Engineer Kuang Kaiming was assigned to a team developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for a Shanghai start-up. The company went with two leading open-source software libraries, Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s Pytorch.
The decision to adopt US core technology over Chinese alternatives was telling of China’s weakness in basic AI infrastructure.
Despite the country’s success in producing commercially successful AI companies, the open-source coding repositories used to build the technology tend to be American.
Kuang’s company, whose AI product detects abnormalities in X-rays, is by no means alone.
Nearly all small- to medium-sized Chinese AI companies rely on the US-originated o
Nov 22, 2019