Gerstner argues AI has become the leading edge of sovereign battles over trade and national security.
“AI, over the course of the last twelve months, has gone from an interesting technology to literally the leading edge of where we're battling with global sovereigns over trade, national security, national economic interest.”
Gerstner says Chinese AI stack including DeepSeek and other models is making disturbing inroads in Middle East and Southern Hemisphere.
“No. For sure. And in fact, I I hear disturbing things all the time about the Chinese stack making great inroads in The Middle East and in the Southern Hemisphere, etcetera, because, frankly, they're working really quickly to put their chips and their models, their open source models, Deepsea, Kimi k two, Quinn, etcetera, and exporting those to the world.”