Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?

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Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?

The Decoder · Aug 20, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is the same: a model lead can't be defended. This issue looks at what can. The article Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?…

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