TechChina vs US: Who is winning the AI race, in four charts

The US leads China by a wide margin in AI spending and computing capacity, holding nearly three-quarters of global AI computing power. China is ahead in research, its models are closing in on US systems, and Chinese companies dominate OpenRouter’s usage-based rankings, partly because their models are cheaper and often open-weight.

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