Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes
Beijing's military focuses on swarming drones that can pick off prey or robots that can chase down enemies
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch calls claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US a “fairy tale”, and China's open-source tech is “probably stressing” US CEOs
Claims that Chinese technology for artificial intelligence lags the US are a “fairy tale,” Arthur Mensch, the chief executive officer of Mistral, said.
An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, vs. 134/4,497 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers
WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI's Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.
Chinese AI startup Zhipu says it is limiting GLM Coding Plan access after strong demand, taking only 20% of its current daily new subscriptions from January 23
China's Zhipu is limiting access to its coding assistant after strong demand for a new AI model siphoned off computing resources.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications”
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications”
Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said selling advanced artificial intelligence chips …
Sources: ByteDance expands its cloud via sales hires and lower prices; IDC: ByteDance had nearly 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, vs. Alibaba's 23%
Deep discounts, vast data and bespoke AI agents fuel new challenge in China's multibillion-dollar enterprise market
A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China
The state-backed survival contest aims to find the best indigenous AI models. — Late last year, more than a thousand people converged …