Some of America’s biggest technology companies are pushing Washington to make open artificial intelligence a national priority as China continues to build its lead in the space. Their message exposes a gap in U.S. policy: America has a chip strategy for AI. Now it needs an open-model strategy. Supporters say open models can lower costs,…
Google’s display at APEC Digital Weeks in Chengdu on July 23, 2026 did not focus on Gemini. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — The artificial intelligence race between the U.S. and China is heating up in the world’s largest continent: Asia. “The American strategy is to stop China from becoming the leading AI supplier for…
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 21: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appears during a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons…
CANADA – 2026/05/23: In this photo illustration, the CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images ChangXin Memory Technologies’ massive listing is stoking fears that its market debut could pull cash from Chinese equities, as…
HONG KONG, CHINA: Hong Kong has emerged as a major biotech fundraising hub, attracting dozens of Chinese biotech firms to list in the city. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images For years, Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Baidu headed to the U.S. to list their shares, citing its deeper capital markets…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, May 29, 2026. Caroline Brehman | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese artificial intelligence models have been distilled from…
Chinese tech company Baidu, best known for its search engine, also operates cloud, mapping and other internet-based services. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu rose Thursday on their partnership with Apple for deploying their AI tools. Hong-Kong listed shares of Alibaba rose 5% after the company confirmed…
U.S. lawmakers are considering how to curb the growing adoption of Chinese AI models by homegrown companies, as geopolitical tensions surrounding the rollout of artificial intelligence ramp up. AI has emerged as a key point of rivalry between the U.S. and China, with both nations vying for supremacy in the field. Chinese models are gaining…
Tencent’s Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu (R) discusses the tech outlook with Tencent CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — A former OpenAI researcher is now chief AI scientist for Tencent in China, and wants to build artificial general intelligence. It’s a sign of a shift in the U.S.-China tech race. AI with human-level or above…
Chinese technology consultant Kenneth Ren is training the workers of the future. The only thing is, they are not human. “We are essentially teaching robots to think on their own,” Ren, an overseas solution expert with RealMan Intelligent Technology told CNBC recently at the Beijing-based Humanoid Robot Data Training Center. Ren helps run what Chinese…