Chips or poultry? Artificial intelligence or raspberry exports? What will determine the future of the Polish economy?

 

"In the global technological race, artificial intelligence is becoming a new weapon. China and the US are competing for dominance, and Poland is at a crossroads: develop modern technologies or remain the leader in agricultural exports? Does the US decision to limit our access to chips condemn us to the second league?

 

If a global conflict is already underway, we are witnessing successive salvos fired by the parties that are clashing in the struggle for world domination. But these are not cannon shots, these are not tests of new ballistic missiles or laser weapons.

 

What is the breakthrough with DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen?

 

These salvos are information about subsequent models of artificial intelligence being put into use. When the West had not yet recovered from the shock of the debut of the Chinese DeepSeek, which was supposed to perform better than previous models created in the US, the Alibaba holding entered the scene, which supposedly presented an even better model called Qwen. And this despite the fact that China was subject to sanctions by the US administration and it was not possible to legally export the most modern chips used to create artificial intelligence to it. And now the whole world is wondering how it is possible that the Chinese have built what they have just shown without being noticed. Or maybe they did not show something they have created that has even better parameters...

The groundbreaking Chinese artificial intelligence tool DeepSeek shows that the sanctions imposed by the US on the Middle Kingdom are too late and have limited effect. This is very bad news for Donald Trump.

As with any new fashion, the announcements of the creators of DeepSeek that they spent only $6 million on it and that it is several orders of magnitude more efficient in terms of energy consumption should be treated with a certain amount of caution.

Vladimir Putin is right: whoever achieves dominance over artificial intelligence will gain dominance over the world

One thing is certain, however: the global competition between the West and China depends on who wins the race for artificial intelligence. This is where the dispute over dominance, not just technological dominance, will be decided.

Vladimir Putin is right when he says that artificial intelligence is like a nuclear weapon and the country that wins in this field will rule the world.

Alibaba has just released its latest model of artificial intelligence, which can control computers and phones. In the shadow of DeepSeek, AI has been launched, which is to be an alternative to the best American solutions.

There is also no doubt that the race taking place today will determine the role of individual countries, not only for the coming years, but also for decades. It will decide who will be the creator of the most modern technologies that will govern civilizational, economic and everyday life development, who will be in the second league and who will remain on the complete periphery. And that is why our sense of national dignity was so strongly affected by the US decision to include Poland on the list of countries that will not be able to enjoy the import of the most technologically advanced chips.

American embargo on chips for Poland. Why are we talking so little about artificial intelligence in the election campaign?

However, what is most striking is the fact that although internet forums and social media platforms are full of discussions about the American embargo on chips for Poland, about new technologies, DeepSeek and Alibaba, these are threads that are almost absent from the ongoing election campaign. And yet our future depends on what place we will have in the global race for artificial intelligence. What is Rafał Trzaskowski, Karol Nawrocki, Szymon Hołownia, Sławomir Mentzen, Magdalena Biejat's idea for development in this area? Why does such a fundamental problem occupy so little space in their speeches?

Our place on the list of second-class countries with limited access to American chips should make us realize that for the countries from the core of the West we will never be their equals. The question is where will this awareness take us.

Recently, the candidates were bidding to oppose the EU agreement with Mercosur, which may hit poultry exporters. Yes, it is great that we are the leader in chicken and raspberry exports. But today we are deciding whether the only thing we have to offer will be agricultural products or whether we will take part in dividing the global economic cake, which will be based on new technologies."