{"id":12131,"date":"2025-12-13T23:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sea-change-china-narrows-ai-gap-with-us-3-years-after-chatgpt-shock\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T23:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:39:56","slug":"sea-change-china-narrows-ai-gap-with-us-3-years-after-chatgpt-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sea-change-china-narrows-ai-gap-with-us-3-years-after-chatgpt-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/12\/da8093ae-9a8a-40c7-9b66-43404ece7c1c_e602d12b.jpg?itok=xE8uxYPs&amp;v=1765531939\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"12.117647058824\">Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Tsinghua University<\/span>, to provide briefings on the implications of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">generative AI<\/span> technology, according to people with knowledge of the matter.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"12.240549828179\">China&rsquo;s Big Tech firms and ambitious <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">start-ups<\/span> rushed to roll out their own versions of AI chatbots and large language models (LLMs), as well as register them with the government, as part of efforts to keep American AI services away from the country&rsquo;s more than 1 billion <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">internet<\/span> users.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the first few months after ChatGPT&rsquo;s release, maintaining a walled garden approach on AI services was thought to be China&rsquo;s best strategy until domestic tech firms could develop products that effectively competed against those built by Western AI providers.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-117a6hs e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.12\">Zhu, known for his early investment in ride-hailing giant <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Didi Chuxing<\/span>, asked rhetorically: &ldquo;How do you make money out of just developing an LLM?&rdquo;<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fast-forward to the second half of 2025, and expectations about the technical capabilities of Chinese AI companies and the LLM business have changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on the implications of generative AI technology, according to people with knowledge of the matter. China&rsquo;s Big Tech firms and ambitious start-ups rushed to roll out their own versions of AI chatbots and large language models (LLMs), as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sea-change-china-narrows-ai-gap-with-us-3-years-after-chatgpt-shock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}