Everything to know about China’s so-called AI university Tsinghua

China’s Tsinghua University sits in northwest Beijing and stretches across roughly 1,200 acres. On a typical afternoon, science and engineering students crowd the grounds. Badminton games run near the east gate. Inside the Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence, teams work quietly with whiteboards full of formulas and freshly painted walls while studying how the human brain processes thought. The rise of DeepSeek, an AI startup founded by alumni, gave students confidence that Chinese teams could compete directly with the world’s strongest labs. “DeepSeek showed that a Chinese team could lead in the LLM race,” said Yuyang Zhang, a PhD student in computational biology at Tsinghua. Government backing turns campus research into national priority The growing attention around Tsinghua is tied closely to Beijing’s technology (and specifically AI) agenda. President Xi Jinping, a graduate of the university, has urged private companies to help develop key technologies, with artificial intelligence at the...

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