Tag Archive: Investment

China’s Tech Money Is Now Radioactive

Foreign Policy
| February 2, 2023

A report by CSET's Emily S. Weinstein and Ngor Luong, was cited in an article published by Foreign Policy. This report focuses on the American investors who are primarily involved in investing in Chinese artificial intelligence companies.

Reuters cited a report by Emily S. Weinstein and Ngor Luong from CSET. The report focuses on identifying the primary American investors involved in the Chinese artificial intelligence market and highlights the list of AI companies in China that have received investments from the United States.

CSET's Emily Weinstein and Ngor Luong presented their findings on U.S. investment in China's AI sector.

Xi Jinping’s big bang for Chinese stockmarkets

The Economist
| November 22, 2022

CSET's Ngor Luong discusses Chinese guidance funds with The Economist.

The White House supports transparency in American investment in critical sectors in China, but current export controls are not sufficient to prevent out-bound investment issues according to Research Fellow Emily Weinstein.

The rise of China’s VC-industrial complex

The Economist
| June 27, 2022

China's use of guidance funds serves to deploy massive amounts of capital in support of strategic and emerging technologies. According to a CSET report, there were more than 1,300 city and district guidance funds by 2019. One city in central China has at least ten of them.

AI and Compute

Andrew Lohn Micah Musser
| January 2022

Between 2012 and 2018, the amount of computing power used by record-breaking artificial intelligence models doubled every 3.4 months. Even with money pouring into the AI field, this trendline is unsustainable. Because of cost, hardware availability and engineering difficulties, the next decade of AI can't rely exclusively on applying more and more computing power to drive further progress.

CSET's Ngor Luong spoke the Federal News Network's "Federal Drive with Tom Temin" to discuss defense companies' investment in AI.

VentureBeat highlights CSET research into China's public investments in AI.