If there was a James Bond film in 2025:

The villain would be an American populist and divisive former Tony Stark style billionaire who runs for president to steer US back to its previous hegemony but wait! it’s a misdirection and is actually bankrolled as a Manchurian Candidate for a mysterious Chinese hedge fund that no one has heard of that actually has recently trained an AGI level model on significantly less GPUs than everyone thought was required but has kept it a secret for the past year or so - which is run by a gender fluid Taiwanese megalomaniac who used to run a startup accelerator but since has become disillusioned with EA and gone full authoritarian and is planning to use the AGI model to retake all of the world starting with Taiwan and now Bond must stop them somehow

Too high brow for a Bond film. In reality it would be a new entry in the xXx franchise and be financed by Intel as a way to disparage the companies that have since usurped them

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