On Point | Is Chinese AI 'riding wake of US'?

Imagine a speedboat with a water skier in tow. That's how The Economist pictured the China-US AI race: The US drives, China rides the wake. "A lot of the frontier research is just spoofing our models. And it'd be like, you're pulling a skier on a boat," Abdul El-Sayed, a new US senator-elect who just won his seat in the midterm elections, made similar remarks in a recent interview with CBS. Catchy imagery—but does it match reality? Is Chinese AI merely following behind, or is it broadening access to the technological sea? We hear from Z.AI CEO Zhang Peng, Tsinghua Professor Xue Lan and Emerge Labs founder Mike Luan to explore these questions and more.