A big Chinese telecom company, China Telecom, recently announced that it has created two new artificial intelligence (AI) models using chips made entirely in China. This is a significant step in China’s mission to become self-sufficient in technology, especially as the United States tightens its rules on selling advanced chips to China.

What Are These New AI Models?

The models, named TeleChat2-115B and another unnamed model, have been trained using tens of thousands of chips made in C...