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entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Stanford HAI"
aliases: ["Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI", "Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence"]
source_timestamps: ["§ The Leaders."]
tags: ["research-institute", "ai-policy"]
related: ["claim-us-china-ai-gap-closed"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-foci-75-fragmenting-digital-economy"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/what-a-fragmenting-digital-economy-means-for-global-competition"
sourceTitle: "What a Fragmenting Digital Economy Means for Global Competition"
---
# Stanford HAI

**Stanford HAI** is Stanford University's **Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence**, cited in the source as confirming that the AI model-performance gap between the U.S. and China has "effectively closed" (see [[claim-us-china-ai-gap-closed]]).

> **Enrichment caution:** Stanford HAI's **AI Index** does document China rivaling or surpassing the U.S. in research-publication volume, but no major HAI publication explicitly states the *overall* performance gap has "effectively closed" — HAI describes the gap as *narrowing* in specific dimensions. The strong phrasing is the article authors', not a direct HAI conclusion.