Minister Li Lecheng, the proponent of administrative measures for ethical review and services of artificial intelligence science and technology, speaks during a conference on behalf of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Miit.gov.cn China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has formalized nearly 200 key AI standards and confirmed that a city-level ethics review…
5 min readNew DelhiJul 20, 2026 07:40 AM IST Since 2018, the World AI Conference (WAIC) has been held annually in Shanghai to showcase Chinese advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). What has largely been an industry event has attracted global attention this year, thanks to the participation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Several heads of…
The recent news about China developing the world’s fastest supercomputer will trigger the predictable debate about whether Beijing has finally overtaken the US in advanced computing. The answer, at least for now, is no. The new LineShine system that topped the latest TOP500 ranking is not the world’s most powerful machine for artificial intelligence (AI)…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question. Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text…