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AI models built outside the US and China are nearly a year behind

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Models from labs outside the US and China have trailed the US frontier by roughly ten months since 2024, with a median gap of 9.9 months, according to a study using Village's LLM Atlas, which scores 857 models on one capability scale from public benchmarks.

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