China’s Open-Weights Surge Shrinks the AI Frontier Gap to Months
Artificial Analysis’ Q2 2025 highlights show the US still leads the overall AI frontier, but China has narrowed the gap to under three months while taking clear leadership in open-weights models. DeepSeek and Alibaba are driving rapid iteration and global developer adoption, reinforced by massive consumer app distribution and a growing push for compute sovereignty led by Huawei.