The US-China decoupling could force both sides to borrow from their rival.
The US has been in harvest mode for 25 years, extracting value from its institutions and capital markets while underinvesting in foundations.
China took the opposite path, suppressing wages and
Deep research spanning AI, robotics, and adjacent technologies.
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- "The US and China are making fundamentally different bets on AI. The US is betting on superintelligence. China is betting on commoditized intelligence." Read more here👇
- Are humanoids the future or just another bubble? It could be both. AI task completion is doubling every 7 months. Costs keep falling. By 2050, we're looking at tens of millions of humanoids globally, possibly hundreds of millions. Global labor is sized in the tens of
- Nous Founding Engineer discusses the structural gap in American AI. "The big part of the challenge is the incentive scheme. How do you actually finance creating a pretrained model? China has solved this to some extent where they can release these open foundation models. We have
- Who will win the AI race? The US and China are running fundamentally different races that could both be necessary in the long term. One prioritizes frontier advancement and individual freedoms while China prioritizes rapid diffusion and societal harmony. The tension between




