How COVID gave China an edge in A.I. battle against the U.S.

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The U.S. and China are battling for global supremacy in artificial intelligence. Amid the pandemic, China may have taken the lead. "Data is what drives A.I., and China has more data than anyone else," Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese venture capital firm Sinovation ­Ventures and author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order , said at the Fortune Global Forum on Tuesday. The world's rapid shift to online platforms during the pandemic is a windfall for artificial intelligence, he said. The surge in online activity is building a mountain of data that companies and researchers can...