In the previous decade, China has actually constructed a solid structure to support its AI economy and made significant contributions to AI worldwide. Stanford University's AI Index, which assesses AI advancements worldwide across numerous metrics in research, advancement, and economy, ranks China among the top three countries for international AI vibrancy.1"Global AI Vibrancy Tool: Who's leading the worldwide AI race?" Artificial Intelligence Index, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University, 2021 ranking. On research, for instance, China produced about one-third of both AI journal documents and AI citations worldwide in 2021. In financial financial investment, China represented nearly one-fifth of global private investment funding in 2021, bring in $17 billion for AI start-ups.2 Daniel Zhang et al., Artificial Intelligence Index report 2022, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University, March 2022, Figure 4.2.6, "Private investment in AI by geographic area, 2013-21."
Five types of AI business in China
In China, we find that AI companies typically fall into one of five main classifications:
Hyperscalers develop end-to-end AI innovation capability and team up within the environment to serve both business-to-business and business-to-consumer business.
Traditional industry companies serve customers straight by establishing and embracing AI in internal improvement, new-product launch, and client service.
Vertical-specific AI companies establish software application and services for particular domain use cases.
AI core tech suppliers supply access to computer system vision, natural-language processing, voice acknowledgment, and artificial intelligence abilities to develop AI systems.
Hardware business offer the hardware facilities to support AI demand in calculating power and storage.
Today, AI adoption is high in China in finance, retail, and high tech, which together represent more than one-third of the country's AI market (see sidebar "5 types of AI companies in China").3 iResearch, iResearch serial marketing research on China's AI market III, December 2020. In tech, for instance, leaders Alibaba and ByteDance, both household names in China, have actually become known for their extremely tailored AI-driven consumer apps. In truth, many of the AI applications that have been commonly embraced in China to date have actually remained in consumer-facing industries, propelled by the world's biggest web consumer base and the ability to engage with customers in new ways to increase client commitment, earnings, and market appraisals.
So what's next for AI in China?
About the research study
This research is based on field interviews with more than 50 experts within McKinsey and across markets, in addition to extensive analysis of McKinsey market evaluations in Europe, the United States, Asia, and China specifically in between October and November 2021. In performing our analysis, we looked beyond business sectors, such as financing and retail, where there are already fully grown AI usage cases and clear adoption. In emerging sectors with the highest value-creation capacity, we focused on the domains where AI applications are currently in market-entry stages and could have an out of proportion effect by 2030. Applications in these sectors that either remain in the early-exploration stage or have mature industry adoption, such as manufacturing-operations optimization, were not the focus for the purpose of the research study.
In the coming decade, our research study suggests that there is remarkable opportunity for AI development in new sectors in China, including some where development and R&D spending have traditionally lagged international counterparts: automobile, transport, and logistics
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