{"id":984642,"date":"2026-01-12T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984642"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:09:32","slug":"china-is-closing-in-on-us-technology-lead-despite-constraints-ai-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/china-is-closing-in-on-us-technology-lead-despite-constraints-ai-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"China is closing in on US technology lead despite constraints, AI researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China can narrow its technological gap with the US driven by growing risk-taking \u200dand innovation, though the lack of \u200badvanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the sector, the country&#8217;s leading artificial intelligence \u2060researchers said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s so-called &#8216;AI tiger&#8217; startups MiniMax and Zhipu AI had strong debuts on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this week, reflecting growing confidence in the sector as Beijing fast-tracks AI and chip listings to bolster domestic alternatives to \u200cadvanced US technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China can narrow its technological gap with the US driven by growing risk-taking \u200dand innovation, though the lack of \u200badvanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the sector, the country&#8217;s leading artificial intelligence \u2060researchers said on Saturday. China&#8217;s so-called &#8216;AI tiger&#8217; startups MiniMax and Zhipu AI had strong debuts on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this week, reflecting growing confidence in the sector as Beijing fast-tracks AI and chip listings to bolster domestic alternatives to \u200cadvanced US technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}