Kenyan expert: China is revolutionizing the AI sector

Artificial intelligence is one of the promising areas of cooperation between China and Africa. Speaking ahead of the Two Sessions, the annual meetings of China's National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Lawrence Nderu, a research fellow in the Department of Computing at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, said China is revolutionizing the AI sector.

He said through the development of DeepSeek, China has proven that it's possible to develop interesting AI solutions with less computing capabilities as long as the developer is efficient at the algorithm level.

This, he said, has particularly given confidence to the Global South which lacks computing capability, to help leapfrog the region's ability and benefit from AI and create meaningful solutions.