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Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?: Chinese models Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now close...

To the best US models, eroding the West's frontier lead. Western labs blame distillation, but this Frontier Radar issue argues a model lead can no longer be defended regardless.

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Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?: Chinese models Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now close to the best US models, eroding the West's frontier lead. Western labs blame distillation, but this Frontier Radar issue argues a model lead can no longer be defended regardless.