China narrows AI gap as U.S. guards frontier lead
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China is narrowing the AI performance gap through cheaper, capable open models and growing adoption by Western firms, but the U.S. still dominates frontier compute, chips, and funding. The race is not settled: China is building domestic chip capacity and expanding influence in developing markets, while export controls and access to advanced compute keep the U.S. ahead on cutting-edge models and deployment scale.
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