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Eric Schmidt scores US vs. China: who’s winning the AI race?

Masters of Scale

Published
October 27, 2026
Duration
26:34
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Oct 27, 2026

Discusses ai.

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The AI race between the US and China is the defining competition of our age. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, advisor to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space joins Rapid Response live from Masters of Scale Summit to give his most unvarnished assessment yet. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months. …

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The AI race between the US and China is the defining competition of our age. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, advisor to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space joins Rapid Response live from Masters of Scale Summit to give his most unvarnished assessment yet. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months. Schmidt also takes on the open source question that’s keeping Silicon Valley up at night, explains why kicking China’s best PhD students out of

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  • ai
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