China rapidly closing gap in race to human-level AI, report says

China’s Deepseek achieved exceptionally high performance while requiring far fewer computational resources than many leading LLMs in the US - (Getty)

China is rapidly catching up with the US in the development of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, according to a new report.

Performance differences between leading AI models built in each country shrank to “near parity” in 2024, Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index Report concluded, while China led in terms of AI publications and patents.