In January, Donald Trump announced from the White House that he was launching “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history,” and that “it’s all taking place right here in America.” Stargate Project, a $500 billion initiative to bolster the development of AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, is designed to…
DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng skipped the two-day Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris despite being invited to attend, as top Chinese experts in the field trumpeted the country’s role in the global AI industry. China’s AI progress, as demonstrated by advances such as DeepSeek’s open-source models, contributed to the global technology community and drove wider…
PC giant Lenovo Group, Shenzhen-based robotics firm UBTech and EV maker Geely are among the first major Chinese manufacturing enterprises to push DeepSeek technology into their products. Those initiatives reflect how much DeepSeek has caught the attention of the technology industry at home and abroad, following its recent AI breakthrough. The Hangzhou-based start-up released two…
This is the final story in a three-part series examining the future of China’s humanoid robots; competition between the US and China; and Beijing’s efforts to gain an advantage in this emerging arena. In this piece, we look at how local and national government policies and innovation centres are fuelling dreams of global technological supremacy….