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Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race
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Key facts
- OpenAI’s policy head for advanced AI, former Donald Trump adviser Dean Ball, wrote that Beijing’s open-weight approach to AI would lead to “full AI communism” with government-run datacenters powering
- Hello, the reporter is Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final
- Google is months behind in its launch schedule for the new version of its flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5
- As Google’s internal struggles became public, the Chinese startup Moonshot debuted an unexpectedly strong model, sending shivers through Silicon Valley and Washington DC alike
Summary
Google is struggling with the latest version of its Gemini model A Chinese company, Moonshot, put out a free, surprisingly capable model last week China’s new models yet again thrown the US dominance in AI into question. Google is months behind in its launch schedule for the new version of its flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5. A refreshed and newly capable Gemini might also have ameliorated the damage to the US’s reputation as the leader in AI this week, but didn’t. As Google’s internal struggles became public, the Chinese startup Moonshot debuted an unexpectedly strong model, sending shivers through Silicon Valley and Washington DC alike.