AI Superpower Showdown: U.S. vs. China vs. Europe – Who’s Winning the Global AI Race?
AI Research & Academic Output: Publications, Patents and Breakthroughs China has emerged as the global research powerhouse in AI by volume. A 2025 analysis shows China’s AI publication output in 2024 matched the combined output of the US, UK, and EU digital-science.com. Chinese researchers not only publish the most papers, they also garner the largest share of citations (over 40% globally) – a sign that China leads in influential AI research digital-science.com. The country’s academic ecosystem for AI is vast: China boasts some 30,000 active AI researchers and hundreds of institutions conducting AI research, far dwarfing other nations digital-science.com. It
