The AI still has a great has a great tendancy to create multiple cities near my starting locations. It creates 3 or more cities very quickly - I have no idea how it can do that given the current limitations on city building but it does. This means that if I don't spend all of my efforts on getting an early city building unit out in the world that I am cut off. I like city building but not as the entire game focus. I am using a large size world so it isn't overcrowding on a tiny world.
I have seen this AI tendancy in earlier parts of the beta and commented on it then. It has reappeared in the latest (0.92) program update.
There has got to be some way to stop this as it cuts off any ability to focus on the rest of the game.