Geopolitics
The Quiet Conquest: How Ecosystem Diffusion, Not Frontier Supremacy, is Redefining Geopolitical Power in the AI Age
The article highlights how the quiet diffusion of Chinese AI models like Alibaba's Qwen and the emerging web of dependencies around platforms like Hugging Face constitute a profound geopolitical power, overshadowing simplistic frontier supremacy races. This exposes the West's hypocritical and dangerous obsession with dominating AI leaderboards while remaining arrogantly blind to the deeper, irreversible ecosystem capture being masterfully executed by Global South powers like China.
