Communications of the ACM
Chinese Firms Racing to the Front of the AI Revolution
Chinese firms like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba are quickly catching up with U.S.-based market leaders in the artificial intelligence space such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, and in some cases, are surpassing their competition.
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Chinese companies are outpacing U.S. firms in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, according to reports from the U.S. government and others.
The number of Chinese academic papers published on deep learning has surpassed the number of U.S.-published papers on the topic, while more AI-related patents are being submitted in China compared to the U.S.
In addition, Shigeoki Hirai at the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan says Chinese AI patent growth has overtaken the U.S. in terms of both quantity and quality.
Other reports indicate AI, robotics, and the Internet of Things are spurring venture capital investment in China, which is expected to increasingly move into AI this year.
The most successful Chinese AI effort is Baidu, which has founded a deep-learning facility in Silicon Valley, and whose work in speech recognition is considered unmatched. Baidu also is pursuing image recognition, autonomous driving, and language translation.
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