WEF 2026: AGI timelines, AI chips, and a race no one can stop

If there were any lingering doubts about whether the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies agree on where AI is headed — or how fast it should get there — those doubts were dispelled at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026. During The Day After AGI session in Davos, Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, laid out starkly different views on AGI timelines, geopolitical as well as societal risks, and whether the AI race can — or should — be slowed. This is crucial since Google DeepMind and Anthropic develop two of the most capable AI models at this time, Gemini and Claude, respectively.