It’s in the middle of an effort to raise a gargantuan $7 billion funding round, which is expected to value OpenAI at $150 billion
China’s AI push has shifted from catching up at home to setting the rules abroad, melding chip self-reliance, state capital, and Digital-Silk-Road diplomacy into a single strategic engine.
Iran is notably a T4 Frontier, National Security nation with a clear strength in Hard Power and much weaker Soft and Economic Power profiles
Australia sits 19th on the Global Capability Frontier, with strong performance all around, but lacking a T1 role in any of the nine capability domains.
Russia is not racing to lead AI globally, it is engineering an AI system it can control, sustain, and deploy under pressure.