Why Does Google's Future Depend on Tensorflow? Analytics Insight

China's government has made a bold and ambitious goal of being the best in the world at AI, attempting to build an industry worth US$150 billion by the year 2030. The USA is ahead of China in the race to commercialize Artificial Intelligence, but not as far ahead, perhaps as you might think. According to a June 2017 report, which listed 2500 AI companies worldwide, The USA was home to 42% of them. China was second with 23%. Unfortunately for Google, China has some structural advances that could see them address the gap quickly, especially given the factors likely to make a material difference in the outcome of the game.