Dear MEL Topic Readers,
China is winning one AI race, the US another - but either might pull
ahead
During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union competed in space
technologies and nuclear armament. Now, the US and China are in a nose-to-nose
AI race. Which has advantages over the other, and which is winning?
The US has the world’s leading AI brains, such as chatbots and large
language models (LLMs), which learn, recognize, interpret human language and
data, and then generate text outputs. It also dominates microchips that run AI
and LLMs produced by Nvidia, a premier microchip provider, whose chips are manufactured
mainly by a Taiwanese chip giant, TSMC. Speaking of generative AI, only two
years after ChatGPT debuted, a highly competitive AI-powered chatbot, DeepSeek,
was launched by a Chinese AI startup. Since Chinese IT developers often publish
their code online (open source approach), they are quick to catch up
and advance. Another advantage China has is the world’s largest manufacturing
industry. It dominates the world’s EVs, drones, and robots markets, all of
which are powered by AI. In particular, China excels in humanoid robots, which
are expected to fill the labor shortages, particularly in care work, in the
fast-aging country. As the AI race is shifting to agentic AI, which autonomously
makes decisions and takes actions to achieve the goal, either country has the chance
to lead in the ongoing high-tech race.
Read the article and learn about the AI race competed by the US and China.
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