China Plays the Long Game in AI While US Chases Superintelligence: Brookings

The global AI race may not be unfolding the way policymakers in Washington had hoped. A new Brookings Institution report, published Monday, says the U.S. has framed the AI race as one driven toward artificial general intelligence, while Chinese companies are prioritizing efficiency, global adoption, and embedding the technology into real-world systems. “The U.S. is obsessed with the race to AGI or artificial general intelligence,” the report said. “American tech companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into new data centers in the hopes of creating AI systems that can match or exceed human-level performance across most cognitive tasks.”…