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

https://mins.news/en/item/71926

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-24 07:53 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/china-vs-us-who-is-winning-the-ai-race-in-four-charts?traffic_source=rss

> 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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