{"id":327382,"date":"2025-12-05T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:42:11","slug":"different-strokes-huaweis-founder-makes-subtle-dig-at-lofty-pursuits-in-ai-by-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327382\/","title":{"rendered":"Different strokes: Huawei\u2019s founder makes subtle dig at lofty pursuits in AI by the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States and China are pursuing artificial intelligence<\/a> in \u201cdifferent directions\u201d, and the divergence is being reflected in the strategies that the governments and companies are adopting, according to the founder of one of the world\u2019s largest technology investors.The US is focusing on supercomputing power and large models in the lofty pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI), while China was adopting a more practical approach, using AI to solve real-world problems in development, said Huawei Technologies<\/a>\u2019 founder Ren Zhengfei.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US is seeking AGI and ASI to get answers to questions like \u2018What is human?\u2019 and \u2018What is the future of society?\u2019 They are trying to solve the whole problem [at once], but it takes time for [humanity] to know what the problem is,\u201d according to a transcript of Ren\u2019s November 14 speech to the International Collegiate Programming Contest, released on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ren\u2019s subtle dig at the US approach to AI reflects the strategy behind Huawei\u2019s own AI investments, as the Shenzhen-based company with one of the world\u2019s largest research and development budgets builds its home-grown alternatives to Nvidia\u2019s much-coveted AI processors. The strategic divergence also explains why China is racking up users and developers with open-source large language models, while US technology giants are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on building ever-larger models.<\/p>\n

\"HuaweiHuawei unveiled a range of improvements for artificial intelligence training efficiency on November 11, 2025. Photo: Weibo<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is focusing on how to get things done [with AI] to create value and fix development issues,\u201d the 81-year-old entrepreneur said.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s AI pursuit is about \u201csafe cities, improvement in public education and healthcare, automated mining and cement factories…and enabling coal miners to go to work in suits and ties\u201d, said Ren. Huawei has pioneered the application of remotely controlled mining machines and highly automated mines<\/a> in China, connected by its 5G telecommunications<\/a> infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States and China are pursuing artificial intelligence in \u201cdifferent directions\u201d, and the divergence is being reflected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25272,62,276,277,35948,49,48,95,8051,8188,6110,144650,6494,144649,12157,61,14094,182,3642],"class_list":["post-327382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agi","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asi","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-huawei","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-indonesia","tag-international-collegiate-programming-contest","tag-nvidia","tag-ren-zhengfei","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-the-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}