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How China Is Stealing America’s AI
The Free Press • • business
Key Points:
- American companies are expected to invest approximately $700 billion this year in the physical infrastructure for artificial intelligence, including data centers, chips, and computing power.
- This investment represents a bet on American capitalism, relying on advancements from these facilities to generate returns that fund future breakthroughs.
- The emergence of Chinese open-weight AI models, which are freely downloadable and customizable, is challenging this bet by introducing not only competition but also concerns over intellectual property theft.
- Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Moonshot’s Kimi K3, and Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen have rapidly gained traction in major American companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, and DoorDash, despite previously having little presence in U.S. corporate environments.
