The Real AI Race With China Is Who Sets the Default
In AI policy, it’s become a reflex to say we are in a global race with China. That shorthand can obscure the true nature of the competition. China and the U.S. aren’t just competing on model performance or chips, we’re competing on the next computing systems the world adopts, and along with it, who holds economic and political power for the next generation.
In this conversation, Jai Ramaswamy, our chief legal and policy officer, sits down with Matt Cronin, senior national security advisor at a16z, to make these competitive dynamics concrete. Cronin has worked on China-related national…
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