Rapid artificial intelligence innovation could speed up as AI giants like Elon Musk's xAI with Grok 3 join the race, said Tsinghua University Professor Xue Lan, who's the director of the Institute for AI International Governance. He cites DeepSeek's breakthrough, reached with open-source efficiency over excessive computational power, which bodes well for global collaboration. Despite U.S. chip restrictions, Xue said these challenges have driven Chinese companies to innovate, revealing the counterproductive nature of such tech embargoes.