Eric Siu on why China leads in AI adoption. 87% of Chinese support AI versus 46% of Americans. He traces the gap to mindset: China's culture of curiosity and experimentation versus American hesitation, even as tools like OpenAI's Codex reshape investing and work.
87% of Chinese are pro AI, right? And then 46% of Americans are pro AI. So when I showed them Neil, our agent that works inside of Slack, to most Americans it blows them away, right? To me, I'm like, whatever, I've been doing this for the last 3, 4, 5 months or so. Okay, they looked at me like I was a caveman, and they're like, they already have their agents that live inside of their chat solution. That, that's one piece, okay, which means they're just on top of it. The second piece is the person I was sitting next to, she's like, oh yeah, I use Codex to help me with my stock investments. Notice She doesn't say she uses ChatGPT or Claude. She uses Codex, which is the coding harness from OpenAI. That is also advanced as well, right? You know, I have a Chinese background, right? The reason why 87% of them are so pro-AI, it's a mindset thing. It's a curiosity thing. And so I don't think it's anything about age and show people that this is a very beneficial thing.
