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ecshafertoday at 5:04 PM1 replyview on HN

China isn't that cheap for labor. And if you think the guys in Z.ai or xiaoxiao aren't the exact same guys from Tsinghua, Peking, MIT, Stanford, CMU, etc. and pulling in amazing salaries you'd be wrong.


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throwaway67678today at 5:18 PM

I'd assume there's more to the cost of labor than the salaries of the elite folks who do the R&D, but fair point