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Depends a bit on the country. In the United States, for sure. That's just open corruption and you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. The government funnels $500bn taxpayer money into some Project Stargate, and God knows how much into really dark stuff with Palantir. Musk even "worked" for the government for a while... And next to the corruption money, these people are buddies. And they're all working towards the same goal. Some idea of an apocalypse.
In China, I don't think they need to bribe the government. It was the CCP who came up with the idea in the first place. And the AI race between China and the USA is yet another thing.
For Europe, I'm not so sure. There's a bit more nuance here? I mean Ursula von der Leyen is an AI shill as well. She frequently likes to talk about it. I don't think there's as much open bribery, though. And I still hope they're aware of the situation with US companies, how we diverge in our goals, and partnering with Palantir or X is likely going to end us up in a lot of pain... And the EU loves to regulate. And our own AI companies aren't as big. So there's that as well.
China is an interesting inversion of the US. In the US, the government is invested in the AI race because they've been bribed and because the money line go up. In China, the government was invested in the AI race before the bubble started to inflate and is instead pushing its own companies to invest in AI. Basically: in the US markets are in command, in China politics are in command.
It'll be really interesting to see how the two countries respond to the bubble bursting.
As for Europe, there's been some murmurings about tech sovereignty which are really exciting to me. They need to get out of US tech, whether that means they put a lot more focus on building European AI firms or they just get out of AI entirely.