AI Wars: How Enterprise And Government Leaders Can Win The AGI Arms Race
A Call To Arms Fire Alarm
Over the weekend, OpenAI’s Sam Altman pulled a fire alarm, sending a call to arms proposal to The White House, writing: “We are at the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity [and] the Intelligence Age AI creates prosperity and freedom worth fighting for.” And more directly adding, “DeepSeek shows that our lead is not wide and is narrowing. The AI Action Plan should ensure that American-led AI prevails over CCP-led AI.”
They are specifically calling for a democratic “freedom-focused“ fight with new regulatory and copyright strategies, along with aggressive infrastructure deployment and government adoption. Good input, as long as it is an inclusive war that engages and enables the entrepreneurial spirit that brought us here and fuels the next generation emerging growth companies and startups.
Though billions have flowed into thousands of companies recently, if you look at the latest funding rounds, four big-dog companies received well over 50% of the category funding. Databricks announced an additional $10B in a J round, OpenAI $6B+, xAI $6B and Anthropic around $4B. Like the Web3 movement, which seems to have stalled at the tech oligopoly gates, we cannot afford that with AI. The privacy, security, and prosperity of your company, your family, and your country (wherever you live) may depend on it.
OpenAI went beyond nationalism to also encourage an “AI Compact” with US allied nations that can support an AI infrastructure ecosystem. President Trump has already wrangle in $1T in global private sector commitments to the U.S., including investments in critical components like data centers and power infrastructure. I expect that number to double this year. These capital-intensive data center projects should move beyond the few massive hyperscalers to also include an arsenal of hundreds of faster moving entrepreneurial organizations like Musahost, TECfusions, and others.
- Dean DeBiase (excerpt from Forbes.com)