China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”

Sam Altman has said the U.S. is getting it wrong on China’s AI game. The OpenAI CEO told a few reporters in San Francisco that Donald Trump’s latest ban on advanced chips won’t stop China from pushing forward in artificial intelligence.

Smart glasses shipments in China are expected to hit 2.9 million units in 2025. New AI-driven features, lower prices, and competition from Xiaomi, Huawei, and other players are hyping things up.

Cambricon’s prospects have been boosted by the Chinese government’s determination to use local AI chips in data centres.

Now Liangzhu, with its myriad AI startups, represents the future. Investors from all over China flock there to meet growing numbers of founders, app engineers and other AI developers and dreamers. It is six months since a barely known AI startup,

U.S. companies and policymakers are mobilizing their response to free-to-use AI models from China.

In 2023 and 2024, more than 500 new data centre projects were announced across the country, in places such as Inner Mongolia and Guangdong.

Beeneet Kothari says Chinese AI stocks are more attractive as they're in infancy only. Here are names he recommends owning.

As Washington tries to limit its progress, Beijing is spending more to build an artificial-intelligence ecosystem that doesn’t rely on U.S. technology.

In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including varying amounts of details. For example, a Facebook post ( archived) said this robot would cost under 100,000 yuan (less than $14,000):