How Chinese artificial intelligence put a new spin on Winter Olympics action

SCMP · 2026-02-20
How Chinese artificial intelligence put a new spin on Winter Olympics action

As American figure skater Ilia Malinin launched into a quad – a jump with four airborne revolutions – at this month’s Winter Olympics, millions of television viewers witnessed something brand new: a replay of the jump separated into frames that appeared to orbit the athlete. It was just one of many