Nina Xiang on DeepSeek, US-China AI Competition

Nina Xiang provided expert commentary on CGTN, discussing DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence sector, and U.S.-China AI competition.

The AI war/competition framework is misguided. The key issue isn’t technological (who’s got the most advanced models or open/closed source). The real battleground is cultural or civilizational.

The computer vision AI wave (2014-2019) is a clear example of how the global AI landscape is shaped by value choices, not just technological ones. Chinese companies utilized computer vision for surveillance, for both good and sometimes excessively invasive use cases – something the West largely shunned.

Gen AI could be shaping up to be another clash of civilizations, where knowledge and perception of reality become increasingly divided along cultural lines. If social media deepened societal fractures, Gen AI has the potential to go even further—reshaping our cognition according to preexisting values and narratives.

No single country will dominate AI. The real choices are cultural. We should know how those cultural choices would be made in the East and West. Those don’t change.

A Collection of Nina Xiang’s Latest Publications on Forbes and Nikkei Asia

Here is a collection of Nina Xiang’s latest publications on Forbes and Nikkei Asia (online and on print).

U.S. should learn from its failure to take down Huawei
Feb 2, 2024
Nikkei Asia

Huawei Technologies’ return to the smartphone market last August with a 5G model competitive with Apple’s iPhone came as a surprise to U.S. policymakers who thought that Washington’s sanctions on the company had largely knocked it out of market contention…

China’s AI sector has no time for end-of-the-world worries
Dec 18, 2023
Nikkei Asia

The annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference, hosted in the sleek Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, is China’s showcase event for what has become one of the world’s hottest sectors…

Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei Pushes Forward With Ambitious Plan To Dethrone Android
Dec 13, 2023
Forbes

Hundreds of technical experts from many of China’s biggest state-owned and private companies, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Telecom, Meituan, and Baidu, all gathered in Beijing last month. The purpose behind the meeting was for their staff to receive training so they could be certified as developers on Huawei’s Harmony Operation System (OS)…

Metaverse No More? ByteDance And Tencent Scale Back VR Ambitions
Nov 17, 2023
Forbes

Two years after ByteDance acquired Chinese VR (virtual reality) headset manufacturer Pico for a whopping $1.3 billion, the tech giant is now reportedly downsizing and restructuring its VR division…

Chinese AI is not the threat the U.S. thinks it is
Nov 10, 2023
Nikkei Asia

It is high time for the world to realize that China is not becoming the artificial intelligence superpower that many have feared. ChatGPT came from the U.S., not China. Despite an official goal of leading the world in AI by 2030, Chinese technology companies are struggling to catch up with their U.S. counterparts. It is a safe bet that foreseeable groundbreaking AI innovations will not come from China either…

Chinese Smartphone Makers Aim To Beat Apple And Samsung In Generative AI
Nov 6, 2023
Forbes

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook recently declared that they “never felt an urgency to be first, we’ve always felt an urgency to be best, and that is how we go into this [artificial intelligence] as well.” The company is reportedly planning to start implementing generative AI on the iPhone in late 2024…

Nina Xiang Attends D3 Bahamas Web3 Conference

Nina Xiang is invited to speak at D3 Bahamas Web3 Conference held on Oct 10-12, 2023 at Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas.


The conference featured speakers including Philip Edward “Brave” Davis, the prime minister of the Bahamas, and other high-level government officials from the Bahamian central bank and securities commission.

Nina Xiang Scheduled To Speak At Three Prominent Conferences

Nina Xiang is scheduled to speak at three prominent events, please register if you are interested in attending virtually or in person.

31 May – 3 June 2022; Singapore

Asia Tech x Singapore is Asia’s flagship tech event where technology intersects with society and the digital economy.

9 June, 2022; Washington DC

Our Immersive Digital Future: How Extended Reality May Affect International Relations

7-9 November 2022; Banff, Alberta, Canada

Cyber Summit 2022 is a gathering of Western Canada’s public, education and start-up technology leaders.