The AI arms race is moving from models to national security infrastructure

By Tarun Wig, Co-founder and CEO, Innefu Labs Limited.

For the past few years, most of the conversation around artificial intelligence has come down to one question: whose model is bigger, faster, and smarter? Every few months there’s a new benchmark, a new billion-dollar training run, a new claim to being at the frontier. It makes for good headlines. But I think we’re watching the wrong contest.

The more consequential race is happening at a level below the models themselves. It is a race over who controls the infrastructure that keeps nations safe in an age when AI can be used to attack them just as easily as it can be used to defend them. That shift, from “who has the smartest model” to “who controls the systems protecting critical infrastructure and citizens”, is where the real strategic stakes now sit.

Consider how the nature of threats to a country...

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