Artificial intelligence industry in China

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Abdul El-Sayed is full pause AI senator-elect calling for an international treaty, including going full skier on a boat metaphor for Chinese distillation.

There's an image here.

Meme.

Hammond said within hours of publication, Nvidia's government affairs team requested a meeting with him, where they denied the existence of chip smuggling.

According to Hammond, they even demanded he produce the serial number of a smuggled chip to demonstrate that smuggling was a real phenomenon.

Hammond crossed Nvidia again in August 2025 when he posted a message on X in response to an article about the Chinese military seeking Nvidia chips for a variety of AI projects, Nvidia is arming China's military.

Soon after, Hammond said NVIDIA emailed his boss, saying the Foundation for American Innovation wasn't living up to its pro-innovation values and offering to have their general councils meet.

I mean, obviously there's the US labs and you're here in the US.

Do the other labs have significant partnerships? What are they like? Mistral, Cohere, the Chinese labs? I don't know if...

Not so much.

Well, they might

A US versus China AI Cold War is starting, and most business leaders have no idea they may already be participants, and it's moving much faster than hardly anyone can keep up with.

About two weeks ago, Reuters reported that China is considering locking down its most advanced AI models, keeping its best from the rest of the world.

Then, just yesterday, the Trump administration is signaling it may restrict Chinese AI models inside the United States.

Now they seek the minimum change that lets them rationalize proceeding to themselves and their staff.

When Elon Musk is talking about using humanity as a bootloader for superintelligence, Demis Hassabis has been pushed aside at DeepMind, and then the other option is Mark Zuckerberg or perhaps various Chinese companies that don't have any kind of understanding of the dangers ahead, it's not a crazy argument to say that the alternatives waiting in the wings are a lot worse.

You still don't do the thing that probably kills everyone.

There is an alternative option.

Things are not better elsewhere.

If anything, things elsewhere are even worse.

You don't want a live look inside of xAI's or Meta's safety efforts and culture or what you would see from a Chinese lab.

It is all broken.