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China has also moved away from isolated AI applications towards industry-wide systems, often coordinated by local governments, according to Nie Jun Yu, Huawei Technologies’ global chief architect of digital government, who also spoke at Monday’s conference at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
In provinces such as Zhejiang and Guangdong, local authorities were coordinating AI adoption across entire industries rather than leaving individual companies to develop their own systems, Nie said.
China’s approach differed from that of the United States and Europe as it had a greater emphasis on making AI widely accessible through infrastructure rather than competing solely on model capabilities, he added. ...
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