Chinese Search Company Baidu Built a Giant Artificial-Intelligence Supercomputer

The tragedy here is that the political climate of China will hamstring the usefulness of this achievement. Baidu's search results are inferior to those of Google's; it doesn't matter so much that Google's computing power is inferior. Google can actually use the results.

Whatever technical achievements that Baidu can accomplish will be wasted because they won't be able to overcome the political issues that come with being able to make use of those achievements. :(