Casado: US AI export controls failed; regulation is sole obstacle to winning
Martin Casado · What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In · Feb 6, 2025 · at 36:36
Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), critiques US AI policy and chip export controls following the release of China's DeepSeek model.
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“China is a lot of very smart people. They're incredibly capable. They're great researchers. They can build stuff as great as well as we can, and they can open source it. We did not enable them. They do this even with export controls on chips. Right? So there's basically, all of our activity has been for naught, and what we should be doing is funding and investing in our research labs, and we should be going as fast as we can, and it really is the AI race, just like we went through the space race, and we need to win. And I, we have everything that we need to win. The only thing in our way is our own regulatory.”
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