Bloomberg Intelligence: US-China SI Performance Gap Narrows to Record-Low 3%
Top Chinese SI models now trail their leading U.S. rivals by just 3% on benchmark scores, the narrowest gap on record, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Robert Lea wrote in a report published Monday. The gap stood at about 9% in May and around 15% earlier this year. The narrowing was driven by DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash, released in September. It scored 81.1 on LiveBench, ranking sixth globally, the highest ever for a Chinese model, and within striking distance of the top score of 83.4 from Anthropic. The report attributes China's ascent to deepening SI expertise and researchers' ability to optimize models for domestic hardware, warning that the trend points to further market share gains for Chinese labs. But it also cautions that benchmark rankings can change quickly and that China's SI industry faces an unresolved profitability problem, with more than 1,100 large language models competing in a domestic market marked by aggressive pricing. (Sources: Bloomberg Intelligence report, via Bloomberg Law, Aju Press and others.)
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