In the AI race the United States leads in private investment, computing infrastructure, and the production of leading AI models, while China leads in research publications, citations, quantity of patent grants, and industrial robotics. Although the United States initially held a substantial lead in generative AI during the global boom that began in late 2022, Chinese models rapidly caught up. By March 2026 Stanford University concluded that the performance gap had “effectively closed.”
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