Sun Ninghui, one of China’s leading computer scientists, has taken a rare swipe at Chinese technology giant Huawei, indicating an emerging rift between China’s academic community and its industry.
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In a video clip posted on video-sharing service Bilibili on Sunday night, Sun criticised Huawei’s development model as too closed and monopolistic, saying the company’s control of the industrial chain would not help China to defeat the United States in their ongoing tech war.
“From chip manufacturing to software to large AI model to computing power network, it’s best for everyone else not to participate, and [Huawei] will take over everything,” he said, implying that Huawei dominated the technological chain in China.
“I think we are using this kind of Chinese-style closure and monopoly to fight Western-style monopoly and containment, which we certainly can’t win.”
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It was not clear when or where Sun gave the speech.