Thanks to government support and global links, Chinese applied AI companies like computer vision firms SenseTime and Megvii are now household names. China’s fast-growing talent base and vibrant ecosystem of companies and public research labs are leading AI application development and producing high-impact AI research.
得益于政府支持和全球链接，中国应用的AI公司像计算机视觉公司Sensetime和Megvii现在是家喻户晓的名字。中国快速增长的人才基础以及公司和公共研究实验室的生态系统正在领导AI应用程序开发并产生高影响力的AI研究。
But China’s main weakness lies in its historical links with US industry: it trails in the fundamentals. China still cannot match the quality of US-designed AI chips and relies on machine learning frameworks developed by US firms. While China’s AI future is for now tied to choices made in Washington, in the long run, Chinese large language models and other types of AI systems may well prove good enough for the tasks they need to fulfill: enabling industrial applications and boosting military and security capabilities.
但是中国的主要弱点在于它与美国工业的历史联系：它在基本面中落后。中国仍然无法与美国设计的AI芯片的质量相匹配，并依赖于美国公司开发的机器学习框架。尽管中国的人工智能未来与华盛顿的选择相关，但从长远来看，中国大型语言模型和其他类型的AI系统很可能足以满足他们所需的任务：启用工业应用并提高军事和安全能力。
