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There are essentially two topics dominating conversations in Davos this week: AI and President Donald Trump.
The tech presence at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting has always been sizable, but this year it feels bigger, louder, and more embedded in the Swiss alpine town.
Anthropic, a little-known AI lab just a few years ago, for the first time set up its own office on the main drag — a clear sign of how aggressively it’s courting enterprise customers. Google, meanwhile, hosted its press event for the fourth straight year, drawing what appeared to be its largest crowd yet.
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, said the path to human-level artificial general intelligence is becoming clearer — but still has “missing ingredients.” He put AGI at five to ten years away, longer than timelines floated by peers at Anthropic and OpenAI, where executives have suggested it could arrive as early as 2026 or 2027. ...
If Davos is any guide, AI’s future still looks enormous — but could be far less linear than the confident forecasts shared on these same stages 12 months ago. ...
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