China's AI ecosystem gears up to challenge US
ByteDance is reportedly developing an AI model rivaling Anthropic’s most advanced Mythos system, and DeepSeek is touting its efforts to build a Claude Code challenger.
China's AI ecosystem is striving to challenge the United States in artificial intelligence, with companies like ByteDance and DeepSeek working on rival models to those of Anthropic and Claude Code. Despite Beijing's efforts to create a firewall around its homegrown technology, some former investors of Manus AI have returned to back the Chinese startup, which was previously sold to Meta amid regulatory orders.
However, China's policymakers face challenges due to volatility in high-value tech stocks and a price war among domestic AI firms, which could potentially undermine corporate profits.
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