Chapter 1: A global race between giant corporations and nation states.- Chapter 2: Tech giants as intellectual monopolies.- Chapter 3: Tech giants' corporate innovation systems.- Chapter 4: Tech giants and Artificial Intelligence as a Technological Innovation System.- Chapter 5: Amazon and Microsoft: Convergence and the emerging AI technology trajectory.- Chapter 6: China's catching-up process and its emergence as a potential lead country in Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7: AI policies and politics in China and the US between techno-globalism and techno-nationalism.- Chapter 8: Alternative futures and what is to be done.