Artificial Analysis, a leading analyst firm, recently released its Q2 2025China AI status quoReportThe Chinese AI labs are rapidly closing the gap with the U.S. in cutting-edge modeling technology, and have even surpassed the U.S. in some areas," he said.
in,DeepSeek Its latest model, R1-0528, has been a standout performer, jumping to second place on the charts behind OpenAI and alongside flagship models from Google, Anthropic, Meta, and others.
The report shows that China's AI ecosystem is showing a high degree of vigor and diversity. More than a dozen Chinese labs, including DeepSeek, Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, Dark Side of the Moon, Wisdom Spectrum, StepLeap, Xiaomi, Baichuan, MiniMax, and ZeroOneWorld, have launched a number of models that have excelled in a number of benchmarks, demonstrating a sustained capacity for innovation.
It is interesting to note that several Chinese labs are actively adopting the Open Weights strategy. In November 2024, Ali released the QwQ-32B preview, which is considered to be the first time that China has achieved an overtaking of the United States in terms of open-weighted large-scale models, and this lead was then further consolidated by DeepSeek's R1 series.