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Export Controls? What

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export controls? From American

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Public Media, this is

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Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan

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McCarty Carino. Last

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week, the US added 50

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more Chinese companies to its

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export control list. The sale

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of American hardware for use

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in supercomputing and artificial intelligence

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has been restricted since 2022.

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Part of a long-standing competition

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between the US and China

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to lead the world in

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advanced technologies. The release of

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AI models from Chinese company

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Deep Seek stunned industry experts

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in January because they appear

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to be as capable as US-made

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models, despite potentially more

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limited access to the most

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advanced chips. The BBC's Laura

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Bicker has this story. Capture

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pawn. Head in hands. Hetero

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Timmy mutters to himself as he

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tries to beat a robot powered

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by artificial intelligence at a game

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of chess. This is not an

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AI showroom or an AI lab.

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This is a middle-class

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living room in Beijing. It's

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like a little-class living room

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in Beijing. It's like a

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little-class living room in Beijing.

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or a little friend, he

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says, as the mechanical arm

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moves another chess piece. China

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is embracing AI in its

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bid to become a global

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leader in technology by 2030,

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and Timmy's mom, Yan Shu,

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wants to be ahead of

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the curve. This is an

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inevitable trend. We will coexist

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with AI. Children should get

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to know it as soon

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as possible. This is what

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the Communist Party hopes to

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hear as it pushes AI-developed.

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to revive the economy. We'll

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be right back. You are

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listening to Marketplace Tech. I'm

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Megan McCarty Carino. We're back

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with the BBC's Laura Bicker.

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At an exhibition in Shanghai,

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you get a glimpse of

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the kind of developments they're

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looking at. So I'm watching

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two teams of robots play

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one another at football. Now

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it's not perfect when they

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fall over. They do need

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a little help getting back

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up. What's just tumbled there?

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Humanoid robots also walk among

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us alongside back flipping dog-like

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bots made by a rising

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star in China called unitry.

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But there's one name on

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everyone's mind. Deep Sea. Deep

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Sea. Deep Sea. Deep Sea.

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Deep Sea. Deep Sea was

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a breakthrough Chinese chatbot that

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caught the world's attention in

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January. It was seen as

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proof that Chinese companies can

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overcome US export controls on

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advanced chips. Can you make

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the dinosaur move? Oh. Interest

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in AI. is now fostered

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at an early age in

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China. Hearing successful. What you

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can hear is a moving

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brick dinosaur built by an

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each-year-old. He's also learning code

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to make it move forward

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and back, and of course,

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roar. These bots are sold

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to children as young as

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three across the world, but

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made here in China. Abbott

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views the vice president of

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Wales Bot. Other countries have

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AI education robots as well,

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but when it comes to

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competitiveness and smart hardware, China

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is doing better. Deep Seek

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is worth 10 billion run

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of advertising for China's AI

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industry. It has let the

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public know that AI is

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not just a concept, but

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it can indeed change people's

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life. China has inspired

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public curiosity. technology,

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engineering has more

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graduates in

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science, technology, engineering

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world than anywhere

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else in

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the world, giving

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it an

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edge. an AI model.

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As companies plan their companies

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plan their next move, President

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Xi continues to invest

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heavily in AI in in

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robots and advanced tech,

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in preparation for the

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race against the race

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that he hopes China

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will eventually win. China was

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the BBC's Laura win. That

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I'm Megan the BBC's that's

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Bicker. I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace

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is is APM.