Sure let me explain, when it comes to American AI lagging behind Chinese AI, there are two types of "lag", one is visible lag and the other invisible lag, the coding capability of American AI models against Chinese AI models will fall under visible lag category where American AI models are clearly dominating the Chinese but we need to look at the invisible lag variables like the ability of China to produce decently intelligent AI models at a lot less cost compared to American companies and then also give those models out for free in open source which makes the cost of serving those models super affordable both for companies around the world and the consumers who want to use those models.

For example let's say I'm a business that is trying to setup a AI employee to answer all my small business customer queries to my support email, there's not much difference in quality of answering emails between American and Chinese AI models and on top of that Chinese ones are super affordable and I will mostly end up choosing based on affordability since I'm a business and margins matter and also because I'm experimenting, and if it works guess what the Chinese models just got a lifetime customer which means I will be a lost customer for American AI companies.

The invisible lag will always be visible before the truely visible lag between American AI and Chinese AI models start to appear, and if people look close enough at the actual details of how this AI race will play out...

...My friend it won't be much different than what China did to American companies in the markets of solar panels and Electric vehicles... Sadly...