Amazon may still be king of the cloud, but in recent months it's had to watch its two closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, steal the spotlight with brilliant but error-prone chatbots that use cutting-edge "generative" artificial intelligence models. Today, Amazon announced it's joining the generative AI race. Not by launching its own chatbot, but by making two new AI language models available through its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services, which customers will be able to use to build their own bots. The past few months have seen the tech industry foaming at the mouth over the potential of generative AI--algorithms that learn to produce text, code, imagery, and more. The boom has been inspired by the remarkable success of OpenAI's text-generating bot, ChatGPT, as well as the success of AI-image generators.

In early February, first Google, then Microsoft, announced major overhauls to their search engines. Both tech giants have spent big on building or buying generative AI tools, which use large language models to understand and respond to complex questions. Now they are trying to integrate them into search, hoping they'll give users a richer, more accurate experience. The Chinese search company Baidu has announced it will follow suit. But the excitement over these new tools could be concealing a dirty secret.

As everyone knows the US and China are the main rivals in the AI race. The majority of the world's largest and most well-financed AI start-ups are located in the US and China, and the pace of investment, business expansion, and adoption does not appear to be declining any time soon. The study reveals by outlining a terrible scenario in which China would surpass the US in technological advancement. In such a scenario, China gets an edge in the generative AI race and generates revenue through the invention of cutting-edge technologies that it later employs as a tool of international political influence. The potential of ChatGPT to facilitate intelligent dialogues has replaced message tools from Stable Artificial Intelligence and Open-AI as the new object of desire throughout businesses. Companies, scholars, and entrepreneurs are exploring methods to enter the generative AI in China, where the country's IT industry has historically closely followed the West's new advancements.