China bets on robotics and open source approaches to AI that has the advantage over us
The breakthrough in China’s AI has attracted global attention. Since January “Deepseek Shock“The country’s AI development is accelerated, and the gap between it and the United States in terms of technological advances is narrowing, and unless it is eradicated, it is narrowing.
However, while the US appears to focus on enterprise AI and semiconductors, powerful yet unique, large-scale language models, China has adopted a very different approach to fostering the AI industry.
“Robotics is the place in China today,” Rui MA, founder of Tech Buzz China, said on Wednesday’s Fortune Brainstorm Ai Singapore. Chinese companies have collaborated and pushed forward to integrating AI into physical hardware into what is called “embodied AI.” Even if the US has a stronger foundation model, China is moving further towards applying AI to industrial applications.
Another difference is that Paul Triolo, partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, is a heartfelt embrace of China’s open source AI. “Chinese companies have moved to open source and weighted models with a few exceptions.”
Part of the interest in Chinese AI models like Deepseek and Alibaba is due to the nature of open source, allowing developers to freely download, use and experiment with these models on their own devices.
By making source code available freely, AI companies are helping to build “soft power.”
AI developers from other countries can use these open source models to develop their own products and spread China’s global influence.
However, in the US, companies leading the US AI industry, such as Openai, Anthropic and Google, continue to shut down source code. And even the meta that helped lead open source AI development with its llama model, It is reportedly We will consider changes in strategies to focus on closed source development.
“If you’re leading, you have this incredibly valuable asset,” Toner explained Wednesday. And big companies don’t want to provide their assets for free.
However, for Chinese developers like Moonshot and Alibaba, they may not compete at the highest level, but still offer high performance, but open models are a good way to “buy a lot of good intentions.”
Toner said there is no consensus in the US about whether it will become open or closed source, and whether the fight is “whose game” yet. However, she acknowledged that the fight for open source is “certainly a place where China has the upper hand.”