"China Has Caught Up to the Frontier"? Benchmark Chart Says It Hasn't Even Passed Microsoft

scaling01 · x · 2026-10-16

scaling01 mocks the claim that Chinese models have caught up to the frontier, quipping "they haven't even caught up to Microsoft." The attached benchmark chart shows MAI-Base-2 at 0.4162 versus Kimi-K3 at 0.4269, with a higher-scoring model cropped out of frame.

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