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               The 
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               That framing is now collapsing. The race itself has changed shape.
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               The clearest sign came in
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               when it revealed its R1 model, built nearly as capable as the best American ones at a fraction of the cost. Nvidia's stock briefly tumbled. Silicon Valley went into a quiet panic.
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               What's emerging now is something different, and in some ways more significant. A sprawling, fast-moving ecosystem 
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               American models depending on the use case, the Western AI world mostly shrugged. No stock crash or hand-wringing this time. And that’s despite the prospect of high stakes IPOs for both
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               global AI usage involved Chinese open-source models
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