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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.

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Read it at Reddit →

Coverage: 2 sources, in order

  1. Reddit: The AI race: China's open-weight models trail US closed models by just 7 months
  2. Startup Fortune: China's open AI models now trail the US frontier by just seven months

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