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Kai-Fu Lee: The U.S. and China Are Winning Different AI Races

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Date Published
10 June 2024
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10 June 2026, 04:00 pm

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Who is really winning the AI race? At the WSJ Leadership Institute CEO Summit in London, Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 01.AI and Chairman of Sinovation Ventures, joins WSJ Leadership Institute President Alan Murray to explain why the answer depends on whether you're talking about models, enterprise adoption, consumer applications, robotics or the next generation of AI-powered devices.

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This discussion evaluates the diverging trajectories of AI development between the United States and China, highlighting a divide between frontier model innovation and large-scale application deployment. Kai-Fu Lee emphasizes how geopolitical competition shapes the prioritization of computing power and data access, which directly influences the security and reliability of global AI ecosystems. The analysis touches on the structural risks of rapid AI proliferation in consumer and enterprise sectors without unified international safety standards. For global governance, these insights underscore the difficulty of coordinating catastrophic risk mitigation when the leading superpowers are pursuing fundamentally different technological strategic advantages.