A former ByteDance engineer says China's AI industry is 'far behind' the US — and the gap is getting worse

A former ByteDance engineer says China's AI industry is 'far behind' the US — and the gap is getting worse

Zhang Chi, a former ByteDance LLM engineer, says China's AI is falling further behind the US.Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA former ByteDance engineer says China's AI industry is still far behind the US.Zhang Chi said China's model benchmarks perform well but don't translate into real-world results.Tech leaders like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang believe China is catching up and could even pull ahead.For all the talk that China is catching up…