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Why China’s smaller, sovereign AI may outlast America’s hyperscale dreams

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Nov 10, 2025
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Two very different philosophies are shaping the future of artificial intelligence—and the chasm is widening fast.

Recent assessments from CFR and allied strategic research centres illuminate a deepening divergence: America’s hyperscaler paradigm versus China’s sovereign localisation approach. An analysis by Vinh Nguyen, CFR’s senior fellow for artificial…

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