Eric Schmidt just identified how America loses the AI war despite building better technology, and most people haven’t noticed it’s already happening. Schmidt: “The U.S. is chasing AGI.” America is fixated on one prize. Artificial General Intelligence. The god model. The moonshot that changes everything. Pouring resources into the ultimate breakthrough. China isn’t playing that game at all. Schmidt: “China is shipping day-to-day AI apps, and robotics.” Not waiting for superintelligence. Deploying current AI everywhere right now. Factory floors. Consumer devices. Supply chains. Physical robots at industrial scale. Today, not eventually. America might win the race to AGI and still lose the world. Schmidt: “If Chinese open-source models get good enough…” The strategic blindness is structural. US models are closed, proprietary, expensive. Chinese models like DeepSeek are open and free. Where does the developing world build its digital future? On technology it can access and afford. Which means Chinese. Schmidt: “Much of the world could end up building on them.” America competes for smartest AI. China competes for most embedded AI. And embedded wins. Technical superiority is worthless when the global standard already runs on your competitor’s freely available stack. Schmidt: “We better also be competing with the Chinese in day-to-day stuff.” The US places all chips on the ten-year AGI bet while handing China the entire commercial present. China deploys relentlessly. Robots, apps, infrastructure, all shipping now while America perfects research. ...