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The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US
New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France.
In the US, the fiercest competition comes from Meta’s open weight Llama models; Anthropic, a company founded by former OpenAI employees; and Elon Musk’s xAI. DeepSeek’s debut was also a surprise because the US government has repeatedly sought to limit China’s access to the computer chips needed to build the most advanced AI. As for reaching the much ballyhooed goal of AGI, the report highlights how some AI models already surpass human abilities on benchmarks that test specific skills, including image classification, language comprehension, and mathematical reasoning.
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