China has built and launched a super-powered artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to tap directly into its national supercomputing network and conduct high-level scientific research on its own.
The scheme was launched on December 23, a month after US President Donald Trump unveiled the Genesis Mission – an “AI Manhattan Project” aimed at securing US technological dominance.
While the US plan is bound by tight timelines, requiring proof of progress within 270 days, China has already deployed its system at scale, serving more than a thousand potential institutional users nationwide.
The new AI agent can take simple natural language commands and then independently break down complex research tasks, allocate computing power, run simulations, analyse data and generate full scientific reports – with no need for constant human oversight, according to the official China Science Daily.
The system runs on China’s National Supercomputing Network (SCNet), a high-speed digital backbone linking over 30 supercomputing centres across the country.
It supports nearly 100 scientific workflows in fields such as materials science, biotechnology and industrial AI.
