Big Technology Podcast · 2026-07-29 · 61 min · 11,687 words

How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao

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How does China keep catching up to the US in AI despite having much fewer state of the art resources at its disposal? And what does it mean if USAI labs permanently lose their lead? To China. We'll talk about it with the leading China analyst, Grace Xiao. Right after this.

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast. A show for Cool Headed. And new ones conversation of the tech world and beyond. Today we're gonna talk all about China's rise in AI, which is really now a multi-year. Phenomenon. And whether the United States can maintain any semblance of a lead over China.

Now that Kimi K three has effectively equaled Maybe not the frontier frontier of USI model, but enough frontier. To make us question. Whether the lead will be maintainable. At all.

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