The Real AI Race Is Not The One You Think

The race for AI has become the new black, the dominant obsession of our time, the trend no institution, company, or government wants to appear to miss. It is framed as progress, justified in the name of competitiveness, and presented as inevitable.

This race is viewed through the lens of big numbers: the number of parameters in a model, the number of users it gains each day, the number of chips deployed, the billions invested, the benchmarks surpassed, and the tasks automated. Together, these metrics feed a narrative in which the AI race is understood primarily through capability, performance, and large-scale use-case deployment. The simpler the use case, the better the story.

And it works. A self-fulfilling prophecy takes hold among all those who are not part of the frontier AI builders’ club. Individuals, firms, governments, and institutions converge around the same imperative: AI must be used, and used ever more effectively.

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