Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. Read More
Daily Archives: March 16, 2019
Kai-Fu Lee on China’s Race to the Future
Silicon Valley may be the center of the tech world right now, but Kai-Fu Lee says that’s going to change, and fast. Lee—a computer scientist who worked at Apple, Microsoft, and Google before becoming a venture capitalist—predicts that China will soon overtake the United States as the world leader in innovation. Read More
‘AI Superpowers’: A Conversation With Kai-Fu Lee
China is overtaking the U.S. as the leader in artificial intelligence
China is executing its strategy for AI while the U.S. is still wrestling to create one.
Researchers, companies and countries around the world are racing to explore — and exploit — the possibilities of artificial intelligence technology. China is working on an extremely aggressive multi-billion-dollar plan for government investment into AI research and applications. The U.S. government has been slower to act. Read More
Understanding China's AI Strategy
Clues to Chinese Strategic Thinking on Artificial Intelligence and National Security. Read More
How China Is Dominating Artificial Intelligence
China is widening their lead in AI globally by concentrating on a core set of best practices that energize entire industries to pilot and adopt AI for unique use cases. Read More
China is about to overtake America in AI research
China will publish more of the most-cited 50 percent of papers than America for the first time this year. Read More
China is catching up to the US in AI research — FAST
AT THE WORLD’S top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from twin cameras collected under varied conditions, such as sunny and poor weather. Artificial intelligence software proficient at that task could help the US tech giants with money-making projects such as autonomous cars or augmented reality. But the winner was an institution with very different interests and allegiances: China’s National University of Defense Technology, a top military academy of the People’s Liberation Army. Read More
China's research in artificial intelligence 'far outranks' Huawei
Three charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by three companies
More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. Read More
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