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China's Rush To Dominate AI Comes With a Twist: It Depends on US Technology
China's tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing's regulations and a sagging economy aren't helping. From a report: In November, a year after ChatGPT's release, a relatively unknown Chinese start-up leaped to the top of a leaderboard that judge...
by at least a year and may be falling further behind, according to more than a dozen tech industry insiders and leading engineers, setting the stage for a new phase in the cutthroat technological competition between the two nations that some have likened to a cold war. Even as the United States has tried to slow China's advancements by limiting the sale of microchips and curbing investments, it has not held back the practice of openly releasing software to encourage its adoption. systems from the United States -- primarily Meta's LLaMA -- has fueled deeper questions about the country's innovation model, which in recent decades surprised many by turning out world-beating firms like Alibaba and ByteDance despite Beijing's authoritarian controls.
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