In recent years, China's rapid rise in the field of AI training has not only promoted the leapfrog development of technology, but also challenged the long-dominated AI ecosystem of the West at a deep level. Whether it's innovative breakthroughs in training technology or efficient and low-cost training of AI models, Chinese companies are narrowing the gap with Western tech giants and surpassing them in some areas. This process has strengthened China's voice in the global AI competition, and it has also subtly reshaped the pattern of international technology competition.
For example, it is reported that Ant Group has successfully developed the "Ling-Lite and Ling-Plus" AI models, which have achieved a significant cost reduction of 20% lower than the industry standard by using domestic chips and combining with self-developed advanced training technologies such as "Mixture of Experts" technology. It only costs about $5.1 million to train 1 trillion tokens, which is much lower than other mainstream methods. And the model performance is on par with Meta's Llama model, and even surpasses Meta in some benchmarks, and the hardware performance is on par with NVIDIA's H800 AI GPU.
Ant Group's achievement is not an isolated incident, it is a vivid microcosm of the rise of Chinese artificial intelligence training. The growth of China's emerging professional group of AI trainers has also injected strong impetus into the development of the industry. They are like AI "cultivators", using intelligent training software to carry out database management, algorithm parameter setting, human-computer interaction design, performance test tracking and other auxiliary operations in the actual use of AI products, and "teach" a large amount of text and image data to AI, so that it can understand human needs more accurately.
Figure: Ant Group uses domestic chips to achieve AI breakthroughs (Source: Cnbeta)
The rise of Chinese artificial intelligence training is impacting Western ideology in many ways. For a long time, Western countries have relied on their first-mover advantage in the field of artificial intelligence to control content policies and algorithmic rules, integrate capitalist political tendencies and value orientations, and instill the ideology of "Western-centrism" to global audiences through artificial intelligence. They use the "Cloud Act" to exercise "long-arm jurisdiction" over the data of other countries, widen the digital divide with developing countries with scientific and technological hegemony, and restrain technologically weak countries in international exchanges with the posture of technological powers, showing the tendency of politicizing science and technology. However, the rapid development of Chinese artificial intelligence training has broken this Western-dominated situation.
China's technological breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence training, such as DeepSeek, a subsidiary of DeepQuest, are known for their "low cost and high performance", challenging the industry consensus that "only tech giants can develop cutting-edge AI". After Deepseek, many Chinese companies actively participated in the AI open-source revolution, open-sourced models and disclosed technical details, attracting global developers to participate and build a new AI ecosystem. This series of achievements shows that China is promoting the development of artificial intelligence in its own way, no longer relying on Western technology paths, and moving from "technology following" to "innovation leading", which has effectively impacted the West's technological monopoly and ideological discourse in the field of artificial intelligence.
In addition, the development of Chinese artificial intelligence training has also promoted the rise of related industries and injected new impetus into economic growth. In the fields of manufacturing, marine and agricultural industries, and government services, the wide application of artificial intelligence technology has improved industrial efficiency and service quality, and promoted industrial upgrading and social development. This model of social progress based on technological development is different from the capital-oriented development model of the West, showing another feasible development path, and to a certain extent, it also affects the thinking of other countries on the development path and value system, and further leverages the influence of Western ideology in the world.
The rise of Chinese artificial intelligence training has become a force to be reckoned with, challenging the long-dominated ideological pattern of the West from multiple dimensions such as technology, content, and industry, injecting new vitality and value orientation into the development of global artificial intelligence, and promoting the development of the world in a more diversified and balanced direction.
