US-China AI Gap Closes Rapidly
haider1 · x · 2026-07-17
The poster referenced Dario Amodei's previous claim that "Chinese models lag the US by 9–12 months," arguing that the current gap has already shrunk.
Comparing the release dates of Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 SOL, Opus 4.8, and GPT-5.5, they concluded that Chinese models might now only be "a few months" behind the frontier, with a very rapid pace of catching up.
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