"Model capabilities increase logarithmically with the hardware resources used to train them. In effect, this means you can make a model 90% as good as the model on the current frontier of AI performance with only 10% of the hardware. This is why limiting access to graphics processing units won’t stop America’s competition. Foreign companies and governments, even those with a fraction of the resources, will still be able to push neck-and-neck with U.S. companies. It was inevitable that a Chinese model like DeepSeek—open-source, cheaply trained—would come along to challenge American pre-eminence in AI, regardless of how tightly Washington controlled chip exports. .. While America can’t stop global AI model competition, what we can do is lead the race for AI implementation. What will determine if a nation is ahead on AI isn’t if it has the best models first, but if it is translating AI into widespread benefits for society. This means bringing the best models into organizations’ core missions and processes, from the factory floor to the operating room to the battlefield." (WSJ Opinion | America Is Winning the Wrong AI Race by Mehdi Alhassani and Anthony Bak)
America Is Winning the Wrong AI Race