Global Competition

Nvidia’s $2B Bet on Reflection AI Shakes Up the Global AI Race

Reflection AI’s $2B Funding Frenzy It’s official: Reflection AI has secured one of the largest funding rounds ever for a young tech startup – $2 billion in fresh capital led by Nvidia techmeme.com. The New York Times first reported the blockbuster raise, valuing the one-year-old company at roughly $8 billion techmeme.com. To put that in perspective, Reflection was valued at only ~$545 million as recently as March techmeme.com. In other words, its paper valuation has leapt nearly 15× in just six months, a virtually unheard-of jump. The NYT called this “the latest sign of investor fervor” around AI, even as

9 October 2025

AI Superpower Showdown: U.S. vs. China vs. Europe – Who’s Winning the Global AI Race?

AI Research & Academic Output: Publications, Patents and Breakthroughs China has emerged as the global research powerhouse in AI by volume. A 2025 analysis shows China’s AI publication output in 2024 matched the combined output of the US, UK, and EU digital-science.com. Chinese researchers not only publish the most papers, they also garner the largest share of citations (over 40% globally) – a sign that China leads in influential AI research digital-science.com. The country’s academic ecosystem for AI is vast: China boasts some 30,000 active AI researchers and hundreds of institutions conducting AI research, far dwarfing other nations digital-science.com. It

22 September 2025

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The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

About the 2025 AI Power Index – Methodology and Significance Observer’s 2025 A.I. Power Index is a curated ranking of the 100 most influential individuals steering the future of artificial intelligence. According to the Observer, the list spans “CEOs, researchers, policymakers to investors shaping the future of artificial intelligence” observer.com. Unlike lists that focus solely on company metrics or academic citations, the Power Index takes a broad view of “power” in AI, blending technical impact with business and policy influence. Selections were made by the Observer’s editorial team (with input from industry experts and even public nominations via email) to

19 September 2025

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Global AI Powerhouses Clash: China’s AI Revolution Challenges U.S. Tech Dominance

DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen now rival top U.S. models in capability, and DeepSeek costs about $0.55 per million tokens versus roughly $15 for OpenAI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more than 910 million downloads, while DeepSeek has about 125 million. HSBC and Standard Chartered began testing DeepSeek, Saudi Aramco deployed it in its main data center, and Amazon, Microsoft, and Google now offer DeepSeek on their cloud platforms. DeepSeek was trained on Nvidia H800 GPUs, which were not blocked by export bans, yet its performance matches models trained on newer hardware. Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen was open-sourced, spawning over 100,000 variant models,

3 July 2025

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