{"id":93969,"date":"2025-08-19T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93969\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:29:06","slug":"us-underestimating-chinas-ai-progress-openais-sam-altman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93969\/","title":{"rendered":"US underestimating China\u2019s AI progress, OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019m worried about China,\u201d the 40-year-old Altman was quoted as saying on Monday in a report by American business news channel CNBC. He indicated that the AI arms race between the US and China was more complex than it appeared.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere\u2019s inference capacity, where China probably can build faster,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s research, there\u2019s product; a lot of layers to the whole thing. I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll be as simple as: is the US or China ahead?\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His assessment marks the latest sign that Chinese AI companies have been narrowing the gap with their US peers by using an open-source approach, making the source code of AI models available for third-party developers to use, modify and distribute.<\/p>\n<p>Open-source models from Chinese <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/start-ups?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">start-ups<\/a> like <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/deepseek?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeepSeek<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3317986\/chinese-unicorn-moonshot-launches-ai-model-kimi-k2-red-hot-open-source-market?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MoonshotAI<\/a>, along with those from mainland Big Tech firms led by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/alibaba?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alibaba Group Holding<\/a>, have seen increased adoption across the industry on the back of their low-cost appeal and innovative features. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m worried about China,\u201d the 40-year-old Altman was quoted as saying on Monday in a report by American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,12425,35402,9069,181,507,144,8192,3331,18732,12,38581,11379,63799,4321,1283,7047,74],"class_list":["post-93969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-arms-race","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-american","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-cnbc","tag-deepseek","tag-donald-trump","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-jensen-huang","tag-moonshotai","tag-nvidia","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}