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A Mozilla report measured the gap between US frontier and Chinese open-weight models at 4.4 months. DIRECT_TEXT

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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.