I feel like they’re combining two different things with vastly different impacts in that headline.

Reaching this point has been a grind, according to Conch and Huawei, requiring substantial trial and error to get the model to work. The experience underscores how AI capabilities globally remain limited, with the impacts—including in China—potentially being felt only gradually.

And there’s the rub. It takes alot of concentrated effort and trial and error building the automation and getting all the guidelines and tuning working well.

It also takes skilled technical staff to pull off.