India, Jan. 22 -- 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.

Unlike WEF 2025, where much of the AI chatter revolved aroun...