> Further, I will continue to maintain that Chinese AI is much better and is actually driving development now, rather than the reverse. Qwen and Deepseek/Huawei (Qwen also integrating Huawei) are the defining AI models already, and the question now is the effectiveness with which US companies will be able to rip them off, particularly with relation to efficiency.

That's an extraordinary claim. The benchmarks seem pretty unbiased, and they seem to favor the American models.

As other commenters have mentioned, jeets are slowing America down with their incompetence, but the teams working on the important bits are almost all White or East Asian.