arms race
noun
: a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons
broadly
: an ever escalating race or competition
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Companies invested heavily in building out proprietary Unix systems in a similar compute performance arms race to today’s AI arms race.
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Liam Collins, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Nvidia is still the only game in town for companies spending hundreds of billions in the AI arms race—and both the firm’s customers and investors are well aware of that.
—Greg McKenna, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
When Microsoft launched Copilot, then called Bing, early last year, it was seen as a leader among its big tech peers in the AI arms race.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Gill considers this moment as our narrow shot to avoid another Cold War-style arms race with AI.
—Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
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Liam Collins, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Nvidia is still the only game in town for companies spending hundreds of billions in the AI arms race—and both the firm’s customers and investors are well aware of that.
—Greg McKenna, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
When Microsoft launched Copilot, then called Bing, early last year, it was seen as a leader among its big tech peers in the AI arms race.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Gill considers this moment as our narrow shot to avoid another Cold War-style arms race with AI.
—Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Arms race.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arms%20race. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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