I can't open your link, but I can give you a quick non AI summary. For it is a fascinating tale of hegemony, an unfinished civil war, communist 5 year plans, corporate welfare, a Dutch company that makes machines, video games, and robot dogs with machine guns bolted on their backs. And in my opinion, Biden and Trump come out of it near equally as bad. Almost. But Trump Trumps Biden... cos corruption. I sort of follow it, because it is a big deal where I am.
Apologies for errors I make, and if I am saying anything ppl know.
Video games use graphics chips. US company . US company NVIDIA make the best video chips. And they make them in Taiwan using machines used by Dutch company ASML. Then AI comes along, and AI folk use these graphics chips to create their AI. They use tens of thousands of these chips.
Uncle Xi sees this Ai and thinks it is great. He fully embraces it, puts it in his 5 year plan and near the whole state power is put to work. And they come out with a robot "AI" dog, with a machine gun on it's back. But that is propaganda.
Biden sees this. It worries him, because dogs are not supposed to machine guns, so he bans the sale of graphics chips to China. He also bans ASML from selling them chip making machines. China are not happy, so they set out to make their own chips, and machines.
As mentioned, NVIDIA make the chips in Taiwan. And China claims Taiwan and plan to invade. So Biden bungs NVIDIA billions to build chip plants in the US. The CHIPS act. But Taiwan are not so sure, because these chip factories are part of their security against China invading them. Cos Taiwan will just blow them all up and then nobody will get the chips. So Biden offers Taiwan enhanced defense deals.
China are not happy at all.
But the deal is done. And China come out with their own AI, called Deepseek. And they claim they done it with cheaper lower tech Chips. China ramps up AI to dominate the AI tech side.
Then Trump. And he lifts the ban on NVIDIA selling chips to China, because.... he demands a cut on money NVIDIA make from selling them to China. Always a buck to be made.
China take the chips, but at the same time they claim they do not really need them, because not only are they now making their own chips, but also the chip making machines. And China ramp up their propaganda. They put AI into everything, from tractors to warships, and robot dogs with machine guns strapped to their backs, Mk2... Mk3....
Then of course, the tech bros, who donate lots of money to Trump, cos crapyto, they tell Trump about the dangers of China having all these robot dogs with machine guns on their backs, the same tech bros who want to eliminate competition.... and so Trump declares that the US must win the AI race.
I think that is about it.
By the way.... much of the more recent propaganda footage China puts of robot dogs with machine guns strapped on their backs..... it's suspected AI generated. In any case, the guns are not full power. Cos physics. They are air rifles.
I think there is a bit of reverse space race going on. Each side trying to force the other into spending billions on it.
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