Second, deep learning is very active, with much of the same “gold-rush” feeling I observe in the US. First, there seems to be quite of bit of money available, from classic VCs, from industrial sponsors and even from US semiconductor companies – Xilinx and NVidia have investments in these high-profile startups in China, but I’m sure other major players do too. The most striking reflection on the China startup scene is how much it feels like the Silicon Valley environment, and how it seems to differ from other Asian markets. It reinforced a few long-standing observations, but also shifted my point of view in important ways. In the most fundamental ways, neither the technology, nor the applications, nor the startup process are so different from what you find in Silicon Valley or Europe, but the trip was full of little eye-openers about the deep learning in China, and about the entrepreneurial process there. I have just return from a ten day tour of Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hangzhou, meeting with deep learning startups and giving a series of talks on the worldwide deep learning market. We do, however, live in interesting times, in no field better epitomized than in deep learning, and in no location more poignantly than in China. Well, it turns out, the Chinese origin for this pithy phrase is apocryphal – the British statesman, Austin Chamberlain, probably popularized the phrase in the 1930s and attributed it to the Chinese to lend it gravity. Everyone knows the Chinese classic curse, “May you live in interesting times”.
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