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Source: Global Times

Financial Times, July 31, original title: Understanding China’s pragmatic AI plan, subtitle: The US has an advantage in breakthrough innovation, while China excels in execution The United States and China have the two most important artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems in the world. Geopolitical tensions can easily lead to opposing views of the two countries. China's AI is considered to be "both behind and ahead of the United States." In fact, the United States and China are implementing completely different strategies.

Since the US company OpenAI launched its chatbot, the world has been racing to build big language models. China is hampered in this race by two factors: a lack of access to advanced US chips, which limits China's computing power. OpenAI and others are scaling up their big models, while Chinese companies must focus on efficiency; they are also limited by the data they can access. China's Personal Information Protection Law imposes strict data protection standards. These restrictions mean that Chinese companies have more incentive to produce AI services built on smaller language models. These models may not be as powerful as large models, but they are cheaper to create and run.

China’s tech ecosystem is informed by this pragmatism. This means that while the U.S. ecosystem has an advantage in breakthrough innovation, China excels at execution: finding product-market fit, scaling it up, and making it affordable. The World Intellectual Property Organization’s recent Patent Landscape Report on Generative AI shows that China filed more than 38,000 patent applications from 2014 to 2023, compared to 6,276 in the U.S. Of course, patents don’t equal breakthroughs. But China’s large number of patents translates into more products. One area worth watching for Chinese AI applications is electric vehicles. Chinese companies may not produce superhuman AI, but “good enough” human-car interaction AI will become popular in China before it is elsewhere.

China's tech sector is often seen as a giant underpinned by state-driven ambitions. In reality, effective regulation and (external) geopolitical constraints mean that China has an advantage in some areas while struggling to catch up in others. AI is the world's most transformative technology, and both China and the United States can contribute to it. After all, the most profound challenges facing humanity - from tackling climate change to curing cancer - are not China's or America's, but the world's. (Author Jennifer Scott)

Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, August 1, original title: Despite chip supply constraints, China is narrowing the gap in artificial intelligence with the United States Despite lacking access to advanced chips, China is closing the gap with the United States in AI.

Chinese technology companies are working hard to create their own large language models. Several Chinese companies have been able to put their AI-generated video tools in the hands of users around the world. In contrast, although OpenAI, based in San Francisco, was the first to demonstrate such capabilities, its tools are not yet widely available. Chinese companies have also launched open source models that allow anyone to build their own AI systems, thereby contributing to the development of global AI. (Author Ben Jiang, translated by Chen Junan)