It is the space race of the 21st century: The competition between the United States and China to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence tools is at a critical point. Is America faltering in that race?
The "new tech cold war" between the U.S. and China is entering a "more dangerous" phase, said Marina Yue Zhang at The Diplomat . The Senate recently held a hearing focused on "concerns that the United States' lead over China was eroding fast," while President Donald Trump has been signing AI chip deals with "key regional allies" in the Middle East. Those developments signal American concern that China is "increasingly setting the pace and shaping the rules" in the new AI-dominated world. Beijing, after all, accounts "for over 70% of global AI patent filings."
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