A recheck says China’s AI frontier is still about 160 days behind the U.S.
xiaohu · x · 2026-07-20
The post asks whether Chinese AI models have caught up with the U.S. frontier and argues the gap is still meaningful.
- It references Moonshot’s Kimi K3 with a claimed 2.8T parameters.
- The author says some people interpreted recent Chinese releases as evidence that China had nearly matched the U.S., even suggesting a gap of only 45 days.
- Citing an independent analysis by Lisan al Gaib using Epoch’s Capability Index (ECI), the post claims the gap is closer to 160 days, or nearly six months.
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