The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a \u201cmisperception\u201d, according to the author of The New Geography of Innovation, a recently published book that maps the rise of new tech powers around the world excluding the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe geography of innovation is shifting\u201d, the book, which came out in July, concluded. Covering tech start-ups across China, the UK, Singapore and Canada, among other countries, author Mehran Gul said China today \u201cis the only competitor\u201d against the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cOthers are trying, but they\u2019re not good enough to be dangerous\u201d, Gul \u2013 winner of the Financial Times\/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize, who previously covered tech topics for the World Economic Forum and the United Nations \u2013 said in his book.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rise of DeepSeek and China\u2019s open-source AI models, such as Alibaba\u2019s Qwen, have proved that China\u2019s AI research is strong\u201d, Gul said in an interview.<\/p>\n
In September, DeepSeek\u2019s landmark peer-reviewed article on its R1 reasoning model was published by the British journal Nature, marking a significant leap for China\u2019s AI community. Meanwhile, Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s Qwen family is powering the world\u2019s top 10 open-source large language models (LLMs), according to AI developer platform Hugging Face.<\/p>\n
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