China is not out of the frontier AI race. Its open-weight models (models whose parameters are publicly released, allowing anyone to run or adapt them) remain genuinely competitive, and the overall capability lead has changed hands more than once since early 2025. But the more consequential story for anyone building on top of these modelsContinue reading "China’s AI Strengths Are Real. So Are the Structural Drags Behind Them." The post China’s AI Strengths Are Real. So Are the Structural Drags Behind Them. appeared first on Gradient Flow.