This month marks the third anniversary of significant AI computing chip export restrictions imposed by the United States on China. Has the stranglehold slowed China’s progress? Hardly. In a special report last week called “Un-killable Chinese AI” (打不死的中國AI) Taiwan’s Commonwealth (天下) magazine examined China’s resilient artificial intelligence sector across four major Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen. In a note accompanying the series, editor-in-chief Chen Yi-shan (陳一姍) summed up the key reasons for China’s AI resilience: “The vast domestic population, diverse industries of the world’s second-largest economy, plus an efficient national system for mobilizing resources and fierce competition among tech giants have created China’s un-killable AI,” she wrote.
