Policymakers in Washington and Beijing are vying to take the lead in a contested race to develop and diffuse frontier technologies. As the Trump team re-enters this competition after a four-year hiatus, its Chinese counterparts are struggling to foster the kinds of zero-to-one innovations the United States has a track record of producing. To change…
On March 13, OpenAI released a proposal for the U.S. AI Action Plan. The report asserts that while the United States currently holds a leading position in the field of artificial intelligence, the success of China-based DeepSeek indicates that this advantage is not as significant as it appears and is gradually narrowing. The AI Action…
Quantum computers are beginning to move from the fringe of what was only once theoretically possible to the center of a new technological frontier of geopolitical competition. Silicon Valley has unveiled groundbreaking progress in recent months, with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google all announcing new quantum computing chips. Despite potentially accelerating years-long timelines of…
On January 20, the release of China’s newest AI model, DeepSeek R1, sent the markets and tech world into a spiral. This was primarily because its reasoning model performs on par with leading U.S. firm OpenAI’s similar o1 model, but was trained at a fraction of the cost. Influential tech investor Marc Andreessen called the…
Reports of China’s development of new large language models (LLMs) shocked the U.S. technology sector, raising questions over how the U.S. can avoid ceding ground to a strategic competitor in the critical field of artificial intelligence (AI). While much attention has been given to how many and what type of semiconductors DeepSeek and other AI…
President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the CHIPS and Science Act, describing it as providing billions of dollars to wealthy companies. He argued that a better strategy would be to impose a series of tariff to force companies to produce chips domestically. In addition, he proposed imposing a 60 percent tariff on Chinese products specifically and…