March 2, 2026 — In this episode of Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis's China’s DeepSeek Moment series, the discussion takes stock of China’s AI landscape one year after DeepSeek first captured global attention. What began as a surprise model release has evolved into a broader surge across China’s AI ecosystem — from new flagship models by major tech firms and startups, including Alibaba, ByteDance, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Zhipu, to accelerating open-source momentum and ByteDance’s viral Seedance 2.0 video-generation model. The conversation also examines new progress in domestic semiconductors and embodied AI, highlighted by Unitree’s humanoid robots stealing the spotlight at China’s Spring Festival Gala. CCA Fellow on the Chinese Economy Lizzi C. Lee moderates a conversation with CCA Honorary Senior Fellows Alvin Wang Graylin and Paul Triolo to assess whether the gap between the United States and China is narrowing, shifting, or fundamentally misunderstood, and to explore what the next phase of AI competition, cooperation, and policy may look like. (47 min., 57 sec.)
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