{"id":135597,"date":"2025-11-12T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:42:22","slug":"googles-former-ceo-eric-schmidt-warns-american-companies-of-ai-problem-with-chinese-models-which-he-says-is-one-of-his-biggest-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135597\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s former CEO Eric Schmidt warns American companies of &#8216;AI problem&#8217; with Chinese models, which he says is one of his &#8216;biggest fears&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt.jpg\" alt=\"Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt warns American companies of 'AI problem' with Chinese models, which he says is one of his 'biggest fears'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Google\u2019s former CEO Eric Schmidt has warned that Chinese open-source AI models could dominate globally, creating what he calls one of his \u201cbiggest fears\u201d for the future of artificial intelligence. Speaking on the Moonshots podcast released this week, Schmidt said he worries that most countries might end up using Chinese AI models simply because they are free, while U.S. models remain closed and costly.\u201cThis produces a bizarre outcome where the biggest models in the United States are closed source and the biggest models in China are open-source,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cThe geopolitical issue there, of course, is that open source is free and the closed source models are not free.\u201dAccording to Schmidt, this economic gap could have major global implications. \u201cSo the vast majority of governments and countries who don&#8217;t have the kind of money that the West does will end up standardizing on Chinese models not because they&#8217;re better, but because they&#8217;re free,\u201d he added.Open-source AI models allow anyone to access, modify, and share the technology, while closed-source systems are proprietary and often more secure but less accessible. The rise of Chinese AI systems like DeepSeek and Alibaba\u2019s Qwen3 this year has already raised concerns around data privacy, national security, and America\u2019s competitive edge in AI.Schmidt said the open vs. closed-source divide could become a geopolitical fault line in the global AI race.<\/p>\n<p>Debate over Sovereign AI escalates<\/p>\n<p>The growing debate over \u201csovereign AI\u201d \u2014 a country\u2019s control over its AI technologies, data, and infrastructure \u2014 has intensified, with tech leaders like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch urging nations to develop independent systems.Earlier this year, Huang told officials at the World Governments Summit in Dubai that countries must build their own large language models to preserve cultural and technological independence. Mensch compared AI to electricity in the early 1900s, warning that nations that fail to establish their own AI systems could become dependent on others \u2014 a scenario Schmidt now fears may soon be shaped by China\u2019s growing open-source advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s former CEO Eric Schmidt has warned that Chinese open-source AI models could dominate globally, creating what he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,78669,78671,4067,35808,61,60,44102,78670,80],"class_list":["post-135597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chinese-ai-models","tag-closed-source-ai","tag-deepseek","tag-eric-schmidt","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nvidia-ceo","tag-open-source-ai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}