Jun 2, 2026 – 5.00amA global race is under way to define the future of AI. Most of the attention is still fixed on scale: bigger models, more data, more compute, more infrastructure. The United States and China dominate that contest, while Europe is trying to shape it through regulation.Australia is unlikely to win on scale. But scale may not be the most important contest.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Barb HymanContributorBarb Hyman is the founder and CEO of Sapia.ai.Fetching latest articles