We're obsessed with the differences between U.S. and Chinese AI. America commands capital; China manufacturing. America pushes the frontier; China on scales and diffuses. Headlines read like the play-by-play of a manic sports commentator: China is years behind, months behind, pulling ahead, winning, losing, racing towards AGI, racing on a different track. But moving between the two countries, I’ve been struck by how they have come to mirror and resemble each other. A shared sense of precarity lies beneath the envy and distrust - the technological future is taking shape at vertiginous speed yet its promise is not shared by all. For @nytimes, I wrote about how the U.S. and China are hurtling towards a shared A.I future.