The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US
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Summary
A new report by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has found that the field of AI is becoming increasingly competitive, global and multiformat, with many companies developing a range of AI models.
OpenAI and Google are still the frontrunners in the race to create bleeding-edge AI, but several other companies are closing in, including Meta’s open-weight Llama models, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI.
The report highlights that models from Chinese companies are now scoring similarly to their US counterparts, and that overall, Chinese companies publish more AI papers and file more AI-related patents than the US, with the US producing the most notable AI models.
It also indicates that the latest AI models tend to be open weight, meaning they can be downloaded and modified for free.
OpenAI plans to release an open-source model this summer, and Meta released its latest version, Llama 4, at the weekend.
