In January, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its DeepSeek-R1 model, which performed as well as the best American AI models with significantly lower training costs. Since then, China has made similarly impressive progress in areas such as quantum computing and agentic AI. With the country’s semiconductor industry and research paper outputs reaching new heights, is China set up to become the world’s biggest scientific superpower?

​今年 1 月,中国的人工智能公司DeepSeek发布了其DeepSeek-R1模型,该模型的表现与最好的美国AI模型相当,但训练成本大大降低。从那时起,中国在量子计算和智能AI等领域也取得了类似令人印象深刻的进展。随着中国半导体产业和研究论文产出达到新高度,中国是否准备成为全球最大的科技超级大国?