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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

Cars That Think

Six years later, he established Microsoft Research Asia , the company’s largest basic and applied computer-research institute outside the United States. In 2012, Zhang Yiming , a Microsoft Research Asia alum , founded the video-sharing platform’s parent company, ByteDance , which today is one of the world’s most successful AI companies.

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