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Within days, Donald Trump is due to host Xi Jinping at the White House, with artificial intelligence on the confirmed agenda, per Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bloomberg's newsletter frames the meeting as an AI face-off, noting the two countries do not even agree on AI's biggest threats.
Why it mattersThe disagreement has an engineering shape. Tech Policy Press charts China's different race: cheap, open-weight, diplomatically exportable models. Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 runs at about $1.71 per million tokens against roughly $11.25 for GPT-5.5, and DeepSeek's models cost under one percent of comparable US systems. The summit's AI chapter is less a pacing argument than a translation problem: one side sells adoption, the other the frontier. Qwen is already the most adopted open-weight family. Hard to coordinate on threats you cannot agree to name.
Discuss: When one side races on cheap open-weight adoption and the other on frontier capability, can the US and China coordinate on AI threats they cannot even agree to name?
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