America or China? Speculation is at fever pitch. The world’s most famous artificial-intelligence company, OpenAI, is American. Models produced by DeepSeek, a Chinese competitor, are almost as good—and cheaper.
Following DeepSeek's release of its cutting-edge and free large language model early this year, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun corrected those who surmised China is surpassing the United States in the technology.
The race to launch new models may speed up adoption and push businesses to reassess control, customization, and strategy.
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.
The new processors integrate Loongson’s central processing unit cores, which are based on its in-house instruction set architecture.
China's tech may already be ahead in the AI race as U.S. sanctions backfire, driving innovation and global realignment.
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu AI unveiled a free AI agent on Monday, joining a wave of similar launches in China's increasingly competitive AI market.
China’s Zhipu is making its new AI agent free to use as domestic competition to build emerging artificial intelligence technologies heats up.
China’s skewed focus means that the field is flooded with high-end GPUs because the “training” phase requires massive computational power and underutilized data centers.
Samsung has turned to Chinese technology groups to prop up its ailing semiconductor division, as it struggles to secure big US customers despite investing tens of billions of dollars in its American manufacturing facilities.
President Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs could hamstring Big Tech's billion-dollar efforts to build AI infrastructure in the country.