In January, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its DeepSeek-R1 model, which performed as well as the best American AI models with significantly lower training costs. Since then, China has made similarly impressive progress in areas such as quantum computing and agentic AI. With the country’s semiconductor industry and research paper outputs reaching new heights, is China set up to become the world’s biggest scientific superpower?

?今年 1 月,中國的人工智能公司DeepSeek發(fā)布了其DeepSeek-R1模型,該模型的表現(xiàn)與最好的美國AI模型相當(dāng),但訓(xùn)練成本大大降低。從那時起,中國在量子計算和智能AI等領(lǐng)域也取得了類似令人印象深刻的進(jìn)展。隨著中國半導(dǎo)體產(chǎn)業(yè)和研究論文產(chǎn)出達(dá)到新高度,中國是否準(zhǔn)備成為全球最大的科技超級大國?