AI superpower ambitions take centre stage as Trump and Xi meet

Beijing's focus is more about deploying the technology across its economy, China analyst Lizzi Lee from the Asia Society Policy Institute said."AI isn't the moon landing," she said. "The US may lead at the frontier, while China could still gain enormous economic and geopolitical leverage by making capable AI cheap, open and ubiquitous."Future Publishing via Getty ImagesYang Zhilin co-founded Moonshot, one of China's most successful AI models, in 2023AI is also very energy hungry, and China is very well placed there, Rebecca Arcesati told Tech Life on the BBC World Service."Chinese AI companies are able to access the electricity they need for a much lower cost and that really is an advantage," she said.In robotics - a field of AI that some believe will be world-changing - China has become the world's biggest manufacturer of robots, with more than two million working in the country's factories, the International Federation of Robotics estimated.The nation is also the world's biggest maker of humanoid robots, accounting for more than nine-tenths of global shipments in the first half of the year, according to independent policy institute Chatham House.Chinese AI developers have showed "remarkable resilience and innovation" in spite of the shortage of advanced American chips, analyst Lian Jye Su from tech research firm Omdia said.