See clocks of diffusion.
Clocks of diffusion The three rates, measured in chapter 1, at which a frontier lead spreads to rivals. They are frontier turnover from model to model at the American frontier, capability catch-up by open-weight models, and the national frontier lag of China’s frontier behind America’s. Chapter 1.
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- Dated test Chapters 1 and 12, the second route
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “National frontier lag.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/national-frontier-lag (accessed 2026-11-01).
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@misc{dryburgh-national-frontier-lag-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{National frontier lag}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/national-frontier-lag},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}