It means you have the best toys (products, tech, services) that AI enables. And you get to sell them to the rest of the world vs. your competitors (who have to catch up).
Winning the AI race gives China or the US a commercial advantage, but only if the rest of the world allows it. That advantage can be regulated. For example, in America and Europe people don't use WeChat, and in China they don't use ChatGPT.
If you're talking about military power, where AI gives an edge in cyber security and warfare, then China has already won. They are ahead in tech, AI and quantum computing. The moment you step foot in China you realise they're easily ten years ahead. And that didn't happen overnight. It's the result of long term investment in infrastructure, education, and technology.
The arches of power are shifting, and the US can't stop it. Companies like OpenAI are built on the promise of developing a secret weapon called AGI that will rebuild the US economy, solve social problems, and give the US a technological edge to control the rest of the world.
But that's never going to happen. It's a nice story they tell politicians and regulators to get away with theft and also get investors like Microsoft to give them more infra and money.
Question: Did OpenAI made its API publicly available to generate revenue, or share responsibility and distribute the ethical risk with developers, startups, and enterprise customers, hoping that widespread use would eventually influence legal systems over time?
Let's be honest, the US government and defence sector has massive budgets for AI, and OpenAI could have taken that route, just like SpaceX did. Especially after claiming they're in a tech war with China. But they didn't, which feels contradictory and raises some red flags.
If you think about it in terms of game theory, economies that buy and use the best tools can out compete the ones that don't. As long as you have tools that are just as good, this doesn't matter, but as soon as your competitors have better tools, you have to catch up or become irrelevant. China doesn't use ChatGPT, but they have their own AI so whatever, America doesn't use WeChat, but they have WhatsApp so whatever. America doesn't use QR codes for mobile payments like China does but they have credit cards and NFC tap to pay everywhere, so again, not going to create much difference. In fact, before I moved to China in 2007, I already gave up on cash, but had to re-adopt it again while living in China, only to stop using it again when I left in 2016, and on my recent trip in April 2025, I finally could go around and not use cash (like the USA in 2007)!
Drone tech probably gives China more of an advantage of Quantum computing in military applications, which everyone is still scratching their head about and anyways...is just a better form of encryption. AI is still up in the air, China still can't economically produce their own high end GPUs, while America can't be bothered to develop infrastructure and skills for rare earths, etc...
But if America and Europe cripples themselves in AI development via rigid copyright rules, ya, its a complete win for China.
It means you have the best toys (products, tech, services) that AI enables. And you get to sell them to the rest of the world vs. your competitors (who have to catch up).
Winning the AI race gives China or the US a commercial advantage, but only if the rest of the world allows it. That advantage can be regulated. For example, in America and Europe people don't use WeChat, and in China they don't use ChatGPT.
If you're talking about military power, where AI gives an edge in cyber security and warfare, then China has already won. They are ahead in tech, AI and quantum computing. The moment you step foot in China you realise they're easily ten years ahead. And that didn't happen overnight. It's the result of long term investment in infrastructure, education, and technology.
The arches of power are shifting, and the US can't stop it. Companies like OpenAI are built on the promise of developing a secret weapon called AGI that will rebuild the US economy, solve social problems, and give the US a technological edge to control the rest of the world.
But that's never going to happen. It's a nice story they tell politicians and regulators to get away with theft and also get investors like Microsoft to give them more infra and money.
Question: Did OpenAI made its API publicly available to generate revenue, or share responsibility and distribute the ethical risk with developers, startups, and enterprise customers, hoping that widespread use would eventually influence legal systems over time?
Let's be honest, the US government and defence sector has massive budgets for AI, and OpenAI could have taken that route, just like SpaceX did. Especially after claiming they're in a tech war with China. But they didn't, which feels contradictory and raises some red flags.
If you think about it in terms of game theory, economies that buy and use the best tools can out compete the ones that don't. As long as you have tools that are just as good, this doesn't matter, but as soon as your competitors have better tools, you have to catch up or become irrelevant. China doesn't use ChatGPT, but they have their own AI so whatever, America doesn't use WeChat, but they have WhatsApp so whatever. America doesn't use QR codes for mobile payments like China does but they have credit cards and NFC tap to pay everywhere, so again, not going to create much difference. In fact, before I moved to China in 2007, I already gave up on cash, but had to re-adopt it again while living in China, only to stop using it again when I left in 2016, and on my recent trip in April 2025, I finally could go around and not use cash (like the USA in 2007)!
Drone tech probably gives China more of an advantage of Quantum computing in military applications, which everyone is still scratching their head about and anyways...is just a better form of encryption. AI is still up in the air, China still can't economically produce their own high end GPUs, while America can't be bothered to develop infrastructure and skills for rare earths, etc...
But if America and Europe cripples themselves in AI development via rigid copyright rules, ya, its a complete win for China.
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