What Comes Next with Mira Rapp-Hooper
The world order that defined the last three decades has unraveled. What replaces it will shape the future of business, technology, and power. In this podcast, Mira Rapp-Hooper explores the forces driving this transformation and their implications. Each episode pulls one thread of today’s geopolitical upheaval to reveal how governments and businesses are adapting, and what it means for you.
Mira brings a rare mix of policy experience and business insight. From senior roles at the White House to her current work at The Asia Group, she’s helped navigate the challenges of global competition. Now, she shares sharp, practical lessons drawn from her own experience and conversations with the world’s leading strategists.
What Comes Next with Mira Rapp-Hooper
Colin Kahl on The Myth of the AI Race
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Is “the AI race” a myth? Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Colin Kahl argues that rather than a winner-take-all AI race, we’re heading for an AI bipolarity, where the U.S. leads in some aspects, like frontier models and AI as a Service (AIaaS), while China scales “good enough” infrastructure and robotics. Colin and Mira dig into compute politics – the Nvidia H200 decision, export controls, and the risk of a U.S.-enabled Chinese stack – and what enterprise adoption means for productivity and jobs. Finally, Colin shares his insights on the situation unfolding in and with Iran.
What Comes Next with Mira Rapp-Hooper is produced by Rivan Dwiastono, executive produced by Lauren Dueck, with editorial input from Prashant Jha. It contains music by Cody Martin via Soundstripe.
What Comes Next is a production of The Asia Group, and is powered by TAG AI, TAG's geopolitical decision engine for businesses.