Germany may follow Italy's example by banning ChatGPT due to personal information security concerns, claimed the nation's data protection chief. Millions of people have used ChatGPT since it launched in November 2022, and it has been claimed that the artificial intelligent content generator was the fastest online application in history to reach mass adoption. \nBut what will China's version of ChatGPT look like? And what are China's big tech companies doing to catch up with Microsoft and Google in terms of the AI arms race?\n