“The US continues to lead on model capabilities, and US models also have maintained a meaningful lead in science and more complex reasoning,” said the post written by OpenAI’s intelligence and investigations team.
“What has changed more decisively is depth and deployability: China now has a broad field of near-frontier models, many of them open-weight and aggressively priced, making them easier to deploy across industries and government systems.”
That assessment reflected how the export of home-grown technologies formed a major part of Beijing’s AI strategy.
According to OpenAI’s post, open-sourcing AI models “in weeks, rather than months” helped Chinese tech firms, including Alibaba Cloud , drive global adoption and made these products the default systems for many local and overseas developers.