China sets its sights on AI leadership

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Chinese President Xi Jinping is pushing for the country to be a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 as Beijing competes with Washington to gain an edge in advanced technology. The release of AI chatbot DeepSeek, which stunned industry experts in January, gave a boost to China’s hopes of catching up to the U.S. despite restrictions on the advanced chips used to power AI.

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0:00.0	Export controls? What export controls? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm
0:08.2	Megan McCarty Carrino. Last week, the U.S. added 50 more Chinese companies to its export control list. The sale of American hardware for use in supercomputing and artificial intelligence has been restricted since 2022. Part of a long-standing competition between the U.S. and China to lead the world in advanced
0:39.1	technologies. The release of AI models from Chinese company DeepSeek stunned industry experts
0:45.8	in January because they appear to be as capable as U.S.-made models, despite potentially more
0:53.1	limited access to the most advanced chips.
0:56.4	The BBC's Laura Bicker has this story.
0:59.9	Catch your pawn.
1:01.7	Head in hands, eight-year-old Timmy mutters to himself as he tries to beat a robot
1:08.8	powered by artificial intelligence at a game of chess.
1:15.1	This is not an AI showroom or an AI lab.
1:19.2	This is a middle-class living room in Beijing.
1:24.9	It's like a little teacher or a little friend, he says,
1:28.1	as the mechanical arm moves another chess piece.
1:35.0	China is embracing AI in its bit to become a global leader in technology by 2030,
1:41.5	and Timmy's mom, Jan Xu, wants to be ahead of the curve.
1:47.2	This is an inevitable trend. We will coexist with AI.
1:52.0	Children should get to know it as soon as possible.
1:55.5	This is what the Communist Party hopes to hear as it pushes AI development to revive the economy.
2:03.2	We'll be right back.
2:05.9	You're listening to Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.
2:09.7	We're back with the BBC's Laura Bicker.
2:12.8	At an exhibition in Shanghai, he get a glimpse of the kind of developments they're looking at.
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