China spotlight: next AI superpower?

Perhaps China's biggest advantage is the sheer quantity of its data. Tencent's WeChat platform alone has over 889 million daily active users. Chinese e-commerce purchases are almost double U.S. totals. But China's data advantage involves more than just quantity. As China witnesses an explosion of O2O (online-to-offline) startups, their data is creating a new intelligence layer unparalleled in the West.