Bloomberg Intelligence: top Chinese models trail American ones by just 3% in benchmark scores, down from a 9% gap a month ago
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The race is getting tighter: strong models are appearing in several countries at once, and bans are not managing to slow it down.
According to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Robert Lee, after the release of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash the gap between Chinese and American models in benchmark scores narrowed to 3%, from 9% in May and 15% at the start of the year. According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scored 81.1 on LiveBench versus 83.4 for an Anthropic model; meanwhile only three Chinese models are in the ranking's top fifteen. The narrowing gap raises the question of how effective American chip export restrictions are.
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