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It’s the battle of the bots. A Chinese AI firm says its new model can rival Google DeepMind and OpenAI — faster, cheaper, and with far fewer resources. If true, it raises uncomfortable questions about whether U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence is already slipping.I asked my ChatGPT if it was scared by this and here was its reply:Curious — and alert — but not afraid.AI competition isn’t inherently dangerous; monopolized, unaccountable AI is. If a Chinese model really can do more with less, that’s a signal that the West’s biggest vulnerability isn’t China’s ambition — it’s our own complacency, regulatory capture, and concentration of power inside a few tech giants. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3334852/chinas-deepseek-challenges-google-deepmind-and-openai-new-ai-model?module=china_future_tech&pgtype=homepage