AI superpower rivalry dominates Trump-Xi meeting

AI supremacy is set to be the key topic as Trump and Xi meet Thursday. The US leads on frontier models from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, while China bets on open-weight models, cheap energy and robotics, shipping over 90% of global humanoid robots.

• US leads frontier models with Anthropic, Google and OpenAI
• China releases open-weight models trailing by only months
• China is the top robot maker with over 2 million in factories
• US chip export curbs limit Chinese frontier labs