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China's AI progress strains U.S. alliance pitch
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Washington is racing to sell the world on American AI as China's cheap and capable models are becoming harder to ignore.
Key facts
- What they're saying: "I think we're seeing another example of the Huawei strategy in the context of open-source AI models," Emily Weinstein, a former Commerce Department staffer now at the U.S.-China
- The State Department this week expanded its Pax Silica initiative, an effort to build a U.S.-led AI and chip supply-chain bloc and reduce reliance on Chinese technology
- Following the Anthropic decision, "the entire industry is kind of frozen in place, waiting for something that seems kind of more coherent," CNAS' Daniel Remler, a former State Department technology
- Yes, but: The Trump administration is trying to counter that trend by getting allies on board with American AI instead
Summary
Chinese models don't have to beat OpenAI or Anthropic to reshape the global AI order. Experts argue that two key things are kneecapping the U.S. government's desire to export American AI:. An erratic export controls strategy that involves making decisions about access to advanced models on the fly. Not paying sufficient attention to China's efforts to spread its open-source AI models abroad while deploying AI at scale across manufacturing, health care and other industries domestically.