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State-backed efforts to catch up with frontier models are doomed
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State-backed efforts to catch up with frontier models are doomed

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

A new model has narrowed the gap with America

A new model is forcing a reassessment

America has better technology. But will China adopt it more quickly?

How worried should OpenAI and other labs be?