US AI gap with China questioned after study
A US government-backed evaluation claims China’s leading AI model lags the frontier by eight months, but experts are challenging the methodology and conclusions.

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A US government-backed evaluation claims China’s leading AI model lags the frontier by eight months, but experts are challenging the methodology and conclusions.
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