644198), I am not sure about "Brand America", at least for the next 4 years. That said, last week's Middle East trip may begin to change minds.
Strongly believe that companies should stand up for who they are.
The problem with China-shedding is you can only be the best version of yourself. A Chinese company simply cannot be more American, European, or Singaporean than companies actually from those places.
Being comfortable in your own skin, being authentically yourself is key to winning in the marketplace.
Inverteum is a Hong Kong firm. HK hasn't had the best reputation since 2019, but critics will always find a reason to criticize (haters gonna hate). Like a fastball or curveball pitch in baseball, that's just an opportunity to hit a home run by telling a compelling story and countering the negative narratives. https://blog.inverteum.com/p/why-hong-kong-is-the-best-place-to-live-and-invest-from
"The problem with China-shedding is you can only be the best version of yourself"
Well said!