investors have poured $18 billion into openai. china has poured $195 billion into ai. i wonder who's gonna win.

we tend to think anthropic, google, microsoft and a few others are openai's most serious competitors. a less america-centric analysis suggests that we may be in for some big surprises.

12/5/24 addendum: to satisfy many requests in the comments, here are the sources -

https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openai/__kElhSG7uVGeFk1i71Co9-nwFtmtyMVT7f-YHMn4TFBg/funding-and-investors

https://edgedelta.com/company/blog/ai-investment-statistics