By ZH sailing
China is piloting initiatives to make artificial intelligence more accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a move that could reshape the country’s tech landscape and boost innovation among startups and smaller firms.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced a nationwide push to establish a flexible, affordable, and high-quality computing service system for SMEs. Authorities aim to tackle one of AI adoption’s biggest bottlenecks: access to computing resources.
Central to this effort are “computing power banks” and “computing power supermarkets”:
- Computing power banks allow companies to deposit unused computing capacity and retrieve it later, turning idle resources into a tradable asset.
- Computing power supermarkets operate as marketplaces, offering on-demand access to pooled computing resources.
By 2028, the plan seeks to provide broad industry coverage, lower costs, and simplify computing deployment for SMEs, helping them scale and move up the value chain.
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