- present tense form of surpass (3rd person singular).
surpasses
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While debates about building AI that surpasses human intelligence, flashy new gadgets and AI spending tend to dominate tech events, tech talks at last week’s Oakland Tech Week often had a different vibe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
All of this rests on assumptions that the current technology, built on so-called large-language models, will develop into artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical computer system that surpasses human intelligence in all domains.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
In an “extreme” scenario, AI surpasses human productivity across most knowledge-work tasks, performing nearly all of them autonomously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The amount surpasses the 944 billion won awarded in the divorce settlement between SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won -- whose business also owns chip giant SK hynix -- and his ex-wife, Roh Soh-yeong.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The organization surpasses itself in that kind of thing.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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