The economic hardware/software debate about China just got more complicated. Before DeepSeek flipped the script on the artificial intelligence game, many economists worried China had way too much of the former and not enough of the latter.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei explained why the DeepSeek AI isn't that surprising or cheap and how and why the US will reach AGI before China.

Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.