Chinese companies explicitly have a rule not to release things that are ahead of SOTA (I’ve seen comments of the form “trying to convince my boss this isn’t SOTA so we can release it” on github repos). So “publicly release Chinese models are always slightly behind American ones” doesn’t prove much.
Chinese companies explicitly have a rule not to release things that are ahead of SOTA (I’ve seen comments of the form “trying to convince my boss this isn’t SOTA so we can release it” on github repos). So “publicly release Chinese models are always slightly behind American ones” doesn’t prove much.