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Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months, according to a Mozilla report. That explains why many companies are shifting to the…

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Published2 d ago (Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:41 GMT)
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AuthorJeremy Hsu