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Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor of The Economist, began the session by underscoring the significance of understanding changes in AI technologies, especially with the recent emergence of reasoning models. These advancements hinge on marrying pre-existing paradigms of machine learning, where models learn from vast amounts of data and feedback, with new techniques that enable AI to reason and solve complex problems more effectively. Dario Amade, CEO and founder of Anthropic, shared insights highlighting how these reasoning models—and the new, powerful, lower-cost AI models from companies like China's DeepSeek—may not just influence the AI landscape but redefine it.