Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023
4 months ago
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- Chinese AI models have trailed US models by an average of 7 months since 2023.
- The gap ranges from 4 to 14 months, with Chinese models being open-weight and US models proprietary.
- The Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) measures the performance gap, with Chinese models first surpassing GPT-4 in May 2024.
- No Chinese model has yet surpassed OpenAI’s o3 model, released in April 2025.