TSD Summit Sessions: Selina Xu on China’s AI strategy and capabilities
Stop the World
2025/12/11
TSD Summit Sessions: Selina Xu on China’s AI strategy and capabilities
TSD Summit Sessions: Selina Xu on China’s AI strategy and capabilities

Stop the World
2025/12/11
Shownote
Shownote
Today we continue the AI theme with a TSD Summit Sessions conversation on China
and AI with Selina Xu, who leads China and AI research and strategic initiatives
in the Office of Eric Schmidt.
Who is winning the AI race between the US and China? Are they focusing on the
same things? Where do China’s capabilities stand today? How is AI being adopted
and integrated into economies? What are the benefits of China’s open-source
approach? Where does the US maintain a strategic advantage?
These are just some of the questions David Wroe tackles with Selina in today’s
interview. This podcast really covers a lot of ground, and is a must listen for
anyone interested in the development of artificial intelligence and why it
matters who is leading the development. It is also timely given the US
Administration’s decision this week to allow Nvidia to sell more powerful chips
to China, which will likely impact key areas in which Selina says the US has a
current advantage, in particular in the field of compute.
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Highlights
Highlights
This episode dives into the evolving dynamics of AI development between the US and China, moving beyond headlines to explore how each nation is shaping its technological future through distinct strategies, policies, and priorities.
Chapters
Chapters
How China Is Building AI Differently—Without Chasing AGI
00:00Why China Embraced Open Source as National Strategy (and What’s Holding It Back)
12:12Is Model Theft a Problem—or a Feature—of China’s AI Rise?
18:00Why Compute, Not Data or Code, Is China’s Biggest Bottleneck Right Now
26:25Can China’s Chip Breakthroughs Redefine Global Tech Norms?
29:45When AI Is Just One Piece of a Much Bigger Tech Rivalry
33:26Transcript
Transcript
Speaker 3: Stop the world! Welcome to Stop the World. I'm David Wroe.
Olivia Nelson: And I'm Olivia Nelson.
Speaker 3: Liv, we're back with another TSD Summit Sessions today, and it's a doubleheader this week for our listeners. We had Dave working very, ...
