Some of China’s top minds in artificial intelligence publicly warned that the superpower has only a slim chance of catching up to the US in tech. Officials from Alibaba, Tencent, and Zhipu cautioned that despite the global hype surrounding Chinese AI — two Chinese AI unicorns went public last week — the sector is too stretched and lacks the resources to rival American giants OpenAI and Anthropic. They cited US export controls on chips as constraints on innovation; one China tech analyst suggested the tech leaders were trying to lobby Beijing to allow purchases of powerful Nvidia H200 chips. China is reportedly poised to approve the imports , despite a top-down push for technology self-sufficiency. — J.D. Capelouto