The global artificial intelligence race between the US and China is deepening, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman preparing to travel to Washington to brief Trump administration officials and members of Congress on the company's next-generation flagship models, while open-source forces from China build competitive strength through low-cost inference and industrial deployment. OpenAI's Head of Global Affairs Chris Lehane confirmed that company executives will meet with US administration officials and lawmakers next week, focusing on the upcoming next-generation model family and its potential impact on the job market. "We support establishing AI standards at the national level, or creating uniform regulatory rules across states," Lehane said. This move comes as the US Department of Commerce prepares to roll out a voluntary review framework in the coming weeks, allowing developers to provide the government up to 30 days of advance access before public model release. Altman has previously disclosed that OpenAI's upcoming product pipeline includes GPT-4.5 and GPT-5, with GPT-5 viewed as a critical step toward artificial general intelligence. According to the US Chamber of Commerce, over 1,100 AI-related bills were introduced in the US Congress in 2025. The report highlights that Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters, has essentially matched top US systems in multiple independent benchmarks.