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China's AI Now Trails the US by Just 3%, Bloomberg Intelligence Finds

📅 Oct 5, 2026

✍️ Aamir Raza

China's AI Is Now Just 3% Behind

Bloomberg Intelligence says the US lead over Chinese AI models has shrunk to a record low.

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From 15% to 3% in Months

The gap sat at 15% earlier this year and 9% in May. It is now a record-low 3%, per senior analyst Robert Lea.

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DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash Did It

The September release ranked sixth globally on LiveBench — the highest-ranked Chinese model since DeepSeek's R1.

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Built on Home-Grown Hardware

China optimized models for domestic chips, raising fresh doubts about US export restrictions on Nvidia tech.

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The Trillion-Dollar Question

Chinese models are closing in on users too, just as Anthropic and OpenAI chase trillion-dollar IPOs on their edge.

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