Open Models · first seen 14 October 2026, 13:35 UTC
Leaderboard: China open models trail US by 7 months
It quantifies the open-versus-closed gap that shapes policy and competition in AI.
A chart from whatmodel.sh, an open-source AI leaderboard, shows Chinese open-weight text models trail US closed frontier models by about seven months, based on 22,113 results across 987 benchmarks from 1,011 sources.