We assigned major AI leaders a 'Mean Girls' character. Tell us if we got it right.

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Sam Altman and Elon Musk are trading barbs like the Plastics from "Mean Girls."Is Altman the Regina George of Silicon Valley? There's good arguments for both.Here's where the other big AI players fit in.The 2004 movie "Mean Girls" taught us that high school girl world is just as cutthroat as the animal kingdom. It turns out, the world of AI leaders isn't that different, either.Sam Altman and Elon Musk have been beefing like the movie's teenage characters this week — so much so that my colleague Henry Chandonnet took the time to cobble together a burn book of all the petty jabs and posts the AI players have slung at each other.But "Mean Girls" is more than just a useful analogy for the feuds between these billionaire CEOs. It can also help us model the power dynamics among all of the major AI players.If Silicon Valley is just like the fictional North Shore High School, then maybe Altman, Musk, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are its Plastics — the titular mean-girl clique consisting of Regina George (played by Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert), Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried), and Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan).

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