“In the age of AI, where data is the new oil, China is the new Saudi Arabia”, venture capitalist Lee Kai-fu declared in 2018.
Washington may soon tighten export restrictions to China by targeting AI semiconductors, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A slowing economy and brutal price war in the fiercely competitive cloud market will only make monetising AI products harder.
China’s AI moment has arrived, only with far less promise than initially hoped.
China wants to become a world leader in AI by 2030, according to a 2017 roadmap released by the State Council.
Persons:
Lee Kai, OpenAI's, Xi Jinping, Goldman Sachs, Robin Li, Baidu’s, Bernstein, SenseTime, Xi, Una Galani, Thomas Shum
Organizations:
Reuters, Saudi Arabia ”, OpenAI's ChatGPT, European Union, Baidu, HK, Nasdaq, Washington, Wall Street, Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, CloudWalk Technology, Cyberspace Administration, China, State, Thomson
Locations:
HONG KONG, China, Republic, Saudi Arabia, United States, Beijing, York, Shanghai