At least the Soviet Union only produced one “Sputnik moment”, when the launch of its orbiting satellite in 1957 administered a galvanising shock to the US scientific and defence establishment. America’s current superpower rival, China, is claiming them on a regular basis, the launch of the DeepSeek AI large language models being one among several. But for an array of green technologies, notably batteries and electric vehicles, the US seems content to shrug and let China win.
至少,蘇聯只製造過一次「斯普特尼克時刻」(Sputnik moment)——1957年,蘇聯發射軌道衛星,對美國科學和國防圈子中的人造成巨大沖擊。美國當今的超級大國競爭對手中國則頻繁製造此類時刻,DeepSeek人工智慧大型語言模型的面世就是其中之一。但在一系列綠色技術領域,尤其是電池和電動汽車,美國似乎無所謂,任由中國勝出。