Chinese education is superior to Western – Telegram founder Durov, warning that DeepSeek’s AI success is just the beginning
Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov has attributed China’s rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) to its highly competitive education system.
Durov noted that China’s education system fosters “fierce competition” among students, contrasting this with Western educational approaches, where competition is often minimized to avoid hurting students’ feelings.
He warned that removing transparency in student performance can make school feel meaningless for ambitious teenagers.
Durov’s comments come in the wake of the success of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which has developed an open-source reasoning model without access to cutting-edge US chips and at a fraction of the cost. He cautioned that unless the US education system undergoes significant reforms to encourage competition and recognize excellence, China’s growing dominance in technology appears inevitable.
Whither Singapore which had un-recognize the top achievers in A-levels ?
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Doesn't matter whether chinese uni is top or not, you can be sure our G will still send all our scholars to ang mo uni. Our G just love to create more banana. My suggestion is for sillyporean to study in Engdia uni instead, sure to get top job when this sillyporean return to sinkingland.
What is the point of asking USA education system to undergo significant reforms to encourage competition and recognize excellence, when the USA Government is afraid to face open competition and using underhand tactics to stifle those that outperform the USA in many fields. As I always believe, no competition will stifle innovation, and no innovation means stagnation.
This is not just about stifling Chinese innovation. They USA already did that against Toshiba of Japan and Alstrom from France long ago and using the same formula to keep countries down. More recently such tactics were used against Huawei, then followed by Tik Tok and now going into action against Rednote and DeepSeek. Is this the kind of mentality that will change with a change in its education system? Obviously not. This is only empty rhetoric and not actually going to walk the talk. This is not how things move in the USA, unlike in China.
Had China not been coming out with all the cutting-edge domination in EVs, high-speed rails, batteries, infrastructure construction, space exploration, telecommunication, mobile phones, shipbuilding and now aviation, the USA would still be thinking that it has the edge and can keep its head in the clouds. The sudden realization of what China is capable of doing gives them a wake-up call to take a closer look at the Chinese education system. And they found out the real reason why China had been progressing beyond what they could not expect.
It is perhaps not too early to say that the USA is just trying to close the stable doors after the horses have bolted. It is too little too late to realize it is now doing the catching up. Changing the country's education system takes years to bear fruit and time is not on the USA's side. Just like trying to secure raw materials and rare earth that the early China bird already had the worm in its mouth.
China's dominance in technology appears inevitable and the final outcome is not just dependent on who has the best high-end chips or the best lithography machines. Without the technical personnel with the necessary background through education, innovation is impossible. Give the best EUV machine or the top end chips to a non-technical person or company and it is just a piece of hardware. So, which is more important. Both are and complement each other.
The USA may have the ability to control EUV machines and high-end chips but lacks the kind of education system turning out scientists and engineers to benefit from its control. And changing an education system is not a year of two job. It is more a generational undertaking of decades in the making.
China has the scientists and engineers to know how to make full use of machines and chips to do a better job. This is not to say that China is distancing itself from trying to produce its own EUV machines and high-end chips. China is already well on its way to work on this as a priority. What I mean is using the example of DeepSeek's rise and its innovation that does not need multi-billion dollars investments to attain.
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