The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded--and China Is Closing In on the US

The year that ChatGPT went viral, only two US companies--OpenAI and Google--could boast truly cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Three years on, AI is no longer a two-horse race, nor is it purely an American one. A new report published today by Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) highlights just how crowded the field has become. OpenAI and Google are still neck and neck in the race to build bleeding-edge AI, the report shows. But several other companies are closing in.