"while" makes the whole false.

> Do you agree that OpenAI and Anthropic are still claiming they need more data centres and more Nvidia servers to win the AI race

Yes. Red Queen[0].

> while still trying to understand what China actually did and how they did it?

No. Egg of Columbus[1]. They're well aware of what DeepSeek did. Just as DeepSeek could easily reproduce American models, the DeepSeek models are not particularly challenging works for any other AI company to follow, understand, and build upon. Here's someone else's reproduction of what they did: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

That it's so easy for these companies to keep up with each other is *the reason why* there's a Red Queen[0] race.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen's_race

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

Got it now, thanks for explaining.