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Tracking humanity's progress toward superintelligent AI

Live Analysis

Minutes to Midnight

Confidence

75%

Current Analysis

“The developments show steady infrastructure progress rather than capability breakthroughs. The shift to custom ASICs and China's alternative chip architectures suggest the field is diversifying approaches rather than achieving transformative advances.”

Key Factors

Custom AI chip development accelerating with ASICs projected to outpace GPUs by 2026
Growing focus on agentic AI systems but implementation challenges remain significant
China's 'overtaking on curves' strategy showing results in quantum computing and chip design

Last updated: May 27, 2026, 7:00 AM

AI Capabilities

Current assessment scores

100→

🧠Reasoning

88→

💬Language

87→

💻Coding

86→

👁️Multimodal

68→

🤖Agency

61→

🔬Science

50→

🦾Robotics

Weighted Average80%

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Key Factors

•Custom AI chip development accelerating with ASICs projected to outpace GPUs by 2026
•Growing focus on agentic AI systems but implementation challenges remain significant
•China's 'overtaking on curves' strategy showing results in quantum computing and chip design