arms race

noun

: a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons

broadly : an ever escalating race or competition

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Issues such as the global clean energy transition, the need to regulate social media and artificial intelligence, and the return of a nuclear arms race cry out for a return to great-power negotiations instead of dangerous escalation and unsustainable defense spending. —

Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024 There are several causes: a global populist surge, an AI arms race, shifting political alliances globally and domestically, and radical changes in how people worldwide get and share information. —

Axios, 12 Dec. 2024 The latest comments come as tech companies spar amid the escalating AI arms race, particularly between Microsoft and Google. —

Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024 Rather than focusing on the AGI arms race, founders will start to focus on building models that are almost as good as the top LLMs, but lightweight and thus ultra-fast and ultra-cheap. —

Kai-Fu Lee, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for arms race