Two views of the AI race: existential dread vs "we'll undercut their prices"
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-14
Quoting @mycoliza's theory that one's view of the AI race's product depends on how one views the adversary — one side fears "if they get there first, they'll destroy the world," the other thinks "we can undercut their prices." teortaxesTex adds that DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng doesn't much care about undercutting, highlighting the contrast between doom-flavored and commoditization-flavored narratives in the US-China AI race.
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