But the AI revolution has only just begun. Today’s most powerful AI models, often referred to as “frontier AI,” can handle and generate images, audio, video, and computer code, in addition to natural language.

Chinese start-up Zhipu AI said it "strongly disagrees" with a US decision to add the company and its subsidiaries to an export blacklist, as the administration of President Joe Biden released a flurry of trade restrictions just days before he leaves office.

Pony AI Inc. (NASDAQ:PONY) announced on Wednesday that it is the first company in China to receive approval for robotruck platooning tests on cross-provincial highways connecting Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province.

BEIJING -- The added value of Beijing's digital economy totaled 2 trillion yuan ($278 billion) in 2024, up about 7.5 percent year-on-year, local authorities said on Wednesday.

Beijing and Shanghai have recently attained unprecedented levels of investment and development in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. These two cities are propelling China's swift ascent in the global AI competition.

Moving to fortify tough technology restrictions on China on its way out the door, US President Joe Biden's administration announced new regulations Monday designed to further restrict artificial intelligence chip exports.

The Biden administration has issued new restrictions on the export of US-developed computer chips that power artificial intelligence (AI) systems, in a final effort to prevent rivals like China from accessing the advanced technology,

On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it would implement new export controls on certain biotechnology equipment, citing national security concerns relating to artificial intelligence and data science.

The new rules limit the sale of advanced U.S. AI technology to all nations except close U.S. allies, in an attempt to constrain China.

The Nvidia CEO is due to arrive in Shenzhen for employees’ annual Lunar New Year celebrations around Jan 15, days before US President-elect Donald Trump gets sworn in for a second term.

Nvidia Corp. chief Jensen Huang is embarking on a trip to China this week, visiting major cities at a time Beijing is investigating his company’s domestic presence and Washington is slapping new curbs on the sale of its AI chips abroad.