China’s push for global AI dominance
If there is a race for global domination and artificial intelligence, this may well be the starting block for China. This is Hjo, a place rich in ancient history, now emerging as China’s Silicon Valley. Home to Alibaba and Deep Seek, and coming into its own as one of the world’s leading tech incubators. I think a good idea should fulfill the three criteria. It’s something that you want to do, something you’re really good at, and something the society needs. Jang Jia is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor backing companies here,
creating hotel booking systems, intelligent coffee machines, and AI enabled glasses. AI is not just for uh professionals or like engineers or the geeky uh guys to um get a firsthand uh AI benefit, but we want everyone to enjoy the AI area. Do you think it could have happened anywhere else? Not at this speed though. Truth be told, there’s never a sin as the uh overnight success or overnight sensation. When we talk about the six dragons of Hanjo, each of them have been there for over 10 years.
The six dragons is what people now call a cluster of elite startups here. China’s rising stars in gaming,
robotics, AI, and neuroch. all working around the clock to beat Silicon Valley at its own game.The most prominent being Deep Seek, that little known startup that upended the AI world in January with its lowcost chatbot.
Even a company like Deepseek is in a building with no sign of it. And there are more. Unitry Robotics is seen here as having the potential to do for China’s robotic sector what Deep Seek did in AI.
They make humanoid and quadriped robots like G1 edu that can dance to its own beat and pack a decent punch if that’s what you want your humanoid to do. Robots are being trained in a whole range of tasks from search and rescue to working in laboratories to helping out with deliveries. Thank you.
The company figures within a year or two their robots brains will have the ability to think and make decisions. Is that scary or is it exciting? It’s exciting because you still need to give a command. It’s open source and people can based on our uh validated framework to do the secondary development. This mean uh we can push the ecosystem of the robotic industry faster.
It’s no secret the Trump administration views Chinese tech advances as a threat. The US has put export controls on chips being sold to China. It’s one of the major hurdles in the current trade war. Before Deep Seek’s shock announcement this year, a lot of US companies and policy makers had believed that China
was at least a decade behind in AI innovation.
A key part of the tech ecosystem here is Jang University known as Joda. There’s also the proximity to stalwart like Alibaba as well as state subsidies. The government here they have I think a very stable long-term strategy towards encouraging and helping young people uh to become entrepreneurs.
There have been bumps in the road though, like the big regulatory crackdown on China’s tech barons back in 2020, including Alibaba’s Jack Ma, who all but vanished. Then earlier this year, he appeared in Vogue again at a tech forum with Xiinping and Deepseek’s founder, Leang Wongfong. That meeting
was symbolic by showing that China’s Communist Party is backing the tech sector again.
The goal to transform China’s economy into an AI powerhouse. AI based on the internet. There are two
internet in the world. One is China internet. Another is the world internet. So the internet uh ecosystem in China is totally different from the world. Yet more than ever, Chinese technology firms are positioning themselves as international companies. And big or small, they’re betting cheaper AI will spark more innovation. And that China’s AI boom is only beginning.
