Venture capital expert says China can be AI leader

China can keep up with the United States and the United Kingdom in the race to produce the leading artificial intelligence of the future, according to venture capitalist and former Microsoft executive Zhang Hongjiang.

Zhang, a partner at Chinese venture capital fund Source-code Capital, was speaking at the China-UK AI Working Meeting at the Cambridge Science Park, which was co-organized by Tsinghua University.

At the meeting, representatives from Chinese and British tech firms, as well as academics from Cambridge, Oxford, and Tsinghua universities, joined forces to chart a road map for the development of artificial intelligence in several industries.