Only seven months? That's great! That's awesome, specially for people who want to run local models...
"Since 2023, every model at the frontier of AI capabilities, as measured by the Epoch Capabilities Index, has been developed in the United States. Over that same period, Chinese models have trailed US capabilities by an average of seven months, with a minimum gap of four months and a maximum gap of 14.
This gap closely resembles the broader gap between proprietary and open-weight models. This is unsurprising since nearly all leading Chinese models are open-weight, while frontier US models remain closed."