Companies in Hangzhou, China, are striving for global AI dominance as the technology race between China and the U.S. heats up. A cluster of elite startups, or the "six dragons", are working around the clock to beat California's Silicon Valley at its own game.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has hinted that China will soon have homegrown "next generation" chips to support its AI development.

Now Liangzhu, with its myriad AI startups, represents the future. Investors from all over China flock there to meet growing numbers of founders, app engineers and other AI developers and dreamers. It is six months since a barely known AI startup,

Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.

About 500 robot athletes from 16 countries competed in Beijing as the United States and China race each other to shape the future of AI.

As Washington tries to limit its progress, Beijing is spending more to build an artificial-intelligence ecosystem that doesn’t rely on U.S. technology.

China has rolled out a chatbot on its Tiangong space station. Its mission: to improve safety, navigation, and coordination in orbit.

Sam Altman has cautioned against the use of export controls and has warned that China can probably build inference capacity faster than the U.S..

In a surprising reversal of the United States’ years-long technology restrictions on China, President Donald Trump last month allowed Nvidia to resume sales of a key AI chip designed specifically for the Chinese market.

Discover how China’s energy infrastructure is powering its AI dominance while the U.S. struggles with aging grids in the global AI race.

DeepSeek announced the v3.1 model through a message on WeChat, China's widely used social platform, and on the Hugging Face community website. The new model boasts