SHANGHAI – Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has thrown down the gauntlet on artificial intelligence (AI), declaring on Wednesday that the telecommunications giant will go big on the emerging field by “building a solid computing base for China – and a second option for the world”. Fresh from a breakthrough in its smartphone business, Huawei announced an upgraded supercomputer designed to crunch large amounts of data – pitting it against American market leader Nvidia, which has made record profits after the recent boom in generative AI applications such as ChatGPT. Computing power is a key driver in the development of…