About the author
Parmy Olson is a technology journalist and author whose reporting has covered online movements, mobile technology, and artificial intelligence. She previously served as Forbes's London bureau chief and later wrote about technology for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Opinion.
Supremacy follows OpenAI and DeepMind through the ambitions of Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. Olson treats the modern AI race as an institutional story: research ideals meeting the capital, computing infrastructure, and competitive incentives of Microsoft and Google.
Where to start
Start with Supremacy. It traces how two AI laboratories became tied to Big Tech and how that changed the race they believed they were running.
