Faced with less compute and fewer tokens, Chinese AI labs are tightening the gap with the U.S. by just being more efficient

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Federal agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of training on American models to do this, but analysts say it’s not the only explanation…

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  • Reported by Fortune and published Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:00:00 UTC.

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