Saudi Arabia is using US chips to build models based on Chinese AI, critics say
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-04
Miles Brundage reshares Chris McGuire's criticism that the US agreed to sell AI chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the promise they'd adopt the American AI stack — yet Saudi Arabia is now using Chinese AI models to build its own models, running on US chips. "We are getting played," the post argues.
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