The Pursuit of General Intelligence Needs No Specialization
China has quietly realized it cannot create general intelligence — because it doesn’t exist yet. So instead of aiming for the foundational breakthrough, they’re pivoting into “niche AI,” packaging it as agent systems… as if agents aren’t already a commodity layer everywhere else.
This is how the copier plays the game:
when they can’t build what matters, they niche-maxx.
But you should never niche-maxx before achieving peak ascension.