No wonder the US Treasury Secretary hurried back home. A major bad news came from the United States, and a key card of the US became invalid! Just as the US Treasury Secretary returned home without warning, the AI (Artificial Intelligence) affairs director of the White House, Sachs, suddenly released a big message. Sachs admitted that China was only three to six months behind in AI models. If the government excessively regulated the AI industry, it might lose its market dominance and hand over the market to China.

The US side later clarified that Sachs was referring to China's AI models, adding that China lags behind the US by one to two years in terms of AI chip performance. In fact, before the Sino-US talks, the US took consecutive actions on chip control. On one hand, the US targeted Huawei's artificial intelligence chips; on the other hand, the US imposed even stricter control measures on high-end chips and chip design software.

The purpose of the US doing so is to curb our development of artificial intelligence, establish American AI hegemony, and create a key bargaining chip for negotiations. However, no matter how many measures the US takes, it still finds that China's AI industry is developing abnormally rapidly. Now the US faces a dilemma: if it continues to impose strict control measures, its own AI development will slow down due to these restrictions; but if it doesn't impose any controls, China's development will be faster.

Many experts within the US have stated that the US control measures cannot stop China's development. The wise move for the US would be to loosen these regulations. This not only can expand the share of the US chip industry but also avoid a comprehensive decoupling in the Sino-US AI field. Because if there is a full decoupling, allowing China to develop an entire independent chip-AI system, the US will suffer greater losses. We do not know the reason why Bethsent returned home, but reporting to the White House and pushing for a shift in the US chip policy has likely become a high-probability event for the US.

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