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CSIS documents near-frontier parity by Chinese open-weight models and explains why narrowing separation affects monetization and enterprise lock-in, supporting the bounded interpretive claim. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: What to Know About Chinese AI Models · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:06c6207fa3d71080897c63cd09826cfc5707ef863316ed1bb931dbc1c7fb6c4a

Chinese models are now close enough to the frontier that they can compete with U.S. models in many real-world tasks. ... As the gap between U.S. closed-source models and Chinese open-weight models gets narrower ... open-weight models ... [make] monetization ... highly difficult.