Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source models, highlighting China’s progress in closing the gap with leading US developers.
Qwen3-max-preview – Alibaba’s largest AI model to date – and Kimi-K2-0905 were both released on Friday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
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The achievement stands in stark contrast to a year ago, when no Chinese models were represented in LMArena’s top 10 leaderboards, which is based on user feedback. Users submit prompts to two anonymous models and vote for the one that provides the better answer. The models’ identities are then revealed.
