Mozilla report: China's open-weight AI models just 4 months behind US frontier, far cheaper
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-09-16
A Mozilla report covered by Tom's Hardware finds that after four years of export controls, China's open-weight AI models are only about 4 months behind frontier US offerings. They still lag on some benchmarks but are drastically cheaper to use.
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