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The US–China AI Race

How the contest between US and Chinese AI — export controls, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Huawei, SMIC — moves through the newsletters and podcasts we track, and who is driving the conversation.

10,459 posts matched · last 24 months · refreshed hourly

Matched on 10 phrases
DeepSeek Qwen Kimi K2 Kimi K3 Huawei SMIC chip export controls China AI Chinese AI Chinese models

Momentum · share of the AI conversation

Jul 2024 Jul 2026

Weekly matches as a share of all posts that week — normalized so the line reflects real momentum, not just corpus growth.

Key moments — how the story escalated

Jan 2025

DeepSeek R1 lands

A Chinese lab ships an open reasoning model matching the US frontier — the single biggest week of China-AI coverage in the period.

2025

Export controls tighten

Washington widens chip export controls; Nvidia's China-only H20 becomes the flashpoint between policy and demand.

Early 2026

The gap narrows

Qwen, Kimi and DeepSeek successors keep shipping on open weights; "open vs. closed" reframes as "US vs. China".

Mid 2026

Tit-for-tat escalates

Renewed restrictions and Chinese countermeasures push coverage to a new high.

Jul 2026

Kimi K3, the open-weights escalation

Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 arrives; the frontier open-weights race is now unmistakably geopolitical.

Hand-picked from the real story, not derived from the chart above — the dates are approximate periods, so don't expect them to line up exactly with a specific week's spike.

Who's driving it

#1 Jordi Hays Host · TBPN 226
#2 John Coogan Host · TBPN 226
#3 Alex Volkov Host · ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week 108
#4 Nathan Lambert Host · Interconnects 79
#5 Anshel Sag Writer · The 6G Podcast by Moor Insights & Strategy 70
#6 Mike Dano Writer · The 6G Podcast by Moor Insights & Strategy 70
#7 Jeffrey Ding Host · ChinAI Newsletter 70
#8 Nathaniel Whittemore Host · The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis 65
#9 Jenn Cutter Writer · Daily Tech Headlines 60
#10 Robb Dunewood Writer · Daily Tech Headlines 60
#11 Sarah Lane Writer · Daily Tech Headlines 60
#12 Julian Goldie Writer · AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast 58
#13 Jordan Schneider Host · ChinaTalk 48
#14 Josh Kale Host · Limitless: An AI Podcast 47
#15 Leo Laporte Host · TWiT Throwback (Video) 42
#16 Jason Calacanis Host · This Week in Startups 40
#17 Ejaaz Ahamadeen Host · Limitless: An AI Podcast 36
#18 Simon Willison Writer · Simon Willison's Weblog 33
#19 Louis-François Bouchard Writer · High Learning Rate 31
#20 Jeroen Erne Writer · Complete AI Training 31

Sources — by share of their own coverage

Source Posts Share of their coverage
1 TBPN their beat 240 34.9%
2 Bloomberg Tech 195 17.6%
3 [YOU] on AI · Now their beat 154 44.1%
4 Last Week in AI 147 21.5%
5 ChinaTalk volume 124 6.9%
6 Latent Space 123 24.6%
7 The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis volume 122 4.9%
8 ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week their beat 112 58%
9 Hacker Noon volume 102 3.1%
10 Interconnects their beat 95 35.8%

Share of coverage separates a beat from a mention: a show spending most of its output here (“their beat”) reads very differently from a big publisher where this is a sliver of a firehose (“volume”). Both are ranked by raw matching posts.

Data notes

Generated from live data, refreshed hourly · last updated 18 minutes ago

Peter Van Dijck

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