Policymakers in Washington and Beijing are vying to take the lead in a contested race to develop and diffuse frontier technologies. As the Trump team re-enters this competition after a four-year hiatus, its Chinese counterparts are struggling to foster the kinds of zero-to-one innovations the United States has a trackContinue Reading
On March 13, OpenAI released a proposal for the U.S. AI Action Plan. The report asserts that while the United States currently holds a leading position in the field of artificial intelligence, the success of China-based DeepSeek indicates that this advantage is not as significant as it appears and isContinue Reading
Quantum computers are beginning to move from the fringe of what was only once theoretically possible to the center of a new technological frontier of geopolitical competition. Silicon Valley has unveiled groundbreaking progress in recent months, with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google all announcing new quantum computing chips. DespiteContinue Reading
Chinese tech pioneer DeepSeek is disrupting global AI markets with open-source models priced 7 percent below Western counterparts, showcasing China’s ascent through cost-innovation synergies. U.S. President Donald Trump warned that the rise of DeepSeek “should be a wake-up call for America’s tech companies.” The rise of DeepSeek might intensify theContinue Reading
On January 20, the release of China’s newest AI model, DeepSeek R1, sent the markets and tech world into a spiral. This was primarily because its reasoning model performs on par with leading U.S. firm OpenAI’s similar o1 model, but was trained at a fraction of the cost. Influential techContinue Reading
Reports of China’s development of new large language models (LLMs) shocked the U.S. technology sector, raising questions over how the U.S. can avoid ceding ground to a strategic competitor in the critical field of artificial intelligence (AI). While much attention has been given to how many and what type ofContinue Reading
In December 2024, the Hangzhou-based AI company DeepSeek released its V3 model, igniting a firestorm of debate. The result has been dubbed “China’s AI Shock.” DeepSeek-V3’s comparable performance to its U.S. counterparts such as GPT-4 and Claude 3 at lower costs casts doubt on the U.S. dominance over AI capabilities,Continue Reading
There’s a common saying in tech circles: The United States is good at innovation, going from zero to one, while China is good at commercial applications, that is, going from one to 100. For a while it seemed like the same would hold true for artificial intelligence (AI), where theContinue Reading
