Breakthroughs in Chinese AI models are sending shockwaves through Washington and Silicon Valley. Chinese companies are narrowing the AI gap despite vast differences in computing power and resources. It comes as the White House is planning to redirect billions in funding from universities to individuals in a bid to accelerate AI innovation. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Amrith Ramkumar. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.
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New breakthroughs in powerful low-cost Chinese A.I. models are sending shockwaves through Washington and Silicon Valley, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the A.I. gap, despite vast differences in computing power and financial resources.A pair of new A.I. models released in recent days are what's called open-weight. They're free to use and the developers say perform at levels approaching the best models made by American A.I. giants like Anthropic and OpenAI.It all comes as the White House announces a new plan to redirect billions of dollars in funding from universities to individual researchers in a bid to accelerate A.I. innovation.To break it all down, we're joined now by Amrith Ramkumar. He's tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal.Thanks for being with us.
