Tension between national-security hawks and the biggest American technology companies over China policy has burst out into the open. The trigger: a Biden administration plan to limit the global sale of advanced artificial-intelligence chips.

By 2020, the plan called for “iconic advances” in AI to demonstrate its progress. Then in late 2022, 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 that shaved around $1 trillion off China's tech sector.

TOKYO -- China is rapidly catching up with the U.S. in research on artificial intelligence, an analysis of papers accepted by major AI conferences suggests, as the two countries establish themselves as rival camps in the field.

The launch of ChatGPT-3.5 in December 2022 triggered a global surge in interest in large-scale AI models, with major Chinese companies such as Baidu,

Sweeping Western sanctions against Russia have made AI chips a challenge to obtain.

Despite U.S. efforts, the domestic China AI industry is rapidly innovating — and massively undercutting U.S. AI model prices.

Nvidia’s high-profile CEO, Jensen Huang, made a splash on Monday night when he unveiled in his keynote speech a series of new products, including a $3,000 personal AI computer that will be powered by the highly sought-after Blackwell chip.

Discover how China’s AI models are challenging OpenAI and Google in the race for innovation. Local AI deployment offering privacy and

A technology industry group on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden's administration to refrain from issuing a last-minute rule that would control global access to AI chips, warning the restrictions would jeopardize U.

Much more than computing dominance is at stake; the struggle for AI primacy between the United States, China, middle powers, and Big Tech is fundamentally a competition over whose vision of the world order will reign supreme.

There is evidence, however, that China still faces significant obstacles that may slow its implementation of military AI. These challenges include the PLA’s lack of militarily relevant training data,

Under Vladimir Putin's orders, Russia and China will work together on AI development, and this could further power Moscow's war.