How Far Behind Is China in the AI Race?

Eric Schmidt says China is now six months behind in the race to build reasoning and intelligence systems. A year ago or two years ago, China looked a year or two behind. He was part of the group that put chip restrictions on China and assumed the limits would work for about 10 years. Chinese teams still figured out the algorithms and knowledge with essentially one-tenth of the energy and some factors less of performance.

Many studies show the six-month gap. Whether the gap will get slower or bigger is a huge debate in the industry. At the moment the contest is a two-horse race. The race for intelligence is the race of a millennium, and children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will all be affected in fundamental ways by what is occurring now.