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September 21, 2026
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Chinese Open-Weight Models Now Lead US Rivals by 2-6 Months, Congressional Briefing Shows

AI researcher Nathan Lambert's prepared testimony to Congress details how Chinese open-weight models have overtaken American ones on both downloads and capability benchmarks since mid-2025. The gap has widened to roughly 1.6 billion additional Hugging Face downloads and a near-double-digit lead on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.