This report highlights how Chinese AI startups DeepSeek and Manus AI have rapidly reshaped the national AI scene, catalyzing a second wave of innovation with strong state support. It outlines how their success is energizing China's AI ecosystem, setting the stage for accelerated development, strategic consolidation, and potential global competitiveness in the next 12–18 months.
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Wei is a Principal Analyst in Artificial Intelligence at Counterpoint. She is also the China founder of Humanity+, an international non-profit organization which advocates the ethical use of emerging technologies. She formerly served as a product manager of Embedded Industrial PC at Advantech. Before that she was an MBA consultant to Nuance Communications where her team successfully developed and launched Nuance’s first B2C voice recognition app on iPhone (later became Siri). Wei’s early years in the industry were spent in IDC’s Massachusetts headquarters and The World Bank’s DC headquarters.
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