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I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

SpeculationResearchAug 28, 2026

Rest of World Publisher Gordon Saft traveled to China with a delegation of media, technology, policy, and finance leaders to study its AI and robotics industries, 18 months after DeepSeek's launch reshaped open-source AI. He reports that China's similarities to the U.S. surprised him more than its differences, with intense focus on deploying AI into robotics, manufacturing, and electric vehicles. He frames the piece around Carsten Höller's Beijing exhibition "Two."

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