As China’s DeepSeek – a relatively recent entrant in a crowded field of companies producing artificial intelligence (AI) models – threatens the dominance of the United States in the nascent but highly competitive sector, the province that nurtured the upstart company is taking steps to become a world-leading hub for frontier technologies of all types….
As part of a 10-year plan to transform China into a global education superpower, Beijing has encouraged joint projects involving overseas universities with highly ranked science and technology programmes to help boost the country’s self-reliance in cutting-edge fields. The government called on local authorities to “enhance high-quality international collaborations in academia, industry and research” while…
Microsoft‘s president and vice-chairman, Brad Smith, cautioned the West against assuming China is lagging behind in technological development. Speaking at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal, recently, Smith told CNBC that China is either close to or has even surpassed Western nations in many technological areas.“I think one of the dangers, frankly, is…