US-China AI Race Chart
The chart illustrates the narrowing gap in capabilities between Chinese and American AI models over recent years.
A very telling chart from a recent Bloomberg article.
The orange dots represent Chinese models, while the blue ones represent the USA. The Y-axis shows the weighted average across benchmarks such as GDPval-AA v2, τ³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, Humanity’s Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, SciCode, AA-Omniscience, and AA-LCR.
The frontier models are connected by a line. It is evident how much the gap in capabilities has narrowed over the past couple of years (and GLM-5.3 is not even on the chart). Many American leaders still claim that Chinese models lag by 6-9 months, but this information is clearly outdated. Not to mention the pricing.
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AnalysisThis chart highlights the rapid progress of Chinese AI models, which could significantly impact global competitiveness in the tech sector.
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