China
Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, Qwen: China reshuffles the deck
🧒 Discovery
Chinese robots have become as strong as the American ones, and often free: the race is back on!
📰 Essential
Open Chinese models now match the best American ones at a fraction of the cost, and dominate part of the global open-source leaderboards.
🔬 Expert
China's landscape is a chain rather than a single player: DeepSeek drives prices down with V4-Pro, Qwen gives Alibaba Cloud an open family strong in multimodal tasks, Kimi K3 tops the Arena front-end coding chart and Doubao leans on ByteDance's consumer distribution. One caveat: the rankings cited come from OpenCompass, a Chinese benchmark, and some of the "open" weights are still promised rather than published.