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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.

19,876 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

Sep 2024 Sep 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 John Coogan Host · TBPN 248
#2 Jordi Hays Host · TBPN 240
#3 Nathan Lambert Host · Interconnects 199
#4 Ed Ludlow Host · Bloomberg Tech 191
#5 Zvi Mowshowitz Writer · Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi) 159
#6 Caroline Hyde Host · Bloomberg Tech 159
#7 Grace Shao Host · AI Proem 134
#8 Jeffrey Ding Host · ChinAI Newsletter 132
#9 Alexander Kruel Writer · Axis of Ordinary 125
#10 Alex Volkov Host · ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week 118
#11 Sense Hofstede Writer · Chinese Wouden 森中台 111
#12 Benjamin Marie Writer · The Kaitchup – AI on a Budget 108
#13 Louis-François Bouchard Host · Making AI Accessible with Louis-François 104
#14 Dylan Patel Writer · SemiAnalysis 100
#15 Louie Peters Writer · Towards AI Newsletter 99
#16 Nathaniel Whittemore Host · The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis 82
#17 Shakeel Hashim Writer · Transformer 79
#18 Michael Spencer Host · AI Supremacy 77
#19 Yavuz Selim Şen Writer · Chief Asia Officer 76
#20 Leo Laporte Host · All TWiT.tv Shows (Audio) 75

Sources — by share of their own coverage

Source Posts Share of their coverage
1 TBPN their beat 240 35.8%
2 Bloomberg Tech 213 18.6%
3 [YOU] on AI · Now their beat 212 38.8%
4 Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi) their beat 183 34.4%
5 Latent Space their beat 157 31.6%
6 AI Proem their beat 138 77.5%
7 Chinese Wouden 森中台 their beat 126 60.9%
8 Axis of Ordinary their beat 125 72.3%
9 Hacker Noon volume 122 3.3%
10 Venture Daily Digest their beat 122 32.6%

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 20 hours ago

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