Chinese AI Startup Manycore Makes Global Push Amid US Tensions

China’s AI startup Manycore Tech Inc. is keen to grow its global presence, despite tensions between Washington and Beijing presenting increasing challenges for Chinese companies to build cutting-edge technologies and market them abroad.

The Hangzhou-based spatial design software supplier, a potential challenger to US-based Autodesk Inc., now has local teams in more than 10 countries including the US, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia to serve enterprise customers.

“All the countries need our product but we should pick some countries to run, to focus on,” Manycore co-founder and Chairman Victor Huang told Bloomberg TV in an interview on Wednesday. ...