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China’s AI Dragons Must Survive ‘Involution’ to Conquer the World
China’s fierce competition has turned the country’s AI industry into a cage match. Can the country’s most promising start-ups live to make it big?
This column is part of The AI Future You Want, a series about the global questions that are shaping artificial intelligence.
With his T-shirt and square-framed glasses, Zhang Peng looks more like an academic brainiac than a business executive. But the chief executive officer of Zhipu AI, one of the most storied startups in China’s booming artificial intelligence sector, groks the dichotomies of his domestic market better than most.