China Gets a Jump on Trying AI Everywhere From Cars to Birdbaths

Amid the keynote speeches and product unveilings at CES this month, the Las Vegas electronics trade show delivered an important geopolitical message: Chinese companies are rapidly embedding artificial intelligence into a sprawling range of real-world products, taking the AI rivalry between Washington and Beijing from chatbots and image generators into the realm of robots, automobiles and consumer products.

Chinese players were omnipresent with quirky, AI-infused offerings in Nevada. A startup called Glyde showed off a smart hair clipper promising to deliver perfect fade cuts without a trip to the barber.