In 2017, Beijing unveiled an ambitious roadmap to dominate artificial intelligence development, aiming to secure global leadership by 2030. By 2020, the plan called for iconic advances in AI to demonstrate its progress.
OpenAI's release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month government crackdown.
Fast forward to today, and a flurry of impressive Chinese releases suggests the U.S.'s AI lead has shrunk, with models from Alibaba and Tencent rivaling those of OpenAI.
In May 2024, Eric Schmidt had confidently asserted that the U.S. maintains a critical lead, but recent advancements from Chinese developers challenge this assertion significantly.
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