{"id":128482,"date":"2025-09-08T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128482\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:07:18","slug":"china-is-suddenly-deploying-ai-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128482\/","title":{"rendered":"China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the United States rushes head-first into a self-inflicted economic crisis<\/a> in an attempt to develop AI with human-level intelligence, China is eying a different goal.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Chinese State Council unveiled its ten-year plan<\/a> to fully integrate AI into every aspect of the country’s economy by 2035. Called “AI+,” the ambitious plan sees AI becoming a “key growth engine for the country’s economic development,” a transformation mirroring that of the internet age.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0recently pined<\/a>, the People’s Republic has already embraced the practical rollout of AI to huge portions of the nation’s infrastructure, from manufacturing<\/a> to meteorology<\/a>, and even in Chinese-made self-driving Teslas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out, and what their effect the initiative has on the Chinese job market. One thing’s for sure: should China fail to achieve its lofty goals, the consequences for failure are significantly lower. While the US has all but bet the farm<\/a> on the success of AI, Chinese tech firms like DeepSeek have changed the game<\/a> by using significantly less resources.<\/p>\n

Though the US spent nearly twelve times as much<\/a> as China on AI development in 2024, recent metrics show the US is mere months ahead<\/a> of the US in terms of AI benchmarks.<\/p>\n

While US tech companies do eke out some practical AI software, they do so under the eye of a handful of the most powerful tech monopolies on the face of the Earth. As a result, most of the stuff that rises to the surface is geared toward capturing huge swaths of consumers \u2014 typically generative models for churning out text, images, or video.<\/p>\n

In practice, this means the internet is being flooded with algorithmic slop<\/a>. In the meantime, the US government is focusing $500 billion worth of its attention on developing a massive AI infrastructure project<\/a>, in the hopes that it will bring the country that much closer<\/a> to human-level artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

In China, meanwhile, that kind of state backing is reserved for companies working on pragmatic uses for AI.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0the WSJ\u00a0noted, earlier this year the central government launched an AI investment fund worth some $8.4 billion, to support practical startups in conjunction with various funds run by local governments and state banks.<\/p>\n

“They [China] see highly impactful AI applications not as something to theorize about in the future but as something to take advantage of here and now,” Julian Gewirtz, a former security official with the Biden administration told the WSJ.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this more apparent than Xiong\u2019an, China’s “city of the future.” Located in the outer-Beijing province of Hebei, Xiong\u2019an is a new city planned from the ground up around the integration of 5G, AI, autonomous driving, and renewable energy.<\/p>\n

The fledgling city, which first sprouted up<\/a> in 2017, is already integrating Chinese AI company DeepSeek at nearly every level: from agricultural planning<\/a> to robotic baristas<\/a>\u00a0to triaging calls to the local government hotline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s no escaping the wave of global AI hype. Will China’s push succeed? It’s tough to say: the country\u00a0 has a mixed record<\/a> on sweeping initiatives<\/a> to remake itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More on China: Elon Musk Is Getting Destroyed by Yet Another Chinese Company<\/a><\/p>\n

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