American tech leadership is in DeepShit

Just three days ago I watched the billionaire president and three of his billionaire sidekicks razzle-dazzle the rubes with the announcement of “Stargate,” an ambitious plan to invest $500 billions into artificial intelligence, securing US tech leadership well into the future. This was perhaps the capstone of Trumps grand strategy to make America great again. The triumphalism on display was contagious! Yes, it’s morning in America again, and with wokery in retreat, our billionaires are dreaming bigger than ever! The stars and stripes will be planted on Mars in no time! The entire universe will be in awe! I had never heard of DeepSeek, and unless you’re a hard-core tech nerd, you probably hadn’t either. Three days later, DeepSeek is all over the internet. On the same day Don and Larry were promising individualized AI-engineered cancer vaccines, a little start-up in China unveiled an AI platform that outperforms the latest offerings from Open AI. At roughly 3% of the cost! And that’s after ten years of US using every trick in the book, from sanctions to arresting Chinese tech executives, to hobble China’s tech sector. China has pulled ahead in spite of our best efforts. That’s what happens when you have too many scientists searching for new genders and not enough doing science.