US chokehold on China’s AI progress ‘unlikely to succeed’, says Washington-based think tank

China’s robust academic advancement and state-backed funding have made the nation a major challenger to the US in AI, according to ITIF

Ben Jiangin Beijing
An exhibit of an AI model for lunar sciences at a Big Data industry expo in Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou province. Photo: Xinhua

US efforts to hold back China’s artificial intelligence (AI) advancement “are unlikely to succeed”, as the mainland finds ways to skirt Washington’s export curbs and nurture local innovations, rapidly challenging American dominance in the technology, according to recent research by a US think tank.

Since Microsoft-backed US start-up OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chat bot in late 2022, China has been increasing investments nationwide to catch up in the field of generative AI (GenAI).
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