The US is losing its lead in AI

I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're talking about the AI race ongoing between the US and China. For really the last several years, it's been pretty apparent that most of the best models and most of the most ambitious, most impressive AI has been coming out of Silicon Valley.

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1. 01Hello and welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of the Model Wars
2. 02For really the last several years, it's been pretty apparent that most of the best models and most of the most ambitious, most impressive AI has been coming out of Silicon Valley
3. 03We had a big moment a year and a half ago where DeepSeek all of a sudden showed up with a vastly more efficient, vastly cheaper model that was almost as good as some of the frontie