Technological competitions between great powers have been used in the past to test the ideological superiority of great powers, while also creating a non-military area of competition. While the Space Race is the most well-known of the technological competitions, the United States and China are currently engaged in a new competition: the Artificial Intelligence Race. The ongoing AI Race shares many similarities with the Space Race. This paper explores how globalization has impacted technological competitions through comparing the two competitions, finding that the addition of new actors has been the most notable shift in technological competition.