🤖 US-China AI race tightens as Beijing narrows gap with Washington

📍 China has significantly reduced performance gap in frontier AI models, while US retains advantages in advanced chips, computing infrastructure and top AI talent

⚠ US remains dominant in cutting-edge semiconductors, but China is expanding domestic alternatives, data centers, industrial AI capabilities and patent activity

📊 Stanford’s AI Index puts the gap between the leading US and Chinese AI models at just 2.7%