Eric Schmidt just said in public what US AI policy has been built around in private for three years (Save this).
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-06-21
Eric Schmidt publicly confirmed that the US controls approximately 75% of global AI compute versus China's 15%, a figure that has reportedly been the private foundation of US export control policy for three years.
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- The United States controls approximately 75% of global AI compute.
- China controls approximately 15% of global AI compute.
- This compute gap is the product of three years of coordinated US export controls.
- Schmidt's public statement reveals strategic logic that has been shaping US AI policy privately for years.
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Eric Schmidt just said in public what US AI policy has been built around in private for three years.
The United States currently controls approximately 75% of global AI compute while China controls 15%.
That gap is the product of three years of coordinated export