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The United States hosts a fierce competition to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—a term as ill-defined as AI itself. Key companies include OpenAI, founded in 2015 to democratize AI research; Google’s DeepMind; Meta; Microsoft; and startups like Anthropic. International contenders include Chinese firms like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Huawei, emphasizing practical product deployment over ideological pursuits.