Employees for Mindverse in offices at the tech giant Alibaba’s Innovation Park, which the company built to lease space to startups, in Hangzhou, China, June 27, 2025. Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US. — QILAI SHEN/The New York Times
TAIPEI, Taiwan: When OpenAI blocked China’s access to its advanced artificial intelligence systems last July, Chinese coders shrugged. They would rely instead on open-source systems, where the underlying technology is shared publicly for others to build on.
At the time, that mostly meant turning to another popular American product made by Meta.
