[braingravy]

Different markets are made of up different people, who (‘s leaders) may want different things…

The car market is a great example. The US market has decided it doesn’t want EVs from the biggest EV producer in the world (China), so people are indeed buying cars with older technology than what the new global standard has become thanks to China’s successfully state-sponsored EV market.

It may very well be that the US leads globally in AI, while some markets handicap access and development for internal reasons.