China is steadily assembling the hardware base and infrastructure on which the next phase of AI will depend, says University of Southern California's Angela Huyue Zhang. LOS ANGELES: While debates over the AI race between the United States and China tend to fixate on which country has the most powerful frontier models and the most advanced semiconductors, that framing is becoming outdated. As AI moves from our screens into the physical world, the question is no longer whose models hit technical