The US has dominated the global technology market for decades. But China wants to change that. The world’s second largest economy is pouring huge amounts of money into artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Crucially, Beijing is also investing heavily to produce the high-end chips that power these cutting-edge technologies. Last month, Jensen Huang – the boss of Silicon Valley-based AI chip giant Nvidia – warned that China was just “nanoseconds behind” the US in chip development. So can Beijing match American technology and break its reliance on imported high-end chips? China’s DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the tech world in 2024 when it launched a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The announcement by a relatively unknown startup was impressive for a number of reasons, not least because the company said it cost much less to train than leading AI models.

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