Microsoft offers U.S. a roadmap to win AI race vs. China

The United States needs an overarching national strategy to ensure it prevails in the global AI race — focusing on R&D funding, education, and workforce development, and ensuring that American tech companies aren’t slowed down by “heavy-handed regulations,” Microsoft President Brad Smith (above) wrote in a post today. Smith also said Microsoft will spend $80 billion on datacenters to train and deploy AI in its current fiscal year, which began in July.

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