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This year, China has come up with some impressive technological feats. But as 2025 draws to a close, its latest invention may be the grandest yet: a 1,243-mile-wide computing power pool, essentially allowing the country’s top computing centers to operate as a unified system.
The turning point came when DeepSeek released its V3 and R1 models, that were on par with OpenAI's GPT and Meta's Llama models at the time US start-up OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT on November 30 three years ago sent China's technology industry scrambling to get up to speed on the latest artificial intelligence developments.
Investors are plowing money into Chinese companies involved in AI despite growing competition between Washington and Beijing over the technology.
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China activates massive distributed AI system spanning 1,243 miles nationwide
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China is reportedly rejecting US-made Nvidia H200 AI chips, favouring domestic alternatives. This move challenges a US strategy to gain market share with less advanced exports. Beijing is also reportedly offering substantial incentives to boost its local chip industry,
President Donald Trump's AI executive order blocks state regulations to compete with China, but creates regulatory vacuum that could harm Americans without federal guardrails.
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China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain
Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the
Government push for power supremacy transforms Inner Mongolia. Tech leaders worry about a U.S.-China “electron gap.”