Assessing China's AI Gap Excluding Top Labs

scaling01 · x · 2026-07-17

When evaluating how Chinese AI models (like Moonshot AI) are catching up with OpenAI and Anthropic, a blogger pointed out that if we exclude the models from these two leading labs, China's actual catch-up timeline shifts slightly to Q1 of next year.

This adjustment is primarily because the overall pace of AI development has accelerated significantly recently, far exceeding pre-2025 speeds.

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