This episode is about the deeper variables behind the AI race.Why did Anthropic release one of the most powerful models and then pull it back? Why does open source AI still come with massive infrastructure costs? How are the US and China competing for top global talent? Why do Chinese internet companies fight so hard over portals, payments, and traffic? And will GEO make future brands more niche than ever?From models, chips, data, and power to visas, capital, platform wars, and the new class divide created by AI, this episode goes beyond AI headlines and looks at the structure behind US-China tech competition.#airace #USChinaTech #chinatech #GEO #FlipSidePodcast

Why can SpaceX tell a $1.7 trillion story, while Chinese AI companies focus on subsidies, scale, and mass adoption?In this episode, we unpack SpaceX’s valuation narrative, China’s AI subsidy playbook, WeChat Pay’s red-envelope attack on Alipay, the US-China divide in AI regulation, and why GEO may become the next major budget shift after SEO.This is a deeper look at how capital, policy, culture, and growth strategies differ between the US and China.

In this episode of The FlipSide Podcast we unpack US and China’s long game across oil, AI infrastructure, and global competition.From the Strait of Hormuz and strategic oil reserves to AI agents that can shop and pay for you. AI healthcare and new language models to HUAWEI chips, humanoid robots, RedNote, stablecoins and AI coding agents. The bigger question is how China turns pressure into optionality. The US attacks problems and threats directly. China often changes the weight of the problem itself. Watch the full episode now.