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China’s Race to AI Supremacy: Can It Outpace the West?

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Last updated: March 11, 2025 8:31 am
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Timmy, eight years old, was deep in concentration as he battled to outmaneuver a robot in a game of chess, his head in his hands. But this robot lived on a coffee table in a Beijing apartment, right next to Timmy, not an artificial intelligence showroom or lab. The AI revolution of China is entering common households and altering human interaction with technology.

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Why is China heavily spending in artificial intelligence?How might artificial intelligence serve China's economy strategically?How Is China Generating More AI Competency Than Any Other Nation?China's Six Little Dragons of AI: Who are they?Are global privacy issues being raised by China's artificial intelligence expansion?How Is China Making Manufacturing Less Expensive Using Artificial Intelligence?Will China Outpace Others in AI Race?

Timmy hugged his small robot companion the first night it arrived before turning in for sleep. Though he had not given it a name yet, to him, it seemed like both a friend and a teacher. He said, “It’s like a little teacher or a little friend,” as he enthusiastically showed his mother his next chessboard move.

Moments later, the robot chimes in, “Congratulations! You win.” Blinking on the screen, its spherical eyes moved the bits for a fresh game. It went on, “I’ve seen your ability, I will do better next time,” in Mandarin.

Why is China heavily spending in artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is essential to China’s aspiration to be a worldwide digital superpower by 2030. One indicator of this trend is the recent emergence of a breakthrough Chinese chatbot called DeepSeek.

With over 4,500 startups creating and marketing AI-driven solutions, investment in artificial intelligence is exploding. While universities are developing AI programs, Beijing’s schools are about to offer classes for elementary and secondary pupils on artificial intelligence.

“This is a certain direction of change. Timmy’s mother, Yan Xue, said, “We will co-exist with artificial intelligence.” “Children should start to know it early on. We should not turn away it.

She thinks her $800 robot purchase was well worth it as it can teach Go as well as chess and strategic games. As a sign of China’s always expanding AI revolution, the company behind it also intends to launch a language training program.

How might artificial intelligence serve China's economy strategically?

China’s dedication to artificial intelligence responds to geopolitical concerns as well as economic ones. 2017 saw the government designate artificial intelligence “the main driving force” behind national development. Beijing is looking to artificial intelligence as a pillar of its future as economic development slows and American trade restrictions tighten.

Over the next 15 years, the government has promised to commit 10 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) in artificial intelligence investments. Funding for artificial intelligence got yet another boost at the yearly political conference. Shortly after the U.S. tightened chip export restrictions and included more Chinese companies on its trade blacklist, China opened a 60 billion yuan AI investment fund in January.

Notwithstanding these obstacles, Chinese artificial intelligence companies are exceeding Silicon Valley expectations and accelerating quickly. “People are often surprised when they learn our chess robot is from China,” Tommy Tang, who has spent the past six months promoting his company’s AI-powered chess-playing robot, said. His company is demonstrating how rapidly China’s artificial intelligence is transforming world markets by having already sold over 100,000 devices and landed a partnership with American retail behemoth Costco.

How Is China Generating More AI Competency Than Any Other Nation?

China’s sheer engineering count is one of its strongest AI assets. More than any other nation, approximately 3.5 million Chinese students graduated in 2020 alone with STEM degrees.

“Building strength in education, science, and talent is a shared responsibility,” President Xi Jinping lately reminded party officials. China has developed a huge pool of technical knowledge ever since opening its economy in the late 1970s.

Vice-president of Shanghai-based Whalesbot, a firm creating AI-driven toys, Abbott Lyu thinks this provides China a big edge. “We have many, many engineers in this era of artificial intelligence; they are hardworking,” he remarked.

These days, the company is creating toys for young three-year-olds that teach coding. Using code created on a smartphone, a seven-year-old at a recent exhibition managed to control a roaring dinosaur created out of multicoloured bricks. One other essential element of China’s AI revolution is the focus on artificial intelligence education.

China's Six Little Dragons of AI: Who are they?

Six significant artificial intelligence companies, currently known as “Six Little Dragons” on the internet have emerged from the rise of DeepSeek in China. These businesses—” DeepSeek, Unitree Robotics, Deep Robotics, BrainCo, Game Science, and Manycore Tech are rapidly advancing artificial intelligence.

Chinese companies presented their newest ideas at a recent AI exhibition in Shanghai. Fascinating the audience were search-and-rescue robots, backflipping robotic canines, and humanoid football-playing robots.

“DeepSeek means the world knows we are here,” said Yu Jingji, a 26-year-old engineer attending the event.

Are global privacy issues being raised by China's artificial intelligence expansion?

Data privacy issues are raising as China’s AI companies develop. Beijing has a great edge since artificial intelligence systems need large volumes of data to develop and with about a billion mobile users in China.

Many in the West fear the Chinese Communist Party may have access to information gathered by Chinese AI apps as DeepSeek, RedNote, and TikHub. Many times mentioned as proof of this concern is the nation’s National Intelligence Law.

Companies like ByteDance, the owner of TikHub, assert that private businesses can safeguard user data, but worries have resulted in prohibitions in several nations. While Australia, Taiwan, and South Korea limited DeepSeek, the U.S. prohibited TikHub from government-issued smartphones.

Chinese companies are quite aware of these issues. Emphasizing his company’s dedication to data protection, Tang added, “privacy is a red line.” Beijing does admit, though, that these issues could complicate its goals related to artificial intelligence.

A statement in the state-run Beijing Daily states, “DeepSeek’s quick ascent has set off negative responses from some in the West.” It also cautioned that the global context of artificial intelligence still seems unpredictable.

How Is China Making Manufacturing Less Expensive Using Artificial Intelligence?

Chinese artificial intelligence companies are stretching the envelope of effectiveness. The sector is astounded DeepSeek’s ability to challenge ChatGPT for a fraction of the price. The next generation of artificial intelligence development is being driven by this cost consciousness.

For instance, the robotic arm Tang’s business used to move pieces was outrageingly costly when it originally created its chess robot. The unit cost, mass-produced would have been $40,000.

His company discovered it could cut expenses to just $1,000 by adding artificial intelligence into the production line. “This is invention,” he declared. ” Manufacturing now incorporates artificial engineering.”

Will China Outpace Others in AI Race?

China is mass using artificial intelligence. Already, state media feature manufacturers loaded with humanoid robots. The government declared intentions in January to create humanoid robots driven by artificial intelligence to help the aging population of the nation.

President Xi Jinping has underlined often the need of “technological self-reliance.” China is rushing to create its own substitutes as U.S. policies limit access to advanced technology.

Beijing is aware, though, that the road will be lengthy. Recently alerting against “AI triumphalism,” the Beijing Daily said China is still in “catch-up mode.”

China is currently heavily banking on artificial intelligence, and others are noticing. It is evident from Timmy’s chess-playing robot resetting the board for another game that artificial intelligence is becoming intertwined with ordinary life in China. And the fundamental issue still stands: who will eventually win the AI race if China keeps its unrelenting revolution underway?

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