China is quickly closing the once formidable lead the U.S. maintained on AI research. Chinese researchers now publish more papers on AI and secure more patents than U.S. researchers do. The country seems poised to become a leader in AI-empowered businesses, such as speech and image recognition applications. But while China has caught up with impressive speed, the conditions that have allowed it to do so — the open science nature of AI and the nature of the Chinese market, for instance, will likely also prevent it from taking a meaningful lead and leaving the U.S. in the dust.
How China Caught Up
How was China able to leapfrog countries that had been working on this technology for much longer to build a world-leading AI research infrastructure in just 20 years?
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