China promotes "open source" and "inclusive AI" as a global governance narrative, challenging US dominance. President Xi Jinping emphasized open-source development at WAIC, aiming to set global AI standards and attract Global South support, despite US export controls.
Chinese developers' success in AI architectural innovation is seen by some analysts as potentially weakening the rationale for vast US spending on AI infrastructure, challenging US dominance in frontier models and computing hardware.
Two Chinese AI companies, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, unveiled new models claiming to compete with top US systems like OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. These open-weight, aggressively priced models have surprised markets, raising concerns about US tech dominance, investment in AI infrastructure, and national security implications, despite years of warnings about China's AI advancements.
A Beijing-based unicorn released its Kimi K3 large language model, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and native vision capabilities. The model's performance on certain benchmarks has reportedly closed the AI gap with US counterparts to weeks, while remaining significantly cheaper than American alternatives.
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the World AI Conference in Shanghai to promote open-source AI, challenging US dominance and advocating for global collaboration. China launched WAICO, a 29-nation coalition, to give Global South nations a voice in AI governance, while also developing its own advanced open-weight models.
Chinese startup Z. ai's GLM-5.2 AI model is gaining attention in the West for its competitive coding and agent capabilities at a lower cost than US rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. This trend, dubbed a 'mini DeepSeek moment,' is boosting open-source adoption but faces data security concerns from US enterprises.
Spirit AI, a Chinese company, has claimed the top spot on the RoboArena global leaderboard for embodied intelligence, surpassing Nvidia's projects. This development highlights the intensifying tech competition between China and the US in the field of robotics.
US President Donald Trump’s US$500 billion Stargate AI project is being undermined by the war with Iran, a conflict that is accelerating the decline of the United States, according to Chinese analysts. The project, designed to cement US dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, was announced in January last year, shortly after Trump’s return to power, and involves leading companies such as OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle. A critical component of this plan was building the world’s largest AI...
Automotive lidar sensor prices have collapsed from approximately $80,000 in 2016 to just $200 by 2025, enabling broader adoption across vehicle trims. Chinese manufacturers have overtaken US firms as the dominant market players, shifting global leadership in this critical automotive safety technology. US lidar units currently range from $1,000 to $75,000.
With global attention fixed on the US and Iranian shipping blockades in the Strait of Hormuz and how many vessels have traversed the critically important waterway, a leading Chinese investment bank has been calculating the long-term gains and losses and how they could rewrite the global economic order. The United States was on the horns of a dilemma over the strait that might herald an acceleration of Washington’s strategic retreat and its increasingly transactional relationships with other...
