Thread by @wmhuo168

America’s AI is trapped in the cloud because its billionaires are trapped in their ideology. In China, AI is public infrastructure. In the U.S., it’s a gated asset class. This is the story of two futures.

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Ken Griffin is just a symptom. The real disease is America's blind faith in private capital as the only force that deserves to shape the future. The result? An AI ecosystem built to serve billionaires, not society. (1/12)

In the U.S., AI is a gated community. It lives in hyperscale data centers, walled off behind APIs and paywalls. It’s not built to serve the public—it’s built to juice returns, pad exits, and protect monopolies. (2/12)

Meanwhile in China, AI is being poured into the pavement—into EVs, hospitals, factories, and smart cities. The question there isn't "how fast can we IPO?" but "how fast can we integrate?" (3/12)

America’s AI innovation, ironically, still feeds off public money—NIH, DARPA, NSF. But the benefits are captured entirely by private equity, VCs, and the same five firms that hoard all compute and talent. (4/12)

Try pitching a free, open-source LLM for rural education or local governance in the U.S. You’ll get laughed out of the room unless it promises a billion-dollar exit. That’s not innovation. That’s capital worship. (5/12)

In China, state direction shapes private capital. AI is treated like infrastructure: long-term, high-impact, and embedded in national goals. The benefits flow outward, not just upward. (6/12)

America’s billionaires don’t fear Chinese AI because it’s more “advanced.” They fear it because it’s useful—because it dares to treat AI as a public good, not just a luxury toy for hedge funds and cloud lords. (7/12)

Ken Griffin doesn’t understand open source because his entire worldview depends on owning the upside. Free software? Community-trained models? That’s heresy to a class trained to extract, not contribute. (8/12)

This is why U.S. AI is stuck in server farms while China puts it on every street corner, into every EV, every assembly line, every school and doctor’s office. Deployment beats demo. (9/12)

If the West wants to win the AI race, it has to lose its religion—the one that says private capital is infallible and public interest is socialism. Until then, the future will be built elsewhere. (10/12)

This isn't about communism vs capitalism. It’s about who benefits. China builds AI to serve 1.4 billion people. America builds AI to serve 400 families. That’s the real gap. (11/12)

AI for the people or AI for the portfolios? The answer will define the 21st century. America better choose fast. (12/12)