Anyone wonder why americans lag so far behind in the open LLM market?

I mean , DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax -- the list of Chinese LLM's is such a long freaking list. As American's -- why don't we feel .. a little funny .. about being so far behind? Chinese entrepreneurs are peneuring like crazy and American's .. just obsess on .. what ?

update -- already I'm starting to see some clear answers. American's are putting money ahead of technology. Completely understandable.

second update -- I asked "why can't we have american AI as good as or better than the chinese" and BY FAR the number one most supported comment? "Have you even thought of shareholder value!?" . We .. America , are so fucked.