What does not kill me makes me stronger
What does not kill me makes me stronger (German: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker) is part of aphorism number 8 from the "Maxims and Arrows" section of Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (1888).
It is quoted or alluded to by many other works, with minor variants in wording.
The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations. New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models.
Recognizing that it will take time for China to match the US in high-performance AI compute, Chinese companies have focused on developing more efficient, less expensive AI technologies. They are also seeking to build dominant positions in open-source AI, cloud infrastructure, and global data ecosystems. These strategies enable China to offer cheaper, unrestricted AI access to countries frustrated by US policies, embedding itself into emerging markets in ways that will be difficult to dislodge.
Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped off big technology stocks after the news of the DeepSeek chatbot’s performance spread widely over the weekend. DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Hangzhou that emerged a couple of years ago from a university startup. Its stated goal is to make an artificial general intelligence – a term for a human-level intelligence that no technology firm has yet achieved. It’s not there yet, but this may be one reason why the computer scientists at DeepSeek have taken a different approach to building their AI model, with the result that it appears many times cheaper to operate than its US rivals.
Another reason it appears to have taken the low-cost approach could be the fact that Chinese computer scientists have long had to work around limits to the number of computer chips that are available to them, as result of US government restrictions.
Nvidia is one of the companies that has gained most from the AI boom. It went from being a maker of graphics cards for video games to being the dominant maker of chips to the voraciously hungry AI industry.
Would the AI chip blockade eventually push out the Chinese AI chip?
What is DeepSeek not doing?
It hasn’t reached artificial general intelligence, the threshold at which AI starts to reason and which OpenAI and others in Silicon Valley are pursuing. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has cautioned that breakthrough is unlikely to be imminent. But it does seem to be doing what others can at a fraction of the cost.
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
