The Real A.I. Race Isn’t America vs. China

By Dan Wang and Julian Gewirtz

Mr. Wang is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Mr. Gewirtz served in senior China policy roles in the Biden administration’s National Security Council and State Department.

A globally recognizable tech executive, high-spirited from preparing for a public offering, offers imprudent remarks criticizing the government. The state strikes back harder than anyone expects. Overnight, the bargain between a skyrocketing sector of the economy and the government is shattered.

If you think this story could be about Anthropic, you’re only half right. In 2020, the Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma found himself in the doghouse after he publicly rebuked Chinese regulators. Citing regulatory concerns, the authorities canceled the public offering of Ant Group, another........

© The New York Times