{"id":76128,"date":"2026-01-29T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/28\/china-lags-behind-us-at-ai-frontier-but-could-quickly-catch-up-say-experts"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:00:38","slug":"china-lags-behind-us-at-ai-frontier-but-could-quickly-catch-up-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76128","title":{"rendered":"China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visions<\/p>\n<p>Standing on stage in the eastern China tech hub of Hangzhou, Alibaba\u2019s normally media-shy CEO made an attention-grabbing announcement. \u201cThe world today is witnessing the dawn of an AI-driven intelligent revolution,\u201d Eddie Wu told a developer conference in September. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/09\/its-missing-something-agi-superintelligence-and-a-race-for-the-future\">Artificial general intelligence<\/a> (AGI) will not only amplify human intelligence but also unlock human potential, paving the way for the arrival of artificial superintelligence (ASI).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASI, Wu said, \u201ccould produce a generation of \u2018super scientists\u2019 and \u2018full-stack super engineers\u2019\u201d, who would \u201ctackle unsolved scientific and engineering problems at unimaginable speeds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/28\/china-lags-behind-us-at-ai-frontier-but-could-quickly-catch-up-say-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visionsStanding on stage in the eastern China tech hub of Hangzhou, Alibaba\u2019s normally media-shy CEO made an attention-grabbing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3492,808,41,50,800,3382,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-artificial-intelligence","category-alibaba","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-computing","category-nvidia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76129,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76128\/revisions\/76129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}