The US Is Winning the AI Race

Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by pj_mukh on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:18AM (#48122261)

Yes, and it's doing so primarily because of immigrant nerds, H1B's and F1 bros who chose America and may not have this avenue in the future. Potentially, making this the last race USA wins.

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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by akrylov on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:32AM (#48122459)

It's a myth. IBM, Xerox, HP, DEC was innovating long before H1B's.

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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by pj_mukh on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:41AM (#48122585)

There is nothing in the H1B program that makes these immigrants different from the immigrants that ran IBM, Xerox and HP. Other than the country of origin of course.

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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by akrylov on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:50AM (#48122705)

Jobs, Wozniak, Gates - it's a myth that you need poor migrants pulling themselves by their bootstraps to innovate. Sometimes a nazi scientist like Wernher von Braun is what it takes.

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