For years, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry globally has been stuck in a peculiar cycle. A Chinese AI company announces a new model. Of course, powerful and capable. Silicon Valley reacts in disbelief. And scrambles to find ways to blunt the reaction. This isn’t a one time thing. It seems to happen more than once, every quarter. No surprise then, that the American AI companies are now trying to put up a brave front. And they can’t seem to get that right, either. A new powerful AI model (or two, or three) from China is no longer an anomaly.China foresaw…