Chinese entrants challenge U.S. AI dominance
U.S. chip sanctions have failed to slow AI development in China, with a flurry of new releases and a “DeepSeek death zone” appearing to force U.S. AI models to either beat the Chinese on price or performance
NEW CHINESE AI MODELS  CHALLENGING U.S. DOMINANCE
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Claude Fable 5
Kimi K3 
Qwen3.8-Max
GLM-5.2
DeepSeek v4 Flash
Anthropic’s flagship model
Moonshot AI
Alibaba
Z.ai
DeepSeek
0
20
40
60
60
57
53
51
50
2
3
1
COST AND CAPABILITY
DeepSeek
Anthropic
OpenAI
Google
SpaceX
Others
Intelligence Index
25
50
75
Performance:Above 50 on Intelligence Index
Price: Below $0.03 per task
DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731
Index 50
Cost $0.03
Claude Opus 5 (max)
Index 61
Cost $2.34
Claude Fable 5
60 / $3.15
Grok 4.5
Qwen3.7
GLM-5.2
GPT-5.6 Sol
Kimi K3
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Nemotron 3 Ultra (Nvidia)
gpt-oss-120b
DEATH ZONE
Mid-market rivals under pressure to slash prices or spend more to build smarter models
Cost per task
Source: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
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