Some of China’s top minds in artificial intelligence publicly warned that the superpower has only a slim chance of catching up to the US in tech.
Officials from Alibaba, Tencent, and Zhipu cautioned that despite the global hype surrounding Chinese AI — two Chinese AI unicorns went public last week — the sector is too stretched and lacks the resources to rival American giants OpenAI and Anthropic.
They cited US export controls on chips as constraints on innovation; one China tech analyst suggested the tech leaders were trying to lobby Beijing to allow purchases of powerful Nvidia H200 chips.
China is reportedly poised to approve the imports, despite a top-down push for technology self-sufficiency.