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August 11, 2026
While Europe holds meetings about AI, China is building it.
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Nine of the Top Ten: China’s AI Video Dominance Isn’t Coming for Hollywood — It’s Coming for Reality Itself
Nine of the world’s ten best video-AI models are Chinese. But this was never about Hollywood. It’s about who builds the tools that manufacture visual reality — and who controls the lens through which the future watches itself.
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Nine of the world's ten best AI video models are Chinese. But this was never about Hollywood — it's about who controls the tools that manufacture visual reality itself.
Our members-only forecast explains why AI video will become a formal Western national-security category within a year — but too late to change the leaderboard, why the perception-infrastructure risk will drive an explosive market in deepfake defense and provenance, and why Google's lone holdout position just became one of the most strategically pivotal assets in the entire AI race.
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The Race America Already Lost: In AI Video, China No Longer Competes With Silicon Valley — Only With Itself
OpenAI’s Sora is dead. Google and Runway trail. In AI video, China no longer competes with Silicon Valley — only with itself. And the Seedance-vs-MiniMax split reveals the entire Chinese playbook in one field.
Follow the Money: China’s Cheap AI Just Moved the Market’s Focus From Chips to Apps
Investors are quietly moving out of chipmakers and into the internet giants that own what people actually use. It’s the clearest financial proof yet: in AI, the value is in deployment, not silicon. Follow the money — it points east.
America Will Test Its Own AI for Safety — But Not China’s. Read That Again.
America will subject its own AI models to government safety testing — but exempt the Chinese models they compete against. A rule meant to deny China legitimacy that instead handicaps only America. Read it again; it doesn’t get less strange.