NBER conference data: US dominated genAI last year, not today
professor_ajay · x · 2026-09-24
Reporting from an NBER conference on AI in China, where economist Dan Trefler presented token-usage data across models: the US dominated the genAI market last year, but the picture has changed today (the specific comparison is in the attached chart).
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