The Chinese models should stay close on a lag. They’re doing a ton of distillation that, realistically, I’m not sure the American frontiers can stop.

US labs got tough on "adversarial" distillation [1]. I suspect that's one of several reasons why Chinese big labs are lagging again.

[0] US AI firms team up in bid to counter Chinese 'distillation' (Apr 7) https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/us-ai-...