China's new AI science network to challenge Trump’s Genesis Mission

China has launched a powerful new artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting advanced scientific research by directly accessing the country’s national supercomputing infrastructure. Officially unveiled on December 23, this AI platform operates at a national scale and is available to over a thousand institutional users across China. Unlike traditional research tools, it can independently plan and execute complex scientific workflows—breaking down tasks, allocating computing resources, running simulations, analyzing data, and generating reports with minimal human intervention. This dramatically accelerates research processes, reducing tasks that once took a full day to about an hour, and currently supports nearly 100 workflows in fields such as materials science, biotechnology, and industrial AI. At the core of this initiative is China’s National Supercomputing Network (SCNet), a high-speed digital backbone linking over 30 supercomputing centers nationwide. Launched in 2023 and rapidly expanded since, SCNet integrates supercomputing and intelligent computing resources to enable large-scale AI deployment for scientific research. Chinese officials