《From Beijing to Silicon Valley: The Three Core Forces of Chinese Influence on AI》 1. Leading figures in Chinese domestic enterprises deepseek/qwen/kimi/minimax/gml/seedance and others are challenging U.S.-dominated LLM companies. According to openrouter data, minimax and kimi took the top two spots this month, while deepseek v4, which doesn’t rely on NVIDIA’s architecture, has shaken the industry. 2. Chinese researchers in Silicon Valley’s LLM star companies Based on grok data, Chinese talent accounts for about 38% in top U.S. AI research institutions, surpassing the proportion of native Americans. 3. Global AI decision-makers Leading figures include NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, and AI vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li. This U.S.-China AI competition has just begun, and it feels like China is catching up fast. Seeing how openclaw crayfish is so popular in China, it seems like Americans don’t share the same enthusiasm