** Financial Times Book of the Year 2024**

Supremacy by Parmy Olson delves into the fierce rivalry between OpenAI and DeepMind, two of the world's most influential AI companies, as they battle for dominance in artificial intelligence. 

The book traces the evolution of AI from the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a revolutionary chatbot that reshaped digital interaction, to the ongoing competition between OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, and DeepMind’s CEO, Demis Hassabis.

Both leaders share an almost religious commitment to creating superintelligent AI. Still, their companies operate under tech giants—Microsoft and Google—whose commercial interests could shape AI’s future in troubling ways.

Olson provides an insider’s look at how these companies balance innovation with ethical concerns while navigating the pressures of profit-driven expansion. She warns that AI’s biggest threat is not its potential for superintelligence but its unchecked deployment in flawed, biased, and exploitative ways across industries, media, and education. With exclusive access to high-ranking sources, Olson presents a gripping exposé of AI’s rapid rise, the hidden conflicts shaping its future, and its profound implications for society. 

Supremacy, winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award, is a cautionary tale about the unchecked power of AI’s creators and the technology’s far-reaching consequences.
Given the latest tech wars erupting between China and the US, we thought this was a timely book to feature.
 

"Thought-provoking...clear and well-researched" - The Wall Street Journal
"Astonishing... [Olson has] exclusive access to a network of high-ranking sources" - Financial Times

"Olson's punchy prose and eye for detail brings her subjects to vivid life." - Publisher's Weekly

"Exquisitely timely" - Los Angeles Times