China has actually closed the model performance gap, and that means that the quality of the models coming from China are becoming at a neck and neck pace with the United States.
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, put it plainly at Davos earlier this year. AI is transformative and inevitable. It will raise productivity and reshape industries. But it will also eliminate jobs, neither gradually nor neatly.
The current collision between the Department of Defense and Anthropic over whether Anthropic's A.I. models should be bound by ethical constraints or made available for all uses the Pentagon might have in mind raises significant concerns about the future of AI governance.