Just a few days ago, a senior Anthropic executive claimed the US still held a 6 to 9 month lead in frontier AI models, while calling Chinese model distillation adversarial. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 just beat Claude Fable 5 on Frontend Code Arena. So the last cope the US had about ahead in the AI race is now gone. https://gizmodo.com/china-just-dropped-another-bomb-on-americas-frontier-ai-companies-2000786670
Just a few days ago, a senior Anthropic executive claimed the US still held a 6 to 9 month lead in frontier AI models, while calling Chinese model distillation adversarial. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 just beat Claude Fable 5 on Frontend Code Arena. So the last cope the US had about ahead in the AI race is now gone. https://gizmodo.com/china-just-dropped-another-bomb-on-americas-frontier-ai-companies-2000786670
The funniest part though is this chart.
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/inside-the-ai-index-12-takeaways-from-the-2026-report