Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The writer is the author of \u2018Chip War\u2019At the start of this year, President Donald Trump declared that \u201cenhancing America\u2019s global AI dominance\u201d was a central goal of his presidency. His dealmaking around TikTok\u2019s future in the US market will be an early test of what \u201cAI dominance\u201d means in practice. That is because ByteDance \u2014 TikTok\u2019s parent company \u2014 is China\u2019s leading AI business.ByteDance\u2019s clever use of AI recommendation algorithms powers TikTok\u2019s delivery of addictive short videos and effective ads. But its expertise extends beyond this. It has also produced impressive work in other AI subfields, including high-quality large language models and models for robotics.ByteDance is as central to China\u2019s AI ecosystem as OpenAI or Meta are to America\u2019s. In AI circles, ByteDance has the cachet \u2014 and the cash \u2014 to lure senior executives away from Google. Its alumni have founded a slew of start-ups, from cross-border ecommerce to AI for biomedical research.Though start-up DeepSeek has attracted more attention this year, ByteDance is China\u2019s most successful AI business. The private company\u2019s revenue was close to Meta\u2019s in 2023 and it raked in $40bn in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (its preferred metric for profitability), up from $25bn the previous year. While most of the company\u2019s revenue comes from its China-based units, $16bn came from TikTok\u2019s sales to US users.ByteDance\u2019s profitability has enabled the company to pour money into acquiring AI chips. Last year, it purchased roughly as many Nvidia AI chips as Meta, though these were the lower-quality H20 variant, due to US export restrictions. This year, it plans to spend $5.5bn buying AI chips from Huawei and other Chinese companies, helping to fund the development of China\u2019s homegrown AI chip industry. And it is not only acquiring chips \u2014 it is also reportedly exploring other tech infrastructure, like subsea cables.As Beijing pushes for its companies\u2019 AI models to be adopted abroad, ByteDance\u2019s global footprint is a unique asset. Trump, who previously supported a ban on TikTok before reversing course after crediting the app for helping him reach young voters, now confronts a decision that will shape the AI race. He has set a deadline of April 5 to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok, otherwise the app will be banned on national security grounds.Cutting off TikTok\u2019s access to the US would not sink ByteDance, of course, given the profitability of its China-based business. But the US market is lucrative, which is why ByteDance has fought hard to stay in it.The White House has rebalanced US discussion away from the risks of AI and embraced rapid progress instead. It has prioritised data centre construction and streamlined regulation around providing the power that AI data centres require. The commerce department has tightened rules governing chip technology transfer to China. And Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First Investment Policy\u201d calls for tougher limits on investors putting money into Chinese AI.These moves fit with a strategy that aims to stay as far ahead of China on AI as possible. They have also given Washington\u2019s China hawks new ammunition against TikTok. Congress first voted to force a full divestment of TikTok over concerns that US user data could be accessed by China. TikTok has also been criticised for its surveilling of the location of journalists and for encouraging users to message members of Congress about legislation ByteDance opposed.The AI race provides an additional rationale for staying tough on TikTok. ByteDance plays a central role in funding China\u2019s AI ecosystem, acquiring AI computing capabilities and building China\u2019s global AI presence. The Trump administration has talked tough on restricting US money into adversaries\u2019 tech but TikTok puts money into China\u2019s AI ecosystem every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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