Tsinghua University, Beijing is a leading institution in science and engineering. There is quiet but valuable work being done in the Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence. Researchers try to decode the working of the human mind.
This university is a combination of Stanford, MIT and Carnegie Mellon all rolled into one. DeepSeek’s arrival has stunned the tech industry. There is newfound confidence in young researchers. The University has provided manpower to the country’s four top startups. It has established a lead in subjects such as engineering, AI, computer science and chemical engineering.
The government wants to encourage advances in AI, and provides tax breaks, subsidies backed by supportive policies. The researchers are hailed as national heroes. Xi, the Chinese president is a graduate of this University. Its graduates play a role in AI companies, including Alibaba Group and ByteDance. Researchers have developed an AI Chip called Accel to compete with GPUs from Nvidia.
They have developed a drug discovery engine called Ddrug-CLIP and a training protocal known as Absolute Zero Reasoner enabling AI models to learn on their own, without any human-fed data.
The faculty and students create IP — 100 most cited AI research papers. They receive more patents per year than any other US institute. The University got almost 5000 patents of AI and ML between 2005 and 2024. Almost a thousand patents have been received last year. There is staggering innovation in less than a decade. It shows how China is advancing to be an AI superpower.
The AI journey in China starts at elementary school level. It creates a mere tech-savvy student pool, There were 3.57 million students well versed in STEM.
Still the most influential AI patents are held by the US. The US models are top performers. Harvard and MIT are still ranked higher. Yet, it is a fact that China is closing the gap,
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