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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

China has ‘nearly erased’ America’s lead in AI—and the flow of tech experts moving to the U.S. is slowing to a trickle, Stanford report says

A group of young girls look at a robot. (Credit: Wang Gang—China News Service/VCG/Getty Images)

China has taken a bite out of the U.S.’s lead in artificial intelligence.

The country has nearly closed its gap to the U.S. in AI bot performance, while continuing to best global competition in number of patents, publications, and rollout of robots, according to the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) 2026 AI Index report released this week.

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