{"id":22039,"date":"2026-06-18T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-ai-lead-vulnerable-to-china-amid-structural-challenges-scholar\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:27:04","slug":"us-ai-lead-vulnerable-to-china-amid-structural-challenges-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-ai-lead-vulnerable-to-china-amid-structural-challenges-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"US AI lead vulnerable to China amid \u2018structural challenges\u2019: scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the US holds the crown for cutting-edge chips, China’s advantages in energy and industrial applications could ultimately erode America’s artificial intelligence<\/span> “moat”, according to a leading Chinese scholar.<\/div>\n

Li Cheng, founding director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World (CCCW) at the University of Hong Kong, said in a co-authored paper on Wednesday that Beijing could dismantle Washington’s AI dominance within the next 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n

“The US AI moat still has a strategic deterrent and delaying effect on competitors in the short term, but its long-term sustainability faces multiple structural challenges,” said the paper, which featured Li as the lead author along with two co-authors.<\/p>\n

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Borrowing the “five-layer cake” framework espoused by Nvidia<\/span> CEO Jensen Huang, the researchers benchmarked the two superpowers across the core pillars of the AI sector: energy, semiconductor chips<\/span>, AI infrastructure, AI models and AI applications.<\/div>\n

They found that while the US maintained a decisive stranglehold in advanced chips and AI infrastructure, China had secured clear leads in energy and AI applications. Meanwhile, the gap in AI models – where the US still boasts the world’s most sophisticated systems – was narrowing to “a manageable range”, they said.<\/p>\n

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The paper highlighted China’s embrace of cost-efficient, open-source models as a major catalyst.<\/p>\n

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By driving down adoption costs, China had accelerated AI integration across its economy, the researchers said. This stood in stark contrast to the premium, closed-source models favoured by leading US firms, potentially offering China “a new strategic reference for ultimately winning the long-term technological competition”, they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

US AI lead vulnerable to China amid ‘structural challenges’: scholar<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the US holds the crown for cutting-edge chips, China’s advantages in energy and industrial applications could ultimately erode America’s artificial intelligence “moat”, according to a leading Chinese scholar. Li Cheng, founding director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World (CCCW) at the University of Hong Kong, said in a co-authored paper on…<\/p>\n

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