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China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence have gained new visibility through its plan to develop a domestic alternative to the massive Project Stargate being pursued in the United States by OpenAI and Oracle.
While the American initiative is expected to support up to two million AI chips, Beijing is advancing its own version anchored by a $37 billion project in Wuhu.
Although far smaller than the $500 billion price tag linked to Stargate, the Chinese project is designed to consolidate existing computing capacity into a more centralized network.The Wuhu project and its scale
The site selected for this project is in Wuhu, eastern China, and it covers former rice fields along a 760-acre island in the Yangtze River basin.
