Who Really Wins the AI Race?

The real AI race is not being decided by chatbots alone. It is being fought through chips, energy, robotics, factories, materials, and control of the technologies operating at the smallest scales. This book examines the physical infrastructure beneath artificial intelligence and the geopolitical contest surrounding it: advanced semiconductors, nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes, photonic and neuromorphic computing, gallium-oxide power electronics, robotics, and energy infrastructure. It covers semiconductor chokepoints, the strengths and vulnerabilities of the United States, China, Europe, the Gulf states, Southeast Asia, and India, why energy may become AI's defining constraint, and why the competition is really seven interconnected races, not one.