Lionel Sujay Vailshery
Research expert covering cloud computing and emerging tech industries
Generative AI in China - statistics & facts
In the shadows of Silicon Valley’s AI giants, Chinese companies are quietly engineering a technological ecosystem that could shape the global artificial intelligence landscape. The central government in Beijing has stated for years that the development of domestic artificial intelligence capabilities is a key policy objective. Together with a large-tech sector and a tech affinity among the population, China was primed to become a hotbed for generative AI applications and companies. Since the large language models and image generators have found their way into the mainstream, Chinese companies have been building a domestic GenAI ecosystem, straddling between government oversight and pressure from a fast-paced and competitive industry.
