Shifting in the global AI race is happening in open-source software. China’s open-weight LLMs is creating a form of functional parity that neither side openly predicted.

President Trump spoke by phone to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Monday November 24 and later posted on Truth Social, “Our relationship with China is extremely strong!” The warm feelings from Washington came on the heels of the two leaders holding a productive meeting in Korea recently and scheduling several more get-confabs for the year ahead.

This year, China has come up with some impressive technological feats. But as 2025 draws to a close, its latest invention may be the grandest yet: a 1,243-mile-wide computing power pool, essentially allowing the country’s top computing centers to operate as a unified system.

Investors are plowing money into Chinese companies involved in AI despite growing competition between Washington and Beijing over the technology.

Semiconductor materials linchpin Resonac Holdings Corp. is eyeing solid growth from Beijing’s ambition to build its own chip industry, leaving the door open for further investment in China in the years ahead.

Chinese AI chip startup Biren Technology aims to launch a Hong Kong initial public offering in the coming weeks, four sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) shares fell Wednesday as chip stocks came under pressure following reports of a major breakthrough in China's semiconductor ambitions and uncertainty around Oracle's massive data center financing plans.

Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.

China employs a ‘corner overtaking’ strategy, overtaking leaders at pivotal technological paradigm shifts. Since it is difficult to catch up with South Korea in traditional semiconductor processes, it has set AI chips as the key breakthrough.

President Donald Trump’s decision to approve previously banned exports of Nvidia Corp.’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence chips to China could turbocharge the People’s Liberation Army’s technological ambitions,

US start-up Gloo's Flourishing AI Christian benchmark tested how the output of AI models 'help people flourish', CEO Pat Gelsinger said Chinese artificial intelligence models from Alibaba Cloud and DeepSeek have edged out US-developed models to feature in the top six of a new ranking of leading AI models' alignment with Christian worldviews.