AI Race in China: From Foundation Models to Real-World Applications

Chinese AI firms pivot from large language models to practical deployments in healthcare, finance, and logistics. Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been at the heart of China’s digital transformation strategy for the past decade. In the early 2020s, the focus was largely on

Why China’s Real AI Race Is Happening Inside the Country, Not Across the Pacific

For years, global discussions about artificial intelligence have focused on a supposed head-to-head battle between the United States and China. In this view, the US dominates with its frontier models and immense computing resources, while China is cast as the challenger struggling under

Why The Real AI Race Is Happening Inside China, Not Across The Pacific

For years, global discussions have described artificial intelligence as a high stakes contest between the United States and China. Analysts often focus on who will train the largest frontier models, who has more computing power and which superstar labs can push the limits

Google’s New Gemini Model Puts China’s AI Start Ups On The Defensive

Google DeepMind’s launch of its latest artificial intelligence model has triggered intense discussion across the global tech community, especially in China. The new model, Gemini 3 Pro, has quickly risen to the top of industry rankings, overtaking OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 and earning Google

China’s AI Push Becomes A Central Force In The Upcoming 15th Five Year Plan

Throughout history, major technological shifts have redefined the world. Britain’s mastery of steam engines ignited the First Industrial Revolution, while the United States drove the Second Industrial Revolution through the development of electricity, computers, and the internet. Today, China believes artificial intelligence and

China’s AI Stock Rally Still Has Plenty of Room to Grow, Goldman Sachs Says

China’s artificial intelligence-themed stock rally is continuing to gain momentum, and according to Goldman Sachs, there is still significant room for these valuations to rise. Contrary to fears that the surge resembles a speculative bubble, analysts believe the trend is rooted in real

China Ramps Up Frontier AI Compute Clusters Nationwide

China is rapidly strengthening its position in artificial intelligence by expanding a new wave of frontier compute clusters across multiple regions. These advanced facilities are designed to provide immense computational power for training large scale models, supporting enterprise level AI deployment, and enabling

US Lab Introduces Fully Open AI Models in Bid to Challenge China’s Open Source Lead

A prominent US research organisation has unveiled a new suite of artificial intelligence models that it says are “fully open,” positioning itself as a direct challenger to China’s fast growing influence in the open source AI space. The Allen Institute for AI, often

Alibaba doubles down on super scale computing infrastructure as national AI demand accelerates

Alibaba is intensifying its commitment to large scale computing infrastructure as China enters a period of rapid expansion in artificial intelligence development. Speaking at the opening session of the 2025 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen CEO Eddie Wu Yongming emphasised that the AI

China accelerates frontier AI model development

China is accelerating the development of frontier artificial intelligence models as researchers, technology companies and state institutions intensify efforts to strengthen national competitiveness in advanced computing. The current wave of model building emphasises greater scientific depth, larger parameter scales and improved training efficiency.