Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus is professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University, and founded a machine learning company – Geometric Intelligence – that was later bought by Uber. He writes his AI Substack here.

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Has China pulled ahead in the race for AI supremacy?

The race for ‘AI supremacy’ is over, at least for now, and the US didn’t win. Over the last few weeks, two companies in China released three impressive papers that annihilated any pretence that the US was decisively ahead. In late December, a company called DeepSeek, apparently initially built for quantitative trading rather than large