China is winning one AI race, the US another - but either might pull ahead
Both sides don't want to let their rival dominate. And the competition may yet be transformed further.
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""You could go on any sort of social network and there was just this flood of posts from people talking about all the different ways that they were using this new little text box that had appeared on the internet.""
— Parmy Olson , Executive
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