Eric Schmidt says China is now just 6 months behind the U.S. in AI

The former Google CEO explains how China is closing the AI gap, and why he views open-source models as a growing security threat. The AI race between the U.S. and China is the defining competition of our age. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, adviser to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space, gives his most unvarnished assessment yet. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months, and takes on the open-source question that’s keeping Silicon Valley up at night. He also shares the one thing he believes could keep this from becoming a zero-sum game—even if the current political environment makes it nearly impossible.

Source: Fast Company