The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance

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This article examines how AI power is concentrating in the U.S. and China and what that means for the rest of the world. It highlights the risk that frontier model access, compute, and chip supply chains could become tools of geopolitical leverage. The discussion also focuses on bias, language gaps, and representation problems in AI systems built primarily for Western users. It argues that middle powers may need coalitions, sovereign models, or hard bargaining to secure access to frontier AI. The piece ends by noting that open-source and good-enough models may help, but access remains uncertain.

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