China's AI push has scale. But substance?

WHEN IT COMES to the sheer number of generative artificial intelligence users in China, the question shouldn't be how many there are, but how they're using it.

- CATHERINE THORBECKE

A new report from the China Internet Network Information Center indicates the nation had some 515 million users as of June, up by 266 million since December, according to a readout from Xinhua.At a first glance, the figure suggests that Beijing's push to spread the technology throughout industries to boost productivity-the so-called AI Plus initiative is bearing fruit.