China wants to challenge the U.S. in AI – here's what Chinese giants are doing with the tech

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cnbc.com, Sept. 11, 2024 – 

Global attention around generative artificial intelligence has been focused on big U.S. companies like OpenAI, Alphabet's Google and Meta

But some of China's giants, from Alibaba to Tencent, have launched their own AI models over the past 18 months, looking to capitalize on the hype around the technology.

China's ambitions to become a world leader in AI adds another layer to the country's technology battle with the U.S. China has been seen as playing catchup to the U.S. but the race is heating up.

Generative AI includes applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has the ability to generate text, images and even video based on user prompts. These applications are powered by large AI models which are trained on huge amounts of data, such as Google's Gemini.

Chinese technology firms have had to tread carefully in releasing their technology as Beijing has strict requirements for AI models and their uses.

CNBC runs through the big Chinese AI models developed by the country's biggest tech firms.

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