South Korean media: China's AI patents and talent have already surpassed the United States!
On November 17, the South Korean media "Seoul Economic Daily" published an article stating, "More proactive government actions, large-scale capital investments in generative artificial intelligence (AI), and access to computing power are key to a country's AI capabilities." In September of last year, British media Tortoise Media released the Global AI Index indicators, explaining the reasons why China has risen to the ranks of the two major AI powers.
According to the "AI Index 2025" released by the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI) at Stanford University in April this year, China has made remarkable progress in various fields such as AI model performance, R&D investment, and government strategy. On the platform LMSYS Chatbot Arena, which evaluates the performance of large language models (LLMs) in dialogue scenarios, the gap between the top AI models of the United States and China was 9.3 percentage points as of January 2024, but it has significantly narrowed to 1.7 percentage points as of February this year.
The performance gap between Chinese and American AI models in areas such as language understanding, multimodal understanding, mathematical reasoning, and coding has also significantly narrowed from 17.5% to 31.6% at the end of 2023 to 0.3% to 3.7% at the end of 2024.
China is narrowing the gap with the United States through large-scale government-led support and a race for speed. Its number of patents has exceeded that of the United States. The global number of AI patents increased from 3,833 in 2010 to 122,511 in 2023, with 69.7% coming from China.
The American digital economy research institution MarcoPolo analyzed in its 2024 report that as of 2022, 28% of the top 2% of AI researchers globally came from the United States, and 26% from China. Looking only at the top 20% of AI researchers globally, China surpassed the United States with a proportion of 38% (37% for the United States). The scale of AI talent training in China increased from 1,232 researchers trained by 35 universities in 2018 to 43,333 researchers trained by 535 universities in 2024.
China's achievements are comparable to those of the United States, and these achievements have been achieved in just ten years since 2015. Since the proposal of "Building a Digital China" in 2015, China has implemented a series of policies in areas such as the Internet, big data, informatization, and AI.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1849023760196811/
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